5 WCW Legends Who Never Appeared On Monday Nitro

Which WCW title winners never actually appeared on the flagship show?

by John Bills
Ron Simmons WCW Champion
WWE.com

World Championship Wrestling is long dead, a sentence as superfluous as any you may read on the internet. Its flagship show was WCW Monday Nitro, a television show that made a mockery of Monday Night Raw's dominance - but one whose desperation for ratings supremacy ultimately contributed to the promotion's decline.

Most of the great WCW moments happened on this free television show. The biggest names in the history of WCW and Jim Crockett Promotions turned up on Nitro at some point or another - legends like Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Sting, and Lex Luger were integral parts of the show during the Monday Night Wars.

Others, such as Terry Funk, Barry Windham, Road Warrior Animal, and Harley Race, only made late appearances on the show. In the case of Race, his showing was fleeting at best.

All of the greats of WCW history appeared on the show - well, almost all of them.

Some left the company on the eve of the show's debut, others decided against remaining in the industry altogether. One man was even featured the show's initial title video, only to never appear on the show itself. They all won championships in the company, but never on Nitro.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.