So there was a time when WCW was the most popular promotion on the planet and a lot of wrestlers

wanted to work there. There's even a story about Sean Michaels having a hissy fit backstage at WWE and him yelling at Vincent Kennedy McMahon, I'm going to go to World Championship Wrestling, but he was under contract and it didn't happen. There's no way he would have said that in the year 2000, because that is the funniest 12 months of pro wrestling ever likely to see. and well, even if you were a Superdibble with a big star,

sometimes quite clearly you still didn't like working there because my name is Simon Miller. And yep, you've seen the title. It's time to go back in time with eight wrestlers. The visibly hated, Verking for World Championship Wrestling. Number eight, Bobby Heenan. So in case you don't know, please do Google it today. But Bobby Heenan is one of the best color commentators slash managers in wrestling history. The man was so damn funny, the World Wrestling Federation gave him his own talk show. And surprise, surprise, he was great of that too. His work goes all the way back to the 1970s as well until he did hurt his neck, so he started to focus on away the ring stuff. But any time he was behind the booth, good grief he was just so damn good at this, especially when he teamed up with Gorilla Monsoon. Still get a tear in my eyes sometimes, when I hear those old broadcast, there's something to the voices. Towards the end of 1993, though, he did leave the WWE to join Mean Gene Oakland, who had also jumped across to WCW, because once again, the mainstream wrestling divide was growing and you went where you get the most money. Now something a lot of people did notice from the brain when he did join World Championship wrestling is that maybe just maybe we weren't getting his best years on the call. I want to make this very clear, he is still levels above everybody else. But as we would find out after the fact, Bobby Heenan didn't actually like working there. He was having to tell anyone that would listen, that the whole outfit was not run as

professionally as he would have hoped, and it was nothing compared to the WWF. The one stage, he even said, well, you know what, I am going to get good money, so I'll just hit here and get the most out of it. It's not like him and Tony Chavani didn't have good chemistry because they did and do not forget some of the announcements he did make when Hulk Hogan was going heel.

But sure, if you do compare this some of the announcements he did make when Hulk Hogan was going heel.

But sure, if you do compare this to, say, the 1992 Raw Rumble, which is a goat performance, well, it just doesn't feel like Bobby the Brain Heenan enjoyed working in WCW. There's even stories out there that it was Bobby that went to the higher-ups and said, why are you lying about Goldberg's Winstreet numbers? We don't need to do that. You can do it live and on TV.

They didn't listen to him.

And yeah, surprise, surprise fans did get pissed off about that because they would turn up at shows with signs that would say 82-0 and all of a sudden it was 87-0 because WTCW had made up some fake wins. And that really was quite stupid. Number seven, Scott Steiner. With big bubble pump, you don't have have to worry about the visible bit, because sometimes he would take the microphone and tell you, this place sucks, I don't want to be here anymore. And I think so that's got, at least we know. Now, of course, when Steiner did leave the tag team division behind to become a single star, he absolutely made this work. I mean, look at the iconic look you can see on your screen right now. Everybody from a certain generation remembers this, mostly because Scott Steynard looked like an insane person. If we do go to the February 7th, 2000 edition of Nitro though, Scott was mere months away from becoming the world champion. Therefore, it was important that he cut some big-time promos when he took the microphone and said, I watched a 53-year-old man who has more loose skin than a sharp-pay puppy come

out here and say he's still the man. Rick Flair, he was supposed to be the limousine riding, jet-flying son of a gun, but I'm saying one time, you should have taken a cab and used that money to fix your crooked teeth. Now, I'm sure you're wondering to yourself, well, I'm sure it was Scott Steiner versus Rick Flair for that WCW old title.

Nope, he just really didn't like the nature boy.

He then carried this on by saying when you Flair walked down the aisle, the people at home, they grabbed the remote and changed the channel to the WWF and watched Stone Cold Steve Austin, a person you and your old friends got fired here. That's because you're an old jealous bastard. Rick Flair, remember this too

in this wrestling business. There has never been a bigger ass kisser butt stuck in bastard but also in life and you belong where in WCW because WCW sucks and so do you. But can you imagine if you were backstage and you were paying Scotty Starner's paychecks? You can like no one wrote this down. Why is he inside the company and why the flubble you amount to make him a world champion. Even better than this is that the punishment for the big booty

daddy was to send him home with full pain. That's right, they just gave him some weeks off the schedule and surprise, surprise and he did come back. He still didn't give a damn. I mean, what do they think was going to happen? Number six, Paul Roma. So this was either a moment of madness or integrity shining through, but Paul Roma actually brought his WCW run and subsequently his mainstream TV wrestling career to a total stands deal when he disagreed with his character and he wasn't going to shut up about it. Now, of course, once upon a time, he was part of a reworked four horsemen stable, which is never a bad spot. And at Super Bowl 5, he did tangle with Alex Wright. Now, that match did not go to plan, and even on message boards today, people will post clips from it and say, what the flubbers going on here. I mean, sometimes things don't go the way you want them to go. There is actually a big reason for this, though, and it ties into what we just talked about. After poor Roma had been told, I'm really sorry you have to lose to Alex Wright. He was so incensed by this. He essentially walked to the ring and decided to do a whole lot of nothing. I mean, even when he is getting beaten up, he sells it like nothing is going on. I mean, you've never seen a wrestler more straight-faced. And of course, he kicks out at 3.1. Anytime you do see that, it usually means the person being beat is upset about this,

because you never do that unless it's going to tie into an angle.

And that is rare, man. Someone's going to beat you, they've got to beat you. Some people actually timed this one of stopwatch too and said that Roma actually kicked out of 2.9, but the ref counted him out anyway. And have a guess what happened 24 hours later. Paul Rymer was gone from WCW, and I suppose his word spread throughout the industry what he had done,

well, he was really hired anywhere else. Not sure this was a good idea, but good for you, dude, good for you. Number 5, McFoly. Now, Mick Foley didn't make this clear until he got to ECW, and if you go watch any of his work in World Championship Wrestling as Cactus Jack, you will not have a clue. That man went out there every single time and busted his ass. When he did arrive at Extreme Championship Wrestling, though, he did a couple of things that did make you raise an eyebrow. The first being, he still had the WCW tag team title, and he threw it on the ground. He then basically spat on it. And the most interesting part about this in 1994 is that Mick Fody was kind of still associated with WCW. He'd just been allowed time to head to ECW because he wanted a dream match with Saboo. I mean, the very idea of that contest lit the wrestling community of Blaze. This was the coming together of two men considered to be the wildest in the business, so you have to do it in the wildest place, and that was ECW. It was during the build-up too when Foley went to Paul Heyman's mum's basement to cut one of these

promos that he did take that championship, and I suppose desecrated, if we can use that word. And of course he was aware this would get back to WCW management. It may be the mid-90s, but people still talked. Foley was also more than candid talking about his issues with the then-Booker Rick Flair, which is the second time he's come up with this list.

But ultimately it came down to the fact that he wasn't happy in WCW,

mostly because A, they weren't booking his character very well, and B, my gosh, they put him a lot of dumb stories, like that one time where Cactus Jack, who was meant to be a crazy person, essentially lost his memory when walk around being a bit weird. There was no payoff to that either because it was WCW, but you can go watch his promos for yourself right now, and if you think he is pleased in WCW, or you're a better man than me, you're looking for the best. Number 4, Eddie Guerrero. So really all four of the radicals could be included in this list because they left WCW after realizing there's a glass ceiling here, you don't think we're

big enough to do the job, so you know what, we're just going to go somewhere else. That do not forget as well that Eddie Guerrero, D. Malinko, Chris Benoit and Perry sat and had been around in WCW where they were the hottest thing of all time, and they had no clue how the WW was going to treat them. I mean, Vince McMahon's world was even more land of the giants, but they were so stick of how Eric Bischoff treated them, they were like, you know what, we're all going, we're not going to sign a new deal, and let's go see what happens over on Raw. In many ways, this was WCW crumbling under the weight of its own success in 1998, because it was a lot of the undercard that had helped built this company to become as big as it was. Not trying to pretend that Hulk Cogan New World Order weren't the most over thing ever,

but if you didn't have some of these cruiser waits, I don't think WCW would have been as popular as it went on to be. There is one specific story we do have to talk about as well, and there are multiple reports confirming this, but as Eric Bischoff and Eddie Guerrero had to chat backstage one day, Bischoff threw a coffee to the ground in anger and some of that splashed on Guerrero, or if you want to listen to Part 2, the hot drink went directly on Latino Heat. Either way, when it did come time for Guerrero to cut a worksheet promo on the August 17th edition of Nitro, he did talk about this coffee incident, he did talk about how much WW sucked, and he also talked about how much he didn't like Eric Bischoff.

It all came down to the fact he was disillusioned, though, and again, that's the same with Chris Benoit. WGW was so desperate to stop him going to the WWF. They made him the world heavyweight champion. What did Chris do? He still jumped across, because much like Eddie Guerrero, he was done with this ship. Number three, Hulk Hogan. So it is kind of crazy that the 1996 success story of WCW is related to Hulk Hogan going heel, and then you jump forward four years, and one of the reasons if it ran on the floor is because of Hulk Hogan. It really came down to the fact that in that four-year period he had just beaten anybody and not really handed the torch to anybody else. It goes back to our last entry. That's why a lot of the undercart talent were fed up with WCW.

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