When you talk about WCW wrestlers who rose to even greater prominence in WWE, the list reads like a Who's Who of professional wrestling: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Mick Foley, Kevin Nash, Eddie Guerrero, the Undertaker, Chris Jericho and HHH, just to name a few. All had varying levels of success in WCW before jumping to WWE and becoming world champions and some of the biggest stars of our generation. However, that does not mean that WWE had the magic touch when it came to taking a WCW star and turning him or her into a household name. In fact, in several cases, WWE dropped the ball and turned what should have been easy money into a dud. These are wrestlers who either were well established or were poised for a breakout and for whatever reason, superstardom never materialized. For purposes of making it too easy to craft a list of 10, let's acknowledge that the vast majority of the WCW guys from the Invasion angle could qualify for this list. A few definitely still made the cut though. Some of the others might be surprising...
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
