10 Best Simultaneous WWE/WCW Heavyweight Champions
1. Stone Cold Steve Austin/Goldberg - 1998
Wrestling was never, ever hotter.
This wasn't just a time for WWE, nor WCW, nor even Paul Heyman's ECW as it tiptoed away from the fringes but towards the mainstream. This was a time for every fan of every type suddenly finding themselves with many others to discuss it with - professional wrestling was a cultural phenomenon and Stone Cold Steve Austin and Goldberg were the key new faces of this revolution.
The matches - Austin's because of injuries and Goldberg's because of his inexperience - weren't on par with the generation that followed them (nor, in the case of 'The Rattlesnake', everything he produced post-1999 neck surgery exit), but it didn't matter when the companies and the men themselves reviewed the receipts.
Taking out the two men that had driven the prior boom in Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan, the transcendent figures offered something dynamic and deadly in equal measure, and were conveniently styled similarly for all the dream match graphics of the day.
They sold every ticket, attracted every set of eyes, and elevated the prestige of the legendary titles they held for a scores of new supporters their runs brought in.