10 WCW Greats That WWE Didn't Know What To Do With

10. Lex Luger

It's easy to discount Luger given the slug he became in the dying days of WCW, but in the early 90s, Luger was a hot commodity. He was fresh off a run in NWA/WCW as a tag, US and world heavyweight champion in 1992, when Vince McMahon signed him... to the World Bodybuilding Federation. Ugh. When Luger finally got around to debuting in the WWF in 1993, he was The Narcissist, a gimmick that went nowhere and was abandoned once Hulk Hogan left, because, you've got to have a blond superhero on the roster at all times, right? "Made in the USA" Lex Luger slammed world champion Yokozuna and then jumped on a bus to campaign for a title shot, because nothing says world champion material more than a guy who takes his case to the fans rather than getting in the champ's face. Luger never won the big match and was gone from WWE just two-and-a-half years after debuting, returning to WCW and making a huge splash on the very first Nitro in the process. He never rose to the level of a megastar in WWE and is still regarded as a WCW product first and foremost.