Top 5 WCW Superstars That Were Buried By The WWE

 

In the late 1990s, professional wrestling in America was at the peak of its popularity with Nitro and Raw duking it out during The Monday Night Wars and then there was ECW who were different from The WWE and WCW where there were extreme hardcore matches, raunchy angles, etc.

The worst day for me as a wrestling fan came when WCW died in 2001 because of the key players in Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Vince Russo that had a hand in killing WCW. One of the main issues why WWE has lost so many fans over the past decade is not only because of too many filler matches, promos, and segments with bad storylines and 50/50 booking, but also the lack of a true competitor that will push WWE to make changes to its product like WCW did in the late 1990s.

Here are top 5 WCW superstars that were buried by The WWE

1. Goldberg - I was a real big fan of Goldberg when he was in his prime back during The Nitro Era where he was basically booked back then similar to how Roman Reigns is booked today: The Superman that overcame all odds and come out on top. But when Goldberg signed with WWE in 2003, he made a memorable debut in Raw spearing Hollywood Rock and then going on to defeating him at Backlash which started his push for four months until the second elimination chamber match that happened at Summerslam where he literally destroyed Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, and Randy Orton until he was buried by The WWE when they let their then-backstage politicial golden boy Triple H beat him by hitting him with the sledgehammer and getting the win. Goldberg's first run with the WWE wasn't as successful as his second run was last year as he was inducted into this year's WWE Hall Of Fame.

2. Sting - Sting is undoubtedly one of the greatest wrestlers to have ever stepped foot inside of a wrestling ring as he wrestled mostly as a face throughout his wrestling career beating up bad guys either random or turned on him like Ric Flair, Lex Luger, and many others have done. I remember first watching him when was Wolfpac Sting during the peak of The Nitro Era in 1998 and then I saw him change to his crow gimmick coming from the rafters with a long black leather jacket with his signature black baseball bat. He also had a decent run in TNA (now known as Impact Wrestling), but when he decided to sign with WWE several years ago, I remember not being a fan of that decision because I remember thinking, "They're gonna bury him" and sure enough they did by putting the final nail in the coffin of WCW at WM31. He would officially retire from wrestling and he was also inducted into The 2015 WWE Hall Of Fame.

3. Booker T - Booker T had such a successful decorated career in WCW winning The World Heavyweight Championship 5 times, The WCW Tag Team Title with his real life brother Stevie Ray 10 times, The WCW World Television Title 6 times, The WCW US Champion 1 time, and The 9th WCW Triple Crown Champion. But the first of numerous burials that happened in his WWE career happened during the infamous "Invasion" angle in 2001 where he was not only buried by certain WWE wrestlers in promos, but his WCW career was buried when he lost the World Heavyweight Title at Summerslam of that year. Then in 2003, he had gotten over with the fans and was thrown into one of the most controversial storylines in WWE history that resulted in Triple H burying him during promos using racially insensitive remarks like "You're just a nappy headed entertainer who entertains people" and "guys like you don't deserve to be World Champion" and then at Wrestlemania XIX, just when Booker T had the match won, WWE buried him again by putting their then-backstage political golden boy Triple H over him and this would keep him stuck on the mid-card for several years until he was drafted to Smackdown where he became World Champion and then he left WWE in October 2007 because of how badly his character was booked via constantly burying him and then he did much better in TNA and eventually came back to WWE and was inducted into The 2013 WWE Hall Of Fame.

4. Diamond Dallas Page - He was one of the most popular and successful stars that WCW had especially during its peak years in the late 1990s where he won The World Heavyweight Championship three times, The WCW US Title two times, The WCW World Tag Team Titles four times, and WCW World Television Title one time and The fourth WCW Triple Crown Champion. When he was in the WWE, he was thrown into a very horrible storyline where he was portayed as a "stalker" that was stalking Undertaker's then-wife Sara and then ended up getting beaten by The Undertaker which immediately resulted in him being buried by The WWE.

5. Buff Bagwell - Buff Bagwell had a pretty decent run as a mid-carder during WCW's peak years in the late 1990s where he won The WCW World Tag Team Title 5 times and when he got to WWE in 2001, it was quite obvious that Buff Bagwell was also gonna be buried by The WWE as evidenced in his poor showing against Booker T that not onlt killed any chance of a "WCW revival", but also killed his career in WWE.

The Conclusion - I definitely miss WCW because they had better storylines and a better product during its peak years in the late 1990s unlike thus garbage WWE product today that has alienated and turned away many fans and viewers.

By Kwame Shakir