10 Best Simultaneous WWE/WCW Heavyweight Champions
6. Bret Hart/Vader - 1992
Bret Hart's first run as WWE Champion reflected an enormous philosophical shift for the company away from...enormous philosophy-free main events. 'The Hitman' spent every match reframing what it meant to carry the industry's richest prize, wrestling intense and competitive matches in place of battles purely defined by who the biggest baddest f*cker was.
In Vader, WCW, somehow, found a way to marry both diverse .
Thrilling feuds with Sting, Cactus Jack and several others within the company's underrated roster at the time positioned the deadly super-heavyweight as a new kind of unstoppable wrestling force. It perhaps speaks to every single cliche about Vince McMahon's fascination with muscles and airport tests above every other metric in wrestling, because neither of them were drawing either. Business may have been in the bin, but the workrate went from the outhouse to the penthouse with these two sharing the top spots.
It was a genuine shame it took until Vader's WWE arrival in 1996 for the two to go to war, particularly as the rechristened 'Mastodon' was past his physical prime by then.