10 Worst Simultaneous WWE/WCW Heavyweight Champions
9. Sycho Sid/Hollywood Hogan (1996)
Though one was a revived giant draw and the other simply a revived giant, there was something rather maddening about the state of the industry's two top titles at the tail-end of what had been one of the most exciting years in recent wrestling history.
When Hulk Hogan turned heel to join up with Kevin Nash and Scott Hall to form the New World Order, WCW found the formula to drag wrestling from the outhouse back to the penthouse following what had effectively been a six year financial slump. Reinvigorated as a villain, 'Hollywood' was certainly worthy as top titleholder, but his old political habits threatened to make the gimmick die hard.
Putting over Roddy Piper in December to give a babyface in WCW some credibility after the group steamrolled everybody that year, he didn't do it with the belt on the line because having the title still mattered most of all in wrestling. A point Vince McMahon was willfully missing when he gambled on Sycho Sid following Shawn Michaels' commercial failure the same year - Sid looked incredible but fans were getting thirstier for either good booking or good work, or ideally both. Sid, in contrast to his contemporaries especially, provided neither.