10 Superstars WCW Completely Wasted

The Beast in the East was a big deal just about everywhere he went. He was a huge draw in New Japan, where he earned some serious money in the 90s, and main evented WrestleMania XI for WWE. After he left WWE, he moved on to ECW and the world of MMA, where he remained a well-paid star.

After receiving one too many poor payoffs from Paul Heyman and co., Bigelow left for WCW in late 1998 where, you guessed it, he was a top star on a significant guaranteed contract. Coming in as a perceived 'outsider', the man from Asbury Park, New Jersey immediately set his sights on one the WCW's big boys in Goldberg.

That's exactly where he should have been. Few wrestlers the size of Bigelow were as athletic as he was, and even fewer looked as intimidating. He was a good match for Da Man, but he came up short in their pay-per-view outing at SummerSlam, falling as so many others did to the Spear and Jackhammer.

Instead of trying to reheat Bigelow, WCW decided to stick him in their meandering hardcore division, where he squared off with such luminaries as Nasty Boy Brian Knobs and Hardcore Hak (The Sandman). After that endeavour, he formed the Jersey Triad stable with Kanyon and DDP. The group enjoyed some midcard success.

Once they split, though, the big man just bounced around from meaningless feud to meaningless feud with fellow go-nowheres Shawn Stasiak and Mike Awesome. Bigelow was with WCW until the end, and didn't come close to reaching his potential in the group.

He decided to wait out his lucrative Time Warner contract, rather than join the Invasion. Given the damage done to his career and reputation over the previous couple of years, who can really blame him?