I had the pleasure of meeting Kanyon when he was still mortis in WCW. One night in Dayton when he was with Clark(( Wrath)). Both nice guys, and Kanyon was nice and buzzed on Crown and Coke
Perry Saturn is such a great pick! He had one of the best movesets, could work any style and had underrated charisma. It's a damn tragedy how life worked out for him but he is definitely a legend in every way!
Perry Saturn is a real-life superhero. Most of us know what he did to save the lady getting attacked. He should be a hall of famer in every wrestling hall of fame.
@@tdowell8615 Makes you think though. Would you have stepped up in that moment, or ran away to post a belittling comment in the safety of your mum"s basement.
@@thehoeslaper Fuck, I had been hoping for some good news on that front. He was one of my favorites and the Radicals (plus Jericho) were why I quit watching WCW and became a fulltime WWE fan
He’d actually just found a character that let him play up his strengths in his promos when he got cut… …but I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know
I appreciate the Blitzkrieg mention. That dude was amazing. I only saw him three or four times, and I still remember him over 20 years later. That is saying something.
It's a shame what happened to Saturn in years gone by. The guy was almost homeless at one point and now has some form of dementia from the drugs he was taking for so many years. Guy had the mic skills of a giraffe on xanex but his ring work was fantastic
@Awesome Sauce if Henning has stayed a horseman it would have been great for his career period ! Nwo was his demise , same with Norton maybe.... Vincent and discipal benefited the most lol
@@chrisreid688 was just watching WrestlingBios video on Curt and thinking that. Bad timing for Arn to retire because Flair, Arn, Benoit and Hennig as a serious group would have been tight. Hindsight is 20/20 if they were booked as a credible force against the NWO it would have made for interesting viewing.
Yeah that was the most disappointing thing about WCW back then. They had the best talent in the mid card while they pushed guys so big, they had to hug for 90% of their 15 minute matches from being gassed
One of the most hilarious gimmicks was Norman s big wiggle. I remember he did it to Perry Saturn lifted his dress and did it. Chuck Norris was in the front row cracking up 🤣🤣🤣
@@151-and-some I've been sitting here staring at the ceiling for about 15 minutes now and honestly.. I can't think of anyone better than Kanyon. I tried googling it but never got any definitive answers either.
I always thought Adam Bomb had the makings of a huge star in WWE. He had everything Vince wanted in a top guy & then, all of a sudden, he fell off the face of the Earth. Crazy
@@petesmart1983 Wasn't very good? TF are you talking about? Dude was a huge guy doing innovative moves and flying around the ring like a cruiserweight.. He invented the Pump Handle Slam before Test took started using it in 1999.. His offense always looked great. And for a guy who was 6'6 - 6'7 290 pounds, he could spring board into the ring from the apron without touch the tope rope with his body.. Had they continued to build him up as Wrath, the Goldberg - Wrath match would have been pure money.
This list is 10 guys. It easily could be 20 guys. It maybe could even go 30 guys. Imagine an entire royal rumble worth of guys that WCW dropped the ball on.
Oct.2000: I will never forget the end of wCw Thunder in Melbourne, Australia. Awesome won the Royal Rumble to become #1 contender for the Heavyweight World Title. As he celebrated, Goldberg entered the ring to do a "stare down" ...but the chants of Goldberg, Goldberg, switched to, Awesome, Awesome... Goldberg pointed at Awesome and gestured as if to say, the fans are right... Goldberg left the ring as the 10,000+ sell out crowd continued chanting Awesome. He looked so happy, the show closed with him alone in the ring, but the live event ended with him turning to the crowd before going backstage, as everyone was still chanting Awesome, Awwesome, Awwwesome!!
Honorable mention should go to Stevie Ray. Yeah, yeah, I know he was a big star with Harlem Heat but his singles run should’ve been much better than it was..
Crowbar and Daffney, along with Sean O’Haire and Sugar Shane Helms were my favorite wrestlers in the dying days of WCW. At least we got the Hurricane out of it all.
Sean O'Haire and Mark Jindrak too. It is well known that Jindrak was originally chosen to be member of Evolution, even appearing in the original titantron, before he was replaced with Batista.
Plus Pillman was already big, his problem wasn't the drugs or lack of pushes. Once he had that accident, his wrestling career was almost surely a wrap anyway. The drugs just made his death faster.
Not to mention his first few matches were against people who refused to help him look good and went out of their way to sandbag him. Jim Duggan, Buff Bagwell, ect.
@@titanhades4331 If wie dig into the problems of WCW at that time, we're here all night. :D I mean let's talk about Imperium/Ringkampf - another wasted Chance.
Love Alex Wright to this day. He should’ve won the U.S. Heavyweight Championship, and renamed the championship much like Lance Storm did upon his first few months in the company. Big shoutout to Das Wunderkind, thank you for your contributions, Alex Wright. 🇩🇪
@@thecommentator7017 he wasn’t on Brets level on the mic and connecting with the fans to get that world title push amazing wrestling only gets you so far but the most important thing is if you connect with the fans
If I could be serious for a moment... The company didn't know what to do with the ACTUAL Bret Hart, so it's not surprising that Lance didn't get a fair shake until the final chapter of WcW.
THE BIG WIGGLE!!!! Shawn O'Haire could've been so SO much!! That Devils Advocate Gimmick could've been something REALLY Special! Kanyon again sadly could've been an F'N Mega Star! I cant imagine how incredible his career could've been given a few well as you put it, stars aligning.
Raven should have been a part of the list. The most underrated wrestler in my opinion. The way he talked and moved around the ring was perfect. If I would have become a Pro Wrestler Scott Levy would be my mentor.
Perry Saturn was always one of my favorites. Ever since the first time I ever saw a show of the ORIGINAL ECW where tazz opened the show calling out sabu. The lights go out and when they came back on he got totally eliminated.
Crowbar was in WWE for a bit in 2003, he had a few matches on Velocity. He was never going to get much of a push though. Also it is worth noting Blitzkrieg started his career teaming with Super Dragon (even having some dark matches), but WCW passed on Dragon so they split. That would've been a great team if they'd kept them.
I was just randomly thinking about Norman Smiley the other day. I had no idea he was British, or had completely forgotten about it either way. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was always by far WCW's best Hardcore champion. I don't think anyone else really highlighted what that division was all about.
Sean O' Haire had it all and could of been a major player in WcW for the new generation. Imagine his wars Vs Wrath, Flash Norton, Kanyon ,e.t.c...The possibilities that should of been.
I was always a huge fan of Alex WRite, Norman Smiley, Wrath and Perry Saturn. It is a horrible shame that Perry, after taking a bullet while saving someone's life was abandoned by wrestling and everyone in it.
Crowbar is an awesome dude! Met him years ago when there was an event at my high school. He sat in the bleachers with my friend and I after the event for like 20 mins. He was telling me how he had a try out match for wwe with Andrew “test” Martin before he got big. Said he was a security guard from Motley Crue. Really talented wrestler
"the company was a sinking ship and nobody was really watching..." yeah right, nitro in 2001. drew regularly 3.5M viewers. in 2021. smackdown and raw struggle to get those numbers combined.
Crush, I truly believe given the right guidance he could of been a huge star! Granted his demolition run was (legion of) doomed but kinda crush did work had they put the IC title on him he could of used that to build a solid push, one point in time as a kid I genuinely thought he would slam Yokozuna and not lex Luger
@@JLvatron demolition crush, Kona crush, evil crush, nation of domination crush, Brian adams ah man the guy had so many layers of character development, Kronik destroying people was definitely a fond memory of mine from wcw
WCW had the best midcard division, hands down. The depth of talent they had, and the WCW executives squandered them in favor of pushing Hogan, who quite frankly, should’ve retired after he lost to Goldberg at the Georgia Dome.
I've heard it said that Brad Armstrong's major problem was that, on the mic, he tried to be his father Bullet Bob Armstrong. Jim Cornette said, Brad was one of the most naturally funny, quick witted guys in the locker room and he should have brought that out in his promos. If that had happened, who knows where he would have gone. He was one of the most gifted guys in the ring of his generation and had the reputation for being "a night off" among the other wrestlers.
Kanyon was so genius he invented moves in the ring DURING matches. Bryan “Wrath” Clark should have been given a Goldberg-like push. And he was way better in the ring than Goldberg.
Not to mention, Wrath had the best looking Pump Handle Slam. Along with Brian Adams, who utilized the Full Nelson Slam, two beefy men who were one of the bright spots of WCW in 2000. 🤘🏼
I agree with this entire list. Alex Wright for sure. Whenever I'm watching WCW, if I see an Alex Wright match, I stop and watch every second. Same for Brad Armstrong and Bobby Eaton. Those 3 VERY rarely had bad matches, even when Brad Armstrong was jobbing out every week, he still put on amazing matches.
Morris/Norton being presented as a Tag Team would fit perfect with both big men proving themselves an awesome tandem and actually reaching the WCW World Tag Team Titles and becoming dominant champs. Blitzkreig being presented in the Cruiserweight Division makes sense and having his character be more presented as a American obsessed with Luchador wrestling and dreaming of becoming Cruiserweight Champion.
Ernest "the cat" Miller should be number 1 on this list. The guy had an abundance of charisma, great promos, great character work, his in-ring work wasn't the greatest but he wasn't unsafe either.
Saturn was awesome ! Loved him since the Eliminators ! Him AND Kanyon would both be great in AEW . In a fantasy league I had toyed with out of boredom 5 years or so ago Saturn would have been on top if not champ at some point along with Austin Aries lol ! That's where my head was !
Time out bro Wcw champ??? Jesus Christ !!! thankfully you wasn’t booking or wcw would’ve went out of business a lot earlier ...I think it’s soooooooooo hilarious that across the pond they just don’t understand “sports entertainment “ lol being technically sound does not equal money ...this is the wrestling “business “ where the object is to make money lmao sell tickets merch etc characters draw money not technical wrestling n gymnastic flip guys ...I hate to keep making this point ..but I wonder why there’s never been a global U.K promotion ??? O yea because they don’t get it lmao just imagine seeing The Rock as the world champion one show then flipping the channel and the world champion is lance “dry as wheat toast no charisma having ass” storm as the competitors champion lmao 😂 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣 easily the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever heard of in my entire life
Perry Saturn is someone who deserves the respect of everyone. He saved a woman from getting attacked by two fools who had to shoot him to get him to stop kicking their asses. It's a real tragedy what happened to him after he left the wrestling business.
Oh please he had a match with a jobber with Melena (Goldusts wife) and he nearly broke the guys neck, not only that he continued being stiff to the point even she had to tell him to lay off. He was so stiff he literally nearly killed the guy. He proved himself unsafe & unprofessional. His only claim to fame in WCW was being the first guy to last ten minutes in the ring with Goldberg. He was just a guy who followed raven around & looked tough. Besides that he did nothing noteworthy. No Us title run, no tag title run, no major storyline. Heck the guys a drug addict now & has resorted to starting a go fund me page. You know why? Because he does drug's.
I Remember Bryan Clarke debuting as The NightStalker with Ox Baker. That could have been lethal but Clarke was still so very green at the time and Ox’s health was not so good. I saw and met both of them at the time I was a college student near Ox’s hometown in Sedalia Mo. Both we very nice and talked for quite a bit with them.
Saturn killed his own push, kicked the shit out of his opponent for real during his match. After that he was pretty much done. Then shifted to a trainer. Then he spiraled down a bad path
Big shoutout @ Wrestling Bios for spotlighting Das Wunderkind Alex Wright. You’re a jam up guy, Ryan. Same with Cultaholic, thank you lads for highlighting the underrated talent who should’ve gone further in WCW.
Ya I just popped hearing Blitzkrieg on this list. I know everyone loves their Reys, Eddies, Kidman, and ummm...I don't know, El Dandys? But Blitzkrieg was my favorite.
No reference to Prince Iaukea? Like Alex Wright, Iaukea won the WCW World TV and Cruiserweight Titles as well had a gimmick change during his time there.
Perry Saturn was so good he was U S Army Ranger. I loved Saturn I still think highly of him . Kenyon was so great it's too bad he never got the push he so tightly deserves whose better than Kayon?
