10 Greatest Things About WCW’s Final Year
1. Lance Storm
The hands-down greatest thing about WCW's final year? That's an easy answer: Lance Storm, period.
Having departed ECW, Storm's WCW debut came on the 19 June 2000 episode of Nitro. Barely a matter of weeks later, the Canadian grappler had amassed a ludicrous amount of championship gold and was one of the most prominent parts of WCW TV.
During that time, the one-time Thrillseeker picked up the United States Title, the Cruiserweight Title, and the Hardcore Title - going on to rename those belts as the Canadian Heavyweight Championship, the 100 kg and Under Championship, and the Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title, respectively.
Heading up Team Canada, Storm even got to mix it up at the top of the card as he had a couple of unsuccessful shots at the World Heavyweight Championship at that point held by Booker T. Simply put, you couldn't put on an episode of latter-day Nitro, or at times Thunder, without seeing several segments centred around Lance Storm.
One of the great 'what ifs?' about WCW's dying days is whether or not Lance Storm would've been given Big Gold if WCW had carried on. Given the trajectory of his WCW run, it seems like a no-brainer that Storm would've been the World Champ sooner rather than later - but sadly that wasn't to be.