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10 WCW World Title Challengers Nobody Remembers - The Butcher! Chuck Palumbo! Horace Hogan! The Yeti?!

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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These WCW World title challengers didn't live long in the memory. Gareth Morgan presents 10 WCW World Title Challengers Nobody Remembers...


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0:00.0

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From short and sweet squashes to long forgotten, four corners battles. These are the forgotten

0:47.2

matches that boasted WCW World Championship challenges next to nobody can honestly remember.

0:53.9

So if you hadn't guessed already, I'm Gareth from What Culture Wrestling and here are 10 WCW World

0:59.9

Heavyweight Championship challenges, nobody remembers.

1:03.1

10. Barbarian Halloween Havoc 1992

1:07.3

Many moons before he was playing cards, subping cold ones in the back,

1:11.3

and dealing out ass whoopings alongside Bradshaw on WWE television,

1:15.6

Ron Simmons reigned as the WCW World Champion in the early 90s. He was also the first African-American

1:22.1

star to hold, said title. And while his shocking title win against Vader and defences against the

1:27.9

likes of cactus Jack and Stevie Williams, how what most fans point to when recalling his run

1:33.1

at the top? Another less remembered powerhouse found himself going up against the eventual

1:37.7

feruk on a number of occasions around this time. Not long after parting ways with WWE in 1992,

1:44.4

the Barbarian was given a fairly strong push, forming an alliance with the aforementioned

1:49.4

Jack Tony Atlas, Jake Roberts and Butcher Reed. Before long he was going one on one with the

1:55.0

squad's bitter rival, Simmons at Halloween Havoc 92. And despite failing to prize the belt

2:00.7

away from the champ, he continued to war with him on the house circuit for a while after.

2:04.9

The monstrous Barbarian would also challenge Vader for the belt on a later episode of main event,

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