10 Worst Simultaneous WWE/WCW Heavyweight Champions
1. Diesel/Hulk Hogan (1995)
On January 4th 1999, Kevin Nash bumped from a Hulk Hogan fingerpoke to surrender the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. It birthed a revived New World Order as the pair revealed their ruse alongside a host of old faces and new heels, but inadvertently provided WWE with all the ammo it required to go undefeated for the entire calendar year for the first time since the very start of the Monday Night Wars.
The two titans of the industry had helped steer their corners of the wrestling business towards an iceberg for the good of their own fortunes. Four years earlier (albeit with somewhat less control), they were in virtually the same position.
Your writer will find much to defend about the underappreciated year that was WWE's 1995, but buyrates and box offices undermine that subjectivity - those watching were entertained by the New Generation's scintillating in-ring product, but they were miniscule in number. That wouldn't change yet, but Diesel categorically wasn't the solution for finding fortune sooner. Remaining WCW fans were left to suffer Hulk's horrendous adventures in the Dungeon Of Doom - some truly woeful creative that felt lightyears behind the curve even then.
It took the advent of WCW Nitro not just to tease Hogan away from all that, but to lure 'Big Daddy Cool' down in 1996 to give him his actual escape route.