top 50 WCW wrestlers of all time

recently the WWE.com ran a feature of (in their opinion) the top 50 WCW wrestlers of all time. the list is as follows:

1. Sting
2. Ric Flair
3. "Hollywood" Hogan
4. Goldberg
5. Kevin Nash
6. Diamond Dallas Page
7. Lex Luger
8. Booker T
9. "Macho Man" Randy Savage
10. Scott Steiner
11. Big Van Vader
12. Scott Hall
13. Dean Malenko
14. "Psycho" Sid Vicious
15. "Stunning" Steve Austin
16. Ron Simmons
17. Arn Anderson
18. Eddie Guerrero
19. The Giant
20. Brian Pillman
21. Rick Steiner
22. Rey Mysterio
23. Barry Windham
24. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
25. Eric Bischoff
26. Rick Rude
27. Chris Jericho
28. Buff Bagwell
29. Billy Kidman
30. Raven
31. The Great Muta
32. Lance Storm
33. Terry Funk
34. Konnan
35. Lord Steven Regal
36. Ultimo Dragon
37. Cactus Jack
38. Michael "P.S." Hayes
39. Curt Hennig
40. Kevin Sullivan
41. Bret "Hit Man" Hart
42. Dustin Rhodes
43. Saturn
44. Bobby Eaton
45. Kanyon
46. Larry Zbyszko
47. Meng
48. Dennis Rodman
49. Juventud Guerrera
50. Jeff Jarrett

so what do people think of this list? Any glaring omissions from the list (Benoit maybe?) anyone too high or too low on the list? Or even anyone who on there who doesn't really deserve to be on there at all (ahem, Dennis Rodman!!)

David Arquette!!

Jarrett at 50 is horseshit!

Would've placed Raven higher.

Where do I start.........

1. The following shouldn't be on this list: Rodman, Curt Hennig, Randy Savage (or at least not as high), Bret Hart.

2. Vader should be in the top 5, Pillman in the top 10, Rude in the top 15, Cactus Jack in the top 15

3. Benoit should be on the list (but no surpise that he was missed)

Give me 15mins to have my coffee and I will give it a bit more in-depth look.

Oh boy......

TwisT wrote:Where do I start.........

1. The following shouldn't be on this list: Rodman, Curt Hennig, Randy Savage (or at least not as high), Bret Hart.

2. Vader should be in the top 5, Pillman in the top 10, Rude in the top 15, Cactus Jack in the top 15

3. Benoit should be on the list (but no surpise that he was missed)

Give me 15mins to have my coffee and I will give it a bit more in-depth look.

Oh boy......

I pretty much agree with the top 5, but also agree Pillman and Vader should be higher.

"Stunning" Steve Austin shouldn't be as high as top 15, was he really that memorable in WCW?? Jarrett should be top 25.

Beniot and La Parka are the only 2 that i can think of who deserve to be on the list.

No Chavo Guerrero??

My personal top 10 would be:

1. Sting
2. Ric Flair
3. Hollywood Hogan
4. Goldberg
5. Vader
6. Hall
7. Nash
8. Pillman
9. Page
10. Bischoff

11-20 is hard. Anderson, Booker T, Rude, Windham and The Steiners should be in it, but the placing is hard. I would probably put Rude at 11.

Bischoff is an unique one as he isn't a wrestler. I would still place him high. If talking about pure wrestling, I would swap him with Rude.

TwisT wrote:My personal top 10 would be:

1. Sting
2. Ric Flair
3. Hollywood Hogan
4. Goldberg
5. Vader
6. Hall
7. Nash
8. Pillman
9. Page
10. Bischoff

11-20 is hard. Anderson, Booker T, Rude, Windham and The Steiners should be in it, but the placing is hard. I would probably put Rude at 11.

Bischoff is an unique one as he isn't a wrestler. I would still place him high. If talking about pure wrestling, I would swap him with Rude.

top 10 i'd go: 1. Sting, 2. Flair, 3. Goldberg, 4. Hogan, 5. Kevin Nash, 6.Vader, 7. Booker T, 8. DDP, 9. The Giant, 10. Scott Hall.

Randy Savage, Sid Vicious, Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, Lex Luger, Rey Mysterio, Arn Anderson, Rick Rude, Brian Pillman, Ron Simmonds filling 11 - 20 (but not in that order).

Good to see Sting get the recognition he deserves. The man was WCW in more ways than one.

In the top ten maybe drop Savage and Steiner for Vader and Hall.

Thinking about it, Hall's appearance on Nitro on that fateful day back in 1996 should make him top 10 alone. It's the beginning of everything that Wrestling is today.

Have no idea why Jeff Jarret is 50. K K K K Kevin Nash should be 3rd in my view and Hulk Hogan should be 2nd moving Flair down the order.

NickisBHAFC wrote:Have no idea why Jeff Jarret is 50. K K K K Kevin Nash should be 3rd in my view and Hulk Hogan should be 2nd moving Flair down the order.

Can I ask why? We are not talking about a particular period (even though everyone is viewing the NWO era very highly), but the whole of WCW. That is why I rate Pillman and Vader highly. In my opinion the top five has to have Vader, Sting and Flair in. The other top ten you can make arguements for and against their places.

JJ, like him or hate him, was the face of WCW during the last years. He deserves to be on that list, and certainly higher than Rodman.

its got to be people personal views on JJ and Benoit (y JJ is at 50 and CB is not on the list) rather then there views on there wrestling ability.

NickisBHAFC wrote:Have no idea why Jeff Jarret is 50. K K K K Kevin Nash should be 3rd in my view and Hulk Hogan should be 2nd moving Flair down the order.

contentious point, would Jeff Jarrett be higher on the list if he wasn't such a predominant figurehead within TNA?

I know there are a lot of guys on the list who have TNA connections (Hogan, Sting, Nash, Booker T etc.) but their overall legacy will be remembered more for their work within WCW or WWE rather than with TNA.

TwisT wrote:

NickisBHAFC wrote:Have no idea why Jeff Jarret is 50. K K K K Kevin Nash should be 3rd in my view and Hulk Hogan should be 2nd moving Flair down the order.

Can I ask why? We are not talking about a particular period (even though everyone is viewing the NWO era very highly), but the whole of WCW. That is why I rate Pillman and Vader highly. In my opinion the top five has to have Vader, Sting and Flair in. The other top ten you can make arguements for and against their places.

JJ, like him or hate him, was the face of WCW during the last years. He deserves to be on that list, and certainly higher than Rodman.

Superb point. The WCW in the late 80's early 90's had some amazing talent.

You have to bear in mind that WCW underwent some many internal transitions in the early days of Ted Turner. So many bookers came and went and under Dusty in that period had some solid performers.

How Magnum TA is not on that list is beyond me. He was phenominal in the day and for the likes of Flair to rate his star quality on the same level as Austin in the WWE.

Good shout.

Sitting here thinking about it, to compile a list like this for WCW would be a lot easier (for me personally) without those in the NWO era.

NWO distorts things too much, because it was such a huge thing. However, in the scheme of the total WCW era, I do not rate those that took part beyond Hogan, Nash and Hall. I feel a bit pushed into including them.

Another name I have thought of: Jushin Liger. He would be in my top 20.

Jushin Liger was quality. I remember some of his matches in Japan on the old Eurosport. Way ahead of his time!!

I would say he should be on that list, and is probably the best cruiserweight on their if he was.

Top 10 is fairly ok, but the waters start getting a bit muddy after that I.E Malenko @ 13! Just coz the guy is a WWE agent!.....

I'd have Hogan @ 1 though as him joining the nWo was the single biggest reason for WCW becoming number one, without Hogan they'd of never got there.

1. Hogan
2. Flair
3. Sting
4. Goldberg
5. Nash
6. DDP
7. Vader
8. Hall
9. Booker T
10. Savage

Brady !!!!!!

Back for Good ???????????

NickisBHAFC wrote:Brady !!!!!!

Back for Good ???????????

We'll see bud not happy with the product entirely but curiosity got the better of me hearing Lesnar was back. Have give it a few weeks before I felt I could comment again so I can get a feel for the landscape... Hopefully back for a while who knows...

Can you give us your word that your never ever going away?

NickisBHAFC wrote:Can you give us your word that your never ever going away?

Probably not but I'm 32 & I've been watching on & off since Wrestlemania 7 so I'm stuck with it forever I guess

NickisBHAFC wrote:Can you give us your word that your going away?

Fixed that for you