10 Wrestlers You Were Too Embarrassed To Admit You Loved

4. The Dungeon Of Doom

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Formed following Kevin Sullivan's 'Faces Of Fear' outfit failing in their stated aim of destroying Hulkamania's tear through WCW in 1994, 1995's Dungeon Of Doom was approximately a decade out of date and has thus worn incredibly well on rewatch.

It's worth prefacing this by saying - categorically - that the Dungeon was a total and utter catastrophe, but there was something paradoxically wonderful about WCW taking Hulk Hogan's advice of following WWE's 1980s formula spectacularly too literally.

Whilst Randy Savage, Sting and others waited in line, Hogan instead worked his way through every monster the company could collate. The former Earthquake had already gone by 'Avalanche' in the organisation before he morphed into a literal man-Shark. Brutus Beefcake turned heel as "The Butcher" but steered into madness as the schizophrenic Zodiac. Kamala was unearthed from wherever WWE had left him in 1993, and Paul Wight started life emerging from a block of ice as Andre The Giant's son.

This was the other magnificently absurd element; the inability to actually explain the monsters. "The Yeti" was a giant Mummy, Zodiac turned out to be hiding in plain sight as Hulk's inside man, and Big Van Vader was more man than 'Mastodon' before he bailed from the company for good. There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity in wrestling booking - WCW crossed it countless times here.

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