10 WCW Storylines That Were Totally Abandoned
8. Team Piper
Heading into Uncensored 1997, the war that threatened to rip World Championship Wrestling apart was in full flow. On one hand you have
the
New World Order, the virus that was slowly but surely killing WCW. On the other
you had Team WCW, comprised of Lex Luger, The Giant and the Steiners, defending
the honour of that proud organisation. On the third hand, which presumably
could exist in WCW Land, you had Team Piper.
Who was to make up Team Piper? Well, Roddy Piper was to find three teammates. The crowd erupted, happy to see their returning hero, but if they knew what was ahead of them they wouldn’t have been so excited. In one of the worst Nitro segments in memory (an impressive achievement at least), Piper held try-outs, eventually revealing his teammates as John Tenta (Earthquake), Layton Morrison and Craig Malley.
That is underwhelming enough as it is, but one week after the try-outs and one week before the PPV, the three were replaced by Chris Benoit, Steve McMichael and Jeff Jarrett of the Four Horsemen. It is probably a good reason that Piper and his original team discarded with, but holy moly was this pointless.