10 Wrestlers That Made Fans Change The Channel
8. The Outsiders (1996)
History has reduced WCW's 83 week winning streak between 1996 and 1998 as the pick-me-up WWE desperately needed after years of trying and failing to find the next Hulk Hogan. This is entirely because it's Vince McMahon's organisation that gets to tell the story.
Why should a run of Nitros be diminished in status to how they impacted Raw, rather than just celebrated on their own terms? Well, to ask anybody entrenched in the Stamford bubble, it's because they only did it with WWE stars anyway.
Though Scott Hall spoke with enough Razor Ramon ticks to trigger a lawsuit that put a sharp stop to all that, the Atlanta outfit weren't getting viewers back the next week just to see 'The Bad Guy'. Nor were they overly concerned with Diesel after about a month of Kevin Nash's adjectives.
This was a hot angle with major stars that rapidly moved the soon-to-be-named Outsiders on from anything they'd achieved in the years prior. They were but two men, yet constantly looked like they had a physical and mental advantage over the entire organisation. Believably powerful and threatening, they were everything then that the hundred-strong RETRIBUTION could never be now.