Sadly, Sting and Goldberg werent buried alone. The best thing about WCW programming for years and years was the cruiserweight division. While the big boys played in the main event, the rest of the card would see some of the most exciting high flying and technical wrestling in the world. But the main event was out of bounds, no matter how talented the upper midcard were. There was no way Nash and Hogan would pass the torch to someone as small as Jericho or Benoit: both men famously had to go to the WWF to get the push that their talent deserved, as did Paul Wight. Incredibly, WCW let the giants contract expire, and he jumped to the competition, to be renamed The Big Show. Meanwhile, creative had nothing for Stunning Steve Austin, who was fired while rehabbing an injury at home. Hed take that anger and frustrated ambition and channel it, force it deep within, turn the fire inside into stone cold rage and become the biggest star the business had seen since the heyday of Hogan himself. Bret Hart was one of the hottest properties in wrestling after the Montreal Screwjob in November 1997, and was booked like an afterthought upon arrival in WCW until his career was dramatically ended due to injury and he was fired. Diamond Dallas Page, another proper homegrown star, was turned heel when arguably he was as hot a babyface as hed ever been. Ric Flair, the face of the NWA and a WCW man through and through, whod carried the company on his back in the lean times, was jobbed out over and over and over, disrespected like no legend has been before or since, treated like a worthless has-been. The sad thing is, we could go on again but again, thats a whole other article in itself.
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