8 Awesome WCW Ideas That Didn't Last

7. Running The Gauntlet

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This idea seems less appealing having lived through WWE's brief obsession with gauntlets over the past two years, each of diminishing returns. That said, WCW's late '80s spin on the match type was one that could be repeated in the long term without ever growing particularly stale.

With the advent of a Saturday afternoon show called Power Hour in 1989, WCW introduced a new feature called 'Running the Gauntlet'. It wasn't quite as simple as it first sounds: rather than face a series of concatenated matches, a wrestler would instead be challenged to win three bouts across all of TBS' weekend wrestling shows. Succeed, and they'd bag a cool $15,000. Fail, and they'd probably get their face smashed in by Sid Vicious.

Only two men - the tough as nails Steiner brothers - managed to pass the gauntlet, before the star-making concept was prematurely abandoned in 1990.

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