10 Times Wrestling Promotions Came Back From The Dead
3. WCW - 1996
It's dead.
Hulk Hogan's superman fantasies played out wretchedly onscreen, he wasn't just the man in wrestling in 1995. Hogan killed the auras and legacies of Vader and Ric Flair and dominated every naff creature from every conceivable dimension in his hilariously dismal programme with the Dungeon of Doom, in which his moustache was said to host the goodness within him. He must have had a shave before he dropped N-bombs on audio, too.
Sharks! Mummies! Giants! Hogan was the master of land, sea, and indeed all of time! Open your mouths and receive all of him, and brother, there's a lot to take!
It's alive!
Eric Bischoff convinced Hogan to turn heel as part of an incredible strategic drive later emulated by AEW. To reimagine WCW as a tapestry of all that was electrifying the wider wrestling sphere, it incorporated the white-hot NJPW/UWF-i inter-promotional feud, the antiheroes and gorgeous technicality of ECW, and the scintillating, mind-blowing lucha libre introduced to the U.S. by the glowing AAA promotion.
WCW was the buffet, and before it ate itself, it was outstanding pro wrestling television abound in heat, mystery and an in-ring product the likes of which middle America had never, ever seen.