Rewatching The Last Wrestling Show To Beat WWE Raw In The Ratings
4. The Sheer Star Power
Even those lower down on the totem poll were getting a solid reaction back in 1998, but higher up the card WCW had a ludicrous amount of star power at its disposal at this time.
In terms of bona fide main event stars, you had Goldberg, Hollywood Hogan, Sting, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Roddy Piper, Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, Ultimate Warrior, Lex Luger, the Giant, and even a Scott Steiner who was starting his ascension up the singles ranks.
Whether you like them or not, all 12 of those names are true A-list superstars with countless World Championships under their respective belts.
If you look at the current landscape of WWE, there are obviously plentiful wrestlers who can lay claim to having been a World Champion, yet the star power is painfully lacking. That's not necessarily down to the talent, of course, with them often expected to magically turn chicken sh*t into chicken salad.
Somebody like a Kevin Owens had the potential to be a money-drawing, eye-grabbing true main event star, but then WWE goes and books him like a joke during his eventual Universal Championship win. Realistically, if you're looking at WWE in the hopes of finding that true top, top megastar, there's only a handful of people who you can look at - the persistently absent Brock Lesnar, the similarly in limbo Ronda Rousey, the out-of-action Becky Lynch, and Roman Reigns.
That's not a knock on WWE talent, that's simply an indicator of how bad a job WWE has done in presenting its talent like legitimate must-see stars.