10 Secrets Nobody Has Told You About WCW

3. The Warriors Of KISS

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You may well remember the KISS Demon from WCW's final few years, but chances are you won't be aware that the Demon was merely intended to be the first of a group of wrestlers named the Warriors of KISS.

Each of these grapplers would've purportedly been handpicked by a member of KISS to represent them in in-ring action for Ted Turner's promotion. Clearly, the KISS Demon played by Dale Torborg was in homage to Gene Simmons and his iconic Demon alter-ego, and one has to presume that the other Warriors of KISS would've represented the Starchild, the Catman, and the Space Ace.

The agreement between KISS and WCW was overseen by Eric Bischoff, with the promise being that Torborg's Demon would main event a PPV ahead of the Warriors of KISS becoming a faction. Unfortunately for all involved, Bischoff was out of power by the time the KISS Demon actually debuted, and thus WCW was in a position where the company still had to honour the contracted main event for the Demon, despite him having been booked as a face-painted nobody in Eazy E's absence.

As of result of this contract, SuperBrawl 2000 featured the KISS Demon taking on the Wall in what was billed as a "Special Main Event"... which was the fourth match on the 11-match card, lasted less than four minutes, and ended in a loss for the Demon.

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