15 Wrestlers Who Stole A Living From WCW

12. Dustin Rhodes/Seven (Second WCW Run)

Goldust was an absolute hit in WWF, with his disturbing gimmick and how easy he could make fans feel uncomfortable. Though it wasn€™t well-received by some commentators both within and outside the wrestling industry, he was still one of those outlandish gimmicks that fit surprisingly well during the Atittude Era. However, Dustin€™s second WCW run, which lasted from 1999 to 2001, was simply terrible. Initially, there were plans to have him debut as €˜Seven€™, which was a child abductor sort of character. This character even had its own vignettes, in which €˜Seven€™ was trying to lure children away. Somehow, these vignettes got approved by someone in WCW management during a period when AOL Time Warner was going in the opposite direction from WWF€™s Attitude Era, and wanted more family-friendly ideas. WCW tried to make something out of the former Goldust, which included him burning his WWF attire and wrestling under his own name. But that failed as well: everyone knew Dustin Rhodes as Goldust, and nothing could make fans invest in him, especially wrestling without a gimmick. Clearly, Goldust was a guy who belonged in WWF. He failed to make a major impact anywhere else, including WCW, which tried to use their old formula of €˜take-this-ex-WWF-guy-and-make-him-something-entirely-different-for-WCW€™ to present him as an important wrestler on their roster. Due to a combination of bad vignettes, poor creative ideas and a lack of fan interest in him, Goldust shouldn€™t have worked for WCW between 1999 and 2001.