10 Things WCW Ripped Off

In 1995, WCW promised something huge. A dramatic new signing that would change everything. A man who would provide, as Hulk Hogan himself promised, 'the Ultimate surprise'. The silhouette of an improbably muscled, shaggy-mulleted, betasseled grappler was shown, wreathed in dry ice. The only possible interpretation was that the Ultimate Warrior was coming to WCW, a man who had spent years in the wilderness after falling unsurprisingly foul of the WWE's drug testing policy.

What the WCW audience actually got was 'The Renegade', a man who painted his face and acted just like the Ultimate Warrior but obviously wasn't, even though WCW seemed to have hoped everyone would think he was. This fact killed any momentum the build-up had given him and the Renegade slid down the greasy pole of the card until he ended his WCW career as a full-on jobber.