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TOP 5 WCW wrestlers of all time

  • Hulk Hogan

    Votes: 46 69.7%
  • Bill Goldberg

    Votes: 52 78.8%
  • Kevin Nash

    Votes: 21 31.8%
  • Booker T

    Votes: 10 15.2%
  • Randy Savage

    Votes: 7 10.6%
  • Ric Flair

    Votes: 47 71.2%
  • Bret Hart

    Votes: 5 7.6%
  • Sting

    Votes: 60 90.9%
  • Chris Benoit

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • Chris Jericho

    Votes: 9 13.6%
  • D.D.P

    Votes: 31 47.0%
  • Big Van Vader

    Votes: 11 16.7%
  • Sid Justice

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • Eddie Guerrero

    Votes: 4 6.1%
  • Rey Mysterio Jr.

    Votes: 8 12.1%

Top 5 WCW superstars of all time:

7K views 54 replies 47 participants last post by  therock11 
#1 ·
Who do you think were the greatest ever 5 WCW wrestlers?
I would say: Goldberg (ofcourse), Hogan, Sting, Kevin Nash and Bret Hart
cast your vote and discuss...
 
#8 ·
He puts jobbers like Mysterio, Guerrero, Benoit, etc. that weren't big stars in WCW and he doesn't put Scott Hall and Lex Luger. You know jack shit about WCW, son!
 
#10 ·
I think it depends on what criteria you're going by, honestly. Are we talking just the biggest names from WCW, as in like they drew the most money & are the more recognizable? Because that's worlds away from being the best in-ring talent.

As an example, when I think of WCW, I always want to name-drop Bobby Eaton or Ricky Morton.
 
#18 ·
When I think WCW, I think Flair, Arn Anderson, Sting & Luger. Those were the WCW "names" to me. When I think of Hogan, I think WWF. When I think Goldberg, it's more like a different era to me because when I think of WCW I always think of the pre-nWo era for some reason. Same with DDP but I do think of those guys as "WCW guys." Vader I think of Japan. So I guess on name recognition I would go with:

1. Ric Flair
2. Sting
3. Lex Luger
4. Arn Anderson
5. Goldberg or Diamond Dallas Page
 
#19 ·
As Walk-In says, it depends on what criteria you're going by. Pure stars, who put on the best matches, who was the most invididually talented etc. I'll just name-drop my top 5 in terms of matches, performances and all round ability as a wrestler/character. It'll mainly be from the NWA era into 92-93 WCW:

5. Steamboat/Eddie Guerrero
4. Vader
3. Arn Anderson
2. Dustin Rhodes
1. Ric Flair

Eddie's 97 is one of the finest individual years for a US wrestler I've seen and he looked like the undisputed best in the world on a weekly basis. His performance in the Fallbrawl 97 match vs Jericho might be one of his finest individual performances ever and its amazing how much better than Jericho he is in the match, to the point where you could have replaced Jericho with any half decent babyface and the match wouldn't have suffered Eddie was that good.

Steamboat from 89-94 just had an incredible run. The Flair series in 89, the Funk and Luger matches from the same year, the 1991 tag w/Dustin vs Arn and Larry, tag with Eddie Gilbert vs Flair and Luger, the Dangerous Alliance feud and the subsequent Rude, Austin and Eaton singles matches as well as the numerous tags. The Austin US championship feud as well as the Regal matches in 94, the Vader bouts including the excellent Human Cage encounter etc.

Vader...well enough good words can't be said about him. One of if not the best big man worker of all time. His 1993 year is a career year where he seriously looks above and beyond anyone he wrestles, be it Davey Boy, Ron Simmons, Sting, Flair or Steamboat. He's the perfect foil for all of them and is so astute at laying out the matches to give enough to his opponent for them to get over as a threat whilst he remains a killer on offence. The Sting series is obviously what most remember him for as well as the Flair Starrcade 1993 match, but I actually find his Dustin Rhodes matches from 1992 and 1994 to be some of his most underappreciated work for how incredibly awesome they are. They're really not far away from making me think Rhodes/Vader should be the blueprint of David vs Goliath rather than Sting/Vader.

Arn...amazing worker whether he was being the ultimate comedy stooge or a merciless machine on offence. So astute and entertaining in a variety of settings against a multitude of different opponents, whether it was his TV Title run, the Dangerous Alliance run, fighting Flair in 1995, the Doom brawls in 1990, Flair/Arn vs Hollywood Blondes etc. Dude was relentlessly entertaining in the ring and on the mic, 1992 is a career year for him where he looks to be the front-runner for best wrestler in the world.

Dustin might be an 'out there' pick to some, but his catalogue of matches is insane. Multitude of tags in the Dangerous Alliance feud, takes part in the GOAT WarGames match in 1992 and follows that up with another sterling effort in the 1994 Wargames, Bunkhouse Buck feud as well as the on and off Vader feud are super angles in their own right and he looks terrific in a variety of settings working against Windham, Larry Z, Arn, Pillman, Eaton and numerous others.

Flair...no explanation needed really. His 89 run speaks for itself with the Steamboat and Funk feuds, his matches with Sting helped establish Sting as the impending face of WCW, terrific run in 1993 with the Vader matches as well as working the Blondes, has a great 1994 with the two Hogan matches in particular being far better than they have any right to be, christ even in 1996 the dude is producing greatness whilst working the likes of Eddie and Big Show, and the Flair/Arn vs Savage/Hogan Nitro 1996 tag is too overlooked when it comes to great WCW tags.
 
#20 ·
Hard to choose a top five without a criteria in place but here goes-

5) Dean Malenko
4) Goldberg
3) Hollywood Hogan
2) Sting
1) Ric Flair

Honorable mentions to- Outsiders, Savage, Stieners, Luger, DDP, Guerrero, Vader

I might get ripped for this pick but Malenko was massively over with the fans (ex. Slamboree 98, or when ever he was going to apply texas cloverleaf) and was a top notch ring performer. His series with Ultimo Dragon, Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero produced some spectacular matches, and on top of that he gave the Crusierweight title credibility.

Pretty self explanitory that Goldberg is included on this list. Most over star of 1998 by far. Competed in one of the most anticipated title matches in history vs Hogan and is what kept the fans coming back throughout late 1998 and 1999. With out Bill there rating would have been worse then they were.

Hogan being the third man and the running mate of the outsiders revolutionized the wrestling buisness. With out Hogan, Hall and Nash creating the nWo there would have been no D-X and no late 90,s wrestling boom. I still believe Austin would have gotten hot otherwise but not near the level he was.

The franchise of WCW could do it all. His matches with Flair, Austin and Steamboat were some of the best matches of the early WCW. Even when he wasnt an in ring competitor fans still wanted to see what Sting would do next. Part of the biggest angle in WCW history and unfortunetly part of the early signs of the death of WCW. ex. Starrcade 1997

Hes just Ric Flair not much else needs to be said. He was certaintly the most over in WCW from its inception in 88 untill its close. Battles with Hogan, Steamboat, and Savage are legendary and even late in his career could bring fans to there feet either to boo him out of the building or cheer him. Saved WCW's ass more than once with Starrcade 93 being the prime example.
 
#23 ·
Top four are a lock, Sting, Flair, Hogan and Goldberg. Fifth spot I went against the grain choosing Vader over the popular choice of DDP. However, if Dusty had been included on the list, he would have had my vote.
 
#25 ·
I don't understand why you have Jericho, Benoit, Eddie, Mysterio, Sid or even Bret Hart on the list but no Steiner, Luger, Scott Hall, Arn Anderson, Barry Windham and so many others who definately deserve to be listed. As someone said, OP doesn't know much about WCW.

Based on the list (in this order): Sting, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, DDP & Kevin Nash. Not much love for Goldberg because you take the streak away and he blends in with Jerry Flynn and Roadblock. Booker T barely misses the top 5, was 1 of the top tag team wrestlers of the 90s and had a great series of TV Title matches with Benoit. Bret was a complete bust in WCW and Vader comes right after Booker T.

Matter of fact, 7 of the poll options won't even make my WCW top 10.
 
#27 ·
This is a great response.

Don't forget WCW exsisted as a company for years before the late 90's.

Arn Anderson is clearly th biggest ommision, but Widham, Steiner, Rude, even Muta belong before others. Correct me if I am wrong but I would not consider Dusty here because he was doing the polka dot thing when WCW got going well, and when he returned he was passed his prime.

I wish I could put Eaton here but the "greatest" to me simply means impact and draw and while I am a huge Eaton mark, he was never in this "air".


WCW
1. Flair
2. Sting
3. Goldberg
4. Hogan
5. Arn
6. Vader
7. Nash
8. Booker T
9. Steiner
10. Luger
 
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