The list of great WCW champions is long. Think of the great main event wrestlers like Ric Flair, Sting and Ricky Steamboat tearing it up in arenas around the world. Then remember the great, cutting-edge Cruiserweight matches with guys like Rey Mysterio Jr. and Eddie Guerrero duking it out for high-flyer supremacy. Then there were the classic tag teams like The Steiner Brothers, The Midnight Express and The Road Warriors. And then...there were the bad champions. And that list is also quite long. Due in part to the company choosing so many bad champions for so many belts, they are no longer in business. But which ones were the worst of the worst? The wrestlers here are ranked from when the company officially became known as WCW in the late 80s through the end of Nitro's run in 2001. A long, strange, and briefly, incredibly successful, stretch of time. All title reigns from every belt were considered for this list. World Heavyweight Championship, US Title, TV, Cruiserweight, Tag Team and, yes, even the Saskatchewan Hardcore Invitational Title. The title runs are ranked on how much damage the wrestler holding it did not only to the belt, but to the company itself. From wrestlers playing politics to score themselves some gold, to flagrant nepotism, to egomaniacs who had no business in a wrestling ring, here are the 12 worst WCW champions ever.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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