10 WWE Stars WASTED By WCW

[@Cultaholic]

Apologies for the re-upload! KZbin decided to demonetise (again) after the original video went live.

[@jameshenry9919]

That's alright though, WCW demonitised every person on this list. So It's rather sweet irony.

[@raptorjesus2516]

Ah I was wondering why I thought I'd seen this before

[@PopeyeBjj86]

Thought I was a time traveler then

[@SheriffOutlaw]

Them Bastards up to their antics again huh? No worries A.P. Cool ! 😎

[@The_Chozen_onee]

No worries 👍

[@mycahjofficial]

*Such a damn shame the way how WCW totally wasted Bret Hart. Instead of being the star that he was in WWF, instead he just became another guy in WCW. It was probably Hogan and Bischoff sabotaging him.*

[@keithcrockett7838]

Hogan, LUGER, NASH, BISCHOFF to name a few

[@prj7894]

I think the Kliq buddies played a huge role

[@joenintendo]

I thought Bret had a good run for the short time he was there. Was United States champion for a good while and fended with Curt Hennig, DDP, and Sting before getting moved into the main event after he came back after Owen's death.

[@mentalphilanthropist35]

Don't forget he worked a while after oldberg gave him that career ending mule kick. That didn't help much.

[@ssssssstssssssss]

​@@joenintendo Bret Hart was the MVP of the WWF in 97 and he disappeared in WCW. I can't really call that a good run. Bret is abrasive so probably was not good at backstage politics, which was crucial at that time in WCW..

[@screamrad218]

Bret Hart going to WCW could’ve been something special. But they botched the hell out of that.

[@justme-ti1rh]

An over hyped over hill guy.

[@titanhades4331]

@@justme-ti1rh who was still better then pretty much WWEs entire roster today.

[@Braylon1997]

@@justme-ti1rh overhyped huh?

[@theluckiesteh9058]

Wonder if we'll get a 10 WWE stars wasted by TNA.

[@DragonHeart613]

@The L.O.E. That is inevitable.

[@j.t.robins5896]

The list is being built now.

[@TheSBleeder]

Narrowing it down to 10 is the real challenge.

[@brandonpage7087]

I can't think of 10 WWE stars that were wasted by TNA. They certainly didn't waste Ken Anderson, Kurt Angle, Christian, Team 3D, Mickie James, Lisa Marie "Tara" Varon, Rob Van Dam, etc. They all were stars in TNA, & received huge pushes. TNA's thing was unfortunately, favoring & pushing the WWE stars, over their own homegrown guys.

[@chrisbreezy3048]

I still remember Marty Jannetty wrestling Jericho on the Nitro where the list of 1,004 holds made its debut.

[@andrewlayton3903]

Go back and watch that promo just to take a shot whenever Jericho says 'arm bar'. 😂

[@matthewbentzley7054]

That was the way WCW should have went. They may have survived instead of the overused NWO.

[@AlexTheRed1985]

I actually am more pissed about the other way around. The DDP run still pisses me off to this day.

[@kragbrun5198]

Gimmick turned into his yoga career though

[@DFloyd84]

DDP vs. The Rock. People's Champion vs. People's Champion. The angle writes itself.

[@gqsmoove87]

@@DFloyd84 facts

[@McMahonHater]

Imagine the matches Owen ans Pilman could have had. Owen Hart in the Four Horsemen?

[@CaptainFlipperHere]

Bring over the Harts and you got yourself the Four Hartsmen.

[@McMahonHater]

@@CaptainFlipperHere Hart Foundation vs The Four Horsemen might have been fun. Bret vs Flair, Owen/Niedhart vs Pilman/Anderson Bulldog vs Benoit. Any combination would make for a good match. Of course the best Horsemen team was Ric Flair, Berry Windham, Arn Anderson, and Tully Blanchard.

[@trapjaw7253]

I can't picture Owen in a version of the horseman .

[@Pensfan5919]

@@trapjaw7253 I see him fitting in the version just before AA retired. Flair, AA, Benoit, Owen. That sounds incredible.

[@der_jannik_0115]

The amount of wrestlers that immediately came to my mind when seeing the title speaks volumes about the mess WCW was regarding WWE ex stars

[@ahmadceasar5484]

It's funny because WWE does the same thing 🤣🤣🤣 it's like they hired the 2000 wcw crew

[@ahmadceasar5484]

@@billythekid22220 well thats where you'd be wrong most of wcw top guys were from tbe wwf except for the horseman and sting and a select few others but wwe on tbe other hand has ruined the careers of great wrestlers just because they didn't start in wwe

[@ahmadceasar5484]

@@billythekid22220 that literally has nothing to do with it if wcw was funded by a billionaire they would still be in business just because they closed down doesn't mean wwe did everything better than them and if you believe they did you obviously didn't watch wcw

[@ahmadceasar5484]

@@billythekid22220 no it wasn't at the time of closing they were not ran by billionaires my guy

[@thomasdamager]

Next video: "WWE Stars wasted by WWE"

[@johansvensson833]

he has allready done it and it was not great

[@stevenpagnani7005]

That be a long video

[@havelthedeadinside1799]

Number 1 = Dolph ziggler

[@DJDoubleCee]

I guess in hindsight, it was good thing Stone Cold got wasted in WCW otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten the bald head, middle finger flipping Stone Cold that we know today.

[@DustinBrooks-tl4bh]

I just want to say, I've been a wrestling fan ever since I was a little kid in he 80's. Not only do I follow what is going on, but I have always loved 'wrestling trivia' I guess you would call it, just little behind the scenes stuff or really interesting wrestling history, and really I had myself thinking that I have pretty much heard dang near everything, but somehow it wasn't until just now that I learned that Owen Hart wrestled in WCW at one point. I had no idea at all, but find it pretty dang interesting. Love you guy's videos by the way, great work!

[@grimreaper1542]

If Shane O Mac isn't number 1, I'm gonna be livid

[@jakethecreeper7840]

This is a certified hood classic

[@t-bro9529]

Hart won some Championships in WCW, wasn't a complete failure

[@DragonHeart613]

But Owen was never given the chance to become a big star in WCW whereas in WWE he did become a big star.

[@cardboardempire]

In WCW's defence of Brett Hart. He was injured several times that really took a toll on his body. Sad his career ended at such a young age.

[@namikstudios]

What happened to his brother Owen around this time would have been really hard for him to deal with too. That's something that is often overlooked I think, not the tragedy in general, but I mean the impact it had on Bret's mental health, because it obviously takes a huge toll on someone when something like that happens. And it was such a horrific, sudden, freak accident too, so would have come as a huge shock to Bret.

[@PlatinumEuropeLoner]

Saw the video title and was like "wait, didn't they upload this a few days ago?" before realizing this is a reupload, because of how the original video got demonetized

[@diezel308]

0:13 - Ah yes, the standard "Former WCW Employee" face.

[@DragonHeart613]

I want to see the following countdowns next: 10 Stars wasted by TNA 10 Worst IWGP Champions 10 Stars who got their big break in Japan

[@Nbflowers1989]

Re-upload! Nice

[@McMahonHater]

HHH is the smartest and toughest guy in wrestling, just ask him.

[@DragonHeart613]

@Albert Nada Retro Triple H has proven over the years to be one of the toughest & smartest in the biz. The guy famously fought his way back from a career-threatening quad injury to win The Royal Rumble and had insane matches with Mick Foley plus he's one of the very few if not the only guy in WWE today with actual brains & creative know-how to organize consistently spectacular shows, rivalries, building new talent & even long-term booking all via NXT which is Triple H's own creation.

[@My19812011]

@@DragonHeart613 NXT being used as a developmental brand was actually just using Shane McMahon’s idea of what Shane proposed the rebranded ECW of 2006 or 2007 to be which both Vince and Triple H shot down as a bad idea citing they didn’t need an on screen developmental brand

[@lztrfilms8250]

@@My19812011 Now you are just being poor sport. Triple H still put NXT where it is today. Maybe it was Shane's idea but the idea of a developmental brand is nothing new. Wwe has had them for years before NXT (USWA, OVW and the Heartland promotion). Triple h (and Vinnie Mac in a way) gave it the backing and the platform that it needed

[@jamesh6535]

Now, when WWE gets someone who can get over with the crowd on his own, like Braun Strowman, they fire the guy.

[@dancatanese5854]

And Tye Dillinger, and Rusev, and Zack Ryder, and....well we get the point lol. Ridiculous

[@optimus2008]

I still think The Undertaker should've been No.1. That guy literally lasted 3 decades in the company with a gimmick which would've gotten boring and yet became the best character in pro wrestling history.

[@titanhades4331]

And hes got Bret Hart to thank for thank. Undertaker even says so.

[@samhayden60]

I think some of this is a bit unfair as people grow and change and sometimes the disappointment of being released forces people to be creative or change for the better. What I'm trying to say is "would you have ended up with Stone Cold being Stone Cold if he didn't get that edginess to him after being fired by wcw?"

[@willdallas53]

When uncle Eric was talking about hhh, he wasn’t referring to anything to do with creative when he said him not living in Atlanta hurt him. He was referring to the fact that, under Eric, wcw had cut a lot of the travel budget so hhh wasn’t used as much as he would have been if he had moved to Atlanta.

[@mrnaughtycat]

Pissing ted turners money up the wall I would be livid with Eric birch off

[@jeremybird3467]

With how bad i heard the injury sting suffered wrestling seth rollins...i have to admit...sting truly surprised me in his tag match with darby allin vs scorpio sky and ethan page....i mean i was shocked that he worked so well...i mean he even did high risk spots...with the injury and the fact he is like 60 years old or older...now i know sting can go in the ring among the greatest...he has always been my fav wrestler...i was always a lil stinger not a hulkamaniac....but i truly felt cinematic type matches like at revolution was all we would get and im happy to say i was wrong...

[@Nickles4]

Since the og video got deleted, it’s crazy to think that if WWF let Owen go to WCW, He’d probably still be alive today

[@RayPetree3]

God. Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Benoit all deserve a nod here. Sure, they were significant in WCW, but they weren’t the top of the card talents that they should have been. They could have taken turns working with top guys like Hogan, Savage, Goldberg, DDP, Sting, or Flair in main events and gotten over.

[@davidtodd3401]

Imagine Owen Hart in the Cruiserweight division after Montreal. Hart Foundation vs nWo would have been epic

[@ljaquos]

Frankly, there are a lot of similarities between WCW and WWE, particularly in how they use their check book. Signing top quality guys and just failing to use them properly, then letting them go to the competition comes to mind... *cough cough* Braun, Aleister, Ruby... *cough cough*

[@rogueparadox5447]

Can't wait for the 15 WCW Stars WWE Has Wasted

[@Whathandleisavailable]

Just about all save Ric Flair

[@Lakeshow11]

@@Whathandleisavailable i mean they elevated Benoit, Guerrero, mysterio and Jericho off the top of my head.

[@NateLeonhart]

@@Whathandleisavailable Can we really say Booker was wasted? He had a pretty run in WWE, if I remember correct.

[@mjstory1976]

Its not even close to 15 😂

[@JungleBunkRootsMusic2022]

Apart from sting, ddp and steiner all the wcw stars were much better in wwe than they were in wcw.

[@violagreene4643]

I can't believe you missed the chance to say Paul "Paul Orndorff" Orndorff...

[@776football]

WCW essentially had Tom Brady, Barry Sanders, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, Tony Gonzalez, and Larry Fitzgerald on their team and managed to never win a playoff game

[@Larry-dq4ig]

Well, by that analogy, I would say WCW won a playoff game or two since WCW beat WWF in the ratings for 83 straight weeks.

[@wildcatterry17]

Plans to do the reverse? WCW guys that WWE didn’t know what to do with. I got a shortlist. Vader, Sting, Barry Windham, DDP,

[@agentorange1156]

How do you waste Bret Hitman Hart.... how

[@Plus27]

Is this video re-uploaded. I am sure I've seen it before. Maybe I have time travelled.

[@danielgertler5976]

I'll agree with Taker and Stone Cold being so high on the list, but Bret should be number 1. Taker and Stone Cold were cases where WCW had them before they were big and didn't know what to do with them. Bret was a bona fide star handed to them on a silver platter who was still at the height of his popularity. It should have been impossible to screw that up but they found a way.

[@jb888888888]

How about Leapin'/The Genius Lanny Poffo? WCW only hired him to get his brother Randy Savage, and literally never used him once. Got paid to stay home for his entire WCW "run."

[@atomicbleep]

11:59... isn't that The Punisher standing across the ring from Superstar Steve? Wonder whatever happened to him... I bet nobody would pay to watch him wrestle either.

[@jb888888888]

6:05 FYI Brian Pillman was a Stampede *alumnus* not alumni. "Alumni" is plural. It's like saying that Pillman was a graduates. No, he was a graduate.

[@willdallas53]

Wow, listen to the sound of no one caring. Good job bro.

[@jb888888888]

@@willdallas53 Oh no. A mean comment on KZbin. How will I ever survive.

[@JM1993951]

Do a list of WCW stars who never should’ve come to WWE. Vader comes to mind immediately.

[@rafaelmassara7588]

"With one of the key criticisms being that they either couldn't create stars, or grossly misused the ones that they did have". Almost reminds me of another company who is putting 5 hours of diarrhea on everyone's TV screens every week. Can't quite put my finger on who that is tho

[@jeremybird3467]

Like bret hart...mick foley was originally used well...while brets debut shouldnt been as a ref...but at same time i get why wcw wanted him on starrcade 97....starrcade was wcw big show and 97 was their highest grossing ppv....both hart and foley were used well to begin w/....but then hit that ceiling in wcw....i mean the sting/cactus jack fued was awesome...and vader v foley was sheer violent....if wcw kept steve austin...we wouldn't have got stone cold...but he woulda went down as 1 of the best heels ever...cause he always had me screaming at my tv as a kid...he was a great wcw heel...especially in a bad time for wcw...when flair was still in wwe...

[@lawbailey80]

I’m just waiting on the “10 wrestlers wasted by AEW” video.

[@Bjoern_1897]

never gonna happen, they are in the pockets of Big Tony

[@lawbailey80]

@@Bjoern_1897 lol 😂

[@DragonHeart613]

@@Bjoern_1897 Contrary to popular belief, not everything aew does is top notch.

[@lawbailey80]

@@DragonHeart613 I think you misunderstood his comment

[@DragonHeart613]

@@lawbailey80 If I did, my apologies✌

[@AFMountaineer2000]

Many people paid to see The Undertaker wrestle while at the same time Mick Foley was putting butts in seats

[@deadwafflez9685]

Fast forward a few years to top ten wrestlers WWE wasted.

[@tehjboney4249]

Looking at the talent WCW acquired each were used terribly.The Hart Foundation could’ve made the jump to WCW together and have a Hart Foundation and NWO feud having some good classic segments and matches especially at War Games.Chris Jericho is an individual who would’ve debuted in the Cruiserweight division as a face and when going for the Cruiserweight Title he would beat Rey Mysterio Jr for the Cruiserweight Title after delivering a low blow to Rey and delivering a BreakDown.Jericho would then take the Cruiserweight Title and hit Rey in the head with the title and then remove his mask.Jericho would drop his LionHeart gimmick and the name calling himself Chris Jericho.Chris Jericho would hold the title for 6 months until dropping the title to Dean Malenko in a submission match.Jericho would then go to the mid card division and have some classics with Owen Hart and Bret Hart and also capture the mid card titles being the WCW United States Title and World Television Title.Jericho would leave and join WWF and be inserted in the Light Heavyweight division and capture the title in his first month on the brand.He would hold the title for 6 months and also capture the IC Title as well.Jericho would turn face for most of 2000 and be still in the mid card division.Jericho in 2001 would turn heel again and would beat both The Rock and Stone Cold on an episode of Monday Night RAW winning the WWE Undisputed Title in a complete shocker.Jericho would have some classics with Chris Benoit,The Rock,Stone Cold Steve Austin,The Undertaker,Kurt Angle,and Kane.Before finally dropping the title to Triple H allowing HHH to become Undisputed Champion and gain his revenge.Jericho would have a rematch at Judgement Day where the match would be built up from Jericho attacking Stephanie McMahon and locking her in the Walls Of Jericho.Jericho would later form the UnAmericans in 2002 and would feud with Hulk Hogan and Kurt Angle for awhile.Jericho would get another main event spot where he would feud with Shawn Michaels and have some underrated classics with Booker T and RVD over the the reinstated United States Title on RAW.

[@arkjag2991]

Reminder that Okada was in TNA for a while.

[@miked7212]

Some of these wrestlers like Stone Cold Steve Austin just didn't have the characters ( Stone Cold gimick ) that they later had in WWE. That wasn't too much of WCW's fault. Even Eric Bishoff said what I just said in his book "Controversy Creates Cash". Eric Bishoff said in that book he didn't know he was going to have that Stone Cold gimick in WWE and be huge as heck! Some wrestlers like Bret Hart were totally and utterly flat out wasted by WCW though. Bret Hart got seriously injured by Goldberg and wasn't there to warn Owen against his dangerous stunt. WCW very poorly used him. He should have just stayed in WWE and away from Bumbling Bill and WCW in general.

[@theonewhowokeup9987]

If only Marty Jannetty just didn't go astray from the path he and Shawn Michaels would've had the best rivalry in WWE. IC title matches, WWE title matches a run for the tag team titles but this time they are forced to work together like Angle and Benoit. Oh the possibilities but *sigh* it is what it is.

[@lorimorgan7279]

Why didn't he mention the Cactus Jack: Lost in Cleveland?

[@Akuzastar]

A wrestling company wasting wrestlers? That would never happen in 2021.... Oh wait.

[@mjstory1976]

Yep AEW is doing it right now

[@gqsnowman]

The audio in the background of this is REALLY grating to me. I kept thinking that something was wrong with my air conditioning.

[@williamsmith666]

"Bret himself has been very critical of WCW --" Among everything else under the sun.

[@bubbajoshproductions3990]

Now WCW stars wasted by WWE. Sting would definitely be #1

[@bruklynbrawlr121]

I think the no. 1 position should go to Bret Hart because he was already a star before he when he joined WCW IN 97' & most of the guys in this list weren't or not as big as he was. Austin, Tkaer, Foley all became bigger stars later on when they joined WWE.

[@TheSBleeder]

In fairness to WCW... Did anyone really look at Stunning Steve Austin in 1994 and say, "This guy is going to change the face of pro wrestling forever"?

[@vilotfox1]

Mentality of Vince McMahon

[@ScottBlackula]

In some of these cases wwe gave these wrestlers the perfect gimmick to make them legends like undertaker, HHH, austin

[@lynge62]

4:16 Didnt know Xqc was a wrestler for WCW back in the day. Good on him.

[@petercastillo2752]

Is this a re-upload or do I have deja vu?

[@benjaminquan3247]

I was thinking the same thing so I'm guessing a re-upload

[@mikebadaoa2019]

Time for some number crunching, as Dave looks at both WWF and WCW and compares TV ratings and house show attendance numbers for the last 5 years in great detail. There's a lot of numbers and stuff here but I'll try to sum it up easily. When it comes to WCW, they're obviously in the midst of their hottest run ever. But there's a misconception that WCW winning the cable ratings war is some new thing, when in reality, WCW has pretty much always beaten WWF in cable ratings, with the Saturday Night show beating early Raw and Prime Time ratings all the time, but they weren't in prime time. And no one really paid attention until the companies began going head-to-head on Monday nights. The truth is, yes, WCW is winning the war but the alleged "decline of WWF" is overrated. 1996 was WWF's strongest house show year since 1991, even though their TV ratings have hit new lows. But overall, WWF is still doing strong business everywhere else and TV ratings haven't shown to have that much effect on ticket sales. In fact, WWF's house show business grew at a faster rate than WCW's did last year and with increased ticket prices, their house show business became even more profitable. There's a perception from people who believe the Monday night ratings are the entire business and believe WWF is in trouble because they're losing the ratings war, but overall, they're still pretty strong (I find stuff like this interesting, because the revisionist version of history is that WCW damn near put WWF out of business until Vince heroically fought back and conquered his enemy. Reality is, they were never even remotely in danger of it and aside from TV ratings, they were doing their best business in years on every other front. Sure, they were a distant second in TV ratings but in all other aspects of the business, WCW was only barely winning).

[@OmegaTitan37]

WCW is a weird little thing but we still love it.

[@InkedupT-raw]

Had owen went to wcw instead of staying in wwe when bret left who knows maybe he will still be alive today!!

[@Boman803]

He most certainly would be cause Bret said that had he'd been there, he would have talked Owen out of doing the stunt.

[@mjstory1976]

He had 4 yrs left on his WWE contract

[@t-dizz7614]

So many suggestions that could make this list (The Giant wins the title a couple of times in his 1st few months then just another NWO lackey in less than a year) but no one can tell me Mike Awesome didn't deserve better

[@titanhades4331]

Well, he did do better then what WWE ended up doing with him.

[@mofftarkin6010]

What about the ultimate warrior

[@American-Zero]

Warrior in WCW was no one's fault but his own due to creative control and a HORRIBLE match with Hollywood Hogan which was nothing like their Wrestlemania match.

[@jb888888888]

I'm confused why would nobody ever pay to see Mean Mark Callus wrestle during contract talks?

[@keeeybby_3006]

You forgot Mr perfect curt hennings

[@garyhen1707]

Lol party Marty, that says everything lol

[@jackcranmer99]

Emmmm. Saturday night was WCW’s flagship show in 1993, hardly low profile?

[@stevenpagnani7005]

R.I.P ANVIL.

[@jeremybird3467]

Hey triple h did his job in wcw...i was too young to fully understand the backstage politics...but when jean paul levesque(i dont think was a bad name) did a great job as snobby heel...he basically did almost the same shtick he did when he 1st came to wwe as hunter hearst helmsley....lets just say as a kid i couldnt stand it when 1 my favs like sting...or ricky steamboat(im sure ya get the point) faced the future triple h and he worked the crowd well

[@joenintendo]

WCW took Austin from virtual unknown, put the TV, Tag, and U.S. championship on him, while also putting him in feuds with Ric Flair, Sting, and Ricky Steamboat, but they CLEARLY misused him 🙄🙄🙄. FOH

[@ShadowCloutJutsu]

Think about telling someone no one will ever pay to watch him wrestle and you release then weeks later he debuts as The Undertaker 😂

[@davidc.lalnelawma4776]

Austin looks weird with long hair now

[@tello808]

I was confused why I thought I saw this

[@garyhen1707]

Honestly Bret should've just took the 1.5 mil a year Vince was gonna give him....smh

[@jerransperarman9411]

good video

[@IamTheStormThatIsApproaching1]

Next year: 10 WWE wrestlers being wasted by AEW.

[@IamTheStormThatIsApproaching1]

@@HonkeyKongLive you realize it can work both ways, right? 😒

[@johansvensson833]

@@HonkeyKongLive shawn spears swagger and the revival are wasted

[@I.Am.Phenomenal]

Modern WWE reminds me WCW ((

[@seanthaiguy8917]

I know this is old but to be somewhat fair , Austin and Mark didnt start in Wwe

[@ScottBlackula]

Neidhart will always be a Hart foundation member nothing more. RIP Jim Neidhart

[@dickiesmith3283]

Good grief! Stone Cold with hair!

[@feldadon2965]

Make top wwe stars wasted by aew

[@SP-qo3pd]

Hindsight may be 20/20.. but even WCW knew they couldn't do anything with Brett. I'd pay to see him wrestle over Goldberg any day.

[@TurtleDustin]

Is it possible to waste a WWE star before they were even in WWE?

[@fennet.7751]

DAMN!

[@danielfryer8768]

I've met RVD supper good guy

[@lilpoetat]

thanks!

[@dibslin2.081]

They completely wasted Big Boss Man.

[@justme-ti1rh]

All of them over the hill at the time.

[@ryanmurdoch9581]

Can’t believe the wasted talent WCW

[@garyhen1707]

The only reason wcw was on my TV at all was due to Bret hart....that didn't work.

[@UninvitedGhost]

Where is the list of WWE wrestlers wasted by WWE?

[@mjstory1976]

Or WWE wrestlers wasted by AEW & Tony CON 😂

[@Sherwinthomas15]

Clearly Ole Anderson didn’t know shit

[@ScottBlackula]

They screwed over Bret when he joined the nwo and made him another wrestler lost in the shuffle. He should have been a loner or maybe a horseman. His matches with Booker t were always good though

[@johansvensson833]

damon striker (edge)

[@martinrubio6357]

Bam bam should been wwe champion

[@jamesbernstone2961]

How's a English guy not gunna have Davey Boy on this list.

[@martinrubio6357]

Rvd became a star

[@NickTaylorRickPowers]

Brett wasted Brett

[@daviddamron3489]

ur mom wasted ur mom