10 Shocking WCW Plans That Almost Happened

2. Team Canada Were Actually Aliens

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Yeesh, where to really begin with this one... ?

While WCW's final year was one littered with horrendous creative and dismal decisions, one of the few shining lights of the promotion's dying days was Lance Storm. Having arrived from ECW in June 2000, the Calgary grappler soon became a pivotal part of WCW programming.

Holding the WCW United States Championship (the Canadian Heavyweight Championship), the WCW Cruiserweight Championship (the 100 kg and Under Championship), and the WCW Hardcore Championship (the Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title), Storm dominated so much of WCW television - and it was great!

Having formed the Team Canada stable - a group that would feature Mike Awesome, Elix Skipper, Carl Oulette, Major Gunns and 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan - within two months of his WCW debut, all indicators suggested that Lance Storm was destined to find himself with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship around his waist sooner rather than later.

Bizarrely, there were instead talks of having a PPV based around revealing Team Canada as being aliens.

Storm was a phenomenal in-ring worker who always knew the ins and outs of his character, and Team Canada as a faction had some talented names amongst its ranks, but nobody - NOBODY! - would've ever been able to pull off an alien gimmick with any sort of even minimal success.

While Storm's comments indicate that this idea didn't make it to the formal planning stages, just knowing that WCW creative - which at that point featured Vince Russo and Disco Inferno - tossed around this concept tells you all you need to about how crazy things got in those final years of the company's run.

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