8 Amazing Wrestlers That Flopped In WCW

How Good He Was: It's still incredible that Bret Hart was able to carry a frankly knackered and completely lost Davey Boy Smith through one of the greatest pay-per-view headliners ever at SummerSlam 1992. Just imagine how good that match could've been had The British Bulldog been with it - we might be talking 'Top 5 Match Ever' territory there.

At his best, Smith was a muscle man who could shift. Even at his biggest, the Brit could still move around the ring with ease, and it was that combo of power and zippiness that surely had WCW licking their chops when the Bulldog arrived in 1993. Further, the company reasoned that they could use Smith's star power to make inroads in the UK.

Why He Flopped: Davey's union with Sting against top heels Sid Vicious and Big Van Vader resulted in some passable matches, but they didn't perform as well as expected on pay-per-view. As a whole, Bulldog's 1993 run was too short to really count for much of anything, but he'd be back in the promotion following the 'Montreal Screwjob'.

Following Bret Hart over from the WWF, Smith re-debuted as a WCW star in late-1997, but he lacked the oomph he'd had previously. Being honest, the WCW roster was far too stacked for Davey to stand out, so he was relegated to the lower card in a nothing tag-team with fellow Hart Foundation member Jim Neidhart.

That's when the injuries began to pile up, thus accelerating Smith towards an untimely demise just a few years later. It's a sad story.