10 Best Simultaneous WWE/WCW Heavyweight Champions

3. Bret Hart/Randy Savage - 1996

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Because he was fundamentally just a really good man when it came to the purity of pro wrestling, Randy Savage often used his commentary position within WWE to espouse his "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" for Bret Hart, regardless of his position on the card. Unable to put him over in the best way he could bell-to-bell, the Macho Man instead used his voice in the booth to go the extra mile.

Three years after he was deemed too old to simply do it in an actual f*cking match, Randy Savage was atop WCW as its money-drawing World Heavyweight Champion. A feud with Ric Flair that spanned from late-1995 into the first quarter of 1996 saw a spike at the box office for WCW, not least when the company smartly brought Elizabeth out of retirement to again feature in the violent brawls between them.

'The Best There Is, The Best There Was and The Best There Ever Will Be' was in something of a minor crisis at the time, thanks mostly to his realisation of his spot on the card. Hart had been demoted to second fiddle even with the strap as he prepared to drop it to Shawn Michaels. Months before both babyfaces felt decades out of time with the rise of the New World Order, 1993 was suddenly a long way back in the rear view for both proud champions and their storied rivals.

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