10 Wrestlers You Never Realised Were Signed To WCW
5. C.W. Anderson
C.W. Anderson is a tough-as-nails brawler known for his years spent in the original Extreme Championship Wrestling, and then for a cup of coffee in WWE’s revival of ECW. Before any of that, though, the grappler was signed to World Championship Wrestling.
Joining WCW’s famed Power Plant training facility in 1998, Anderson spent 18 months under contract with WCW. During that time, he didn’t make a single appearance on WCW TV and was berated by Paul Orndorff and J.J. Dillon as not having the ability or appearance to ever make it as a wrestler.
Still, despite this, WCW would bizarrely offer Anderson a new six-year contract. Disgruntled with his WCW experience, the former NWA Tag Team Champ turned down WCW’s offer and headed for Paul Heyman’s Land of Extreme. Anderson would spend two years with ECW before the company folded in on itself due to the infamous financial and network problems that were rampant in the latter days of Extreme Championship Wrestling.