My Ranking of Every WCW Champion (1993-2002)

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22. Vince Russo

We start with Russo bro. The former writer of WCW made himself champion since they were trying to draw a larger audience of casual fans. That’s gonna put butts in seats, right Tony?

21. David Arquette

Now I could make jokes about Arquette but he had no control over winning the belt. Plus it was to promote a movie. I guess if he was an actual wrestler at the time like he is today it would have been different. Maybe next time.

20. Chris Benoit

Beniot definitely deserved this belt more than he won it in real life. I wish when he was with the horsemen in the late 90’s he would have held the belt more.

19. Kurt Angle

The Gold Medalist really worked hard to win this championship and he deserved it. I wish we could see him go up again and win a championship.

18. Jeff Jarrett

J-E-Double F J-A-Double R-E-Double T has always been one of my favorite wrestlers. I loved him in WWF and I think he was underrated in WCW. Now he won the belt which is good but he was also a part of the Bash At The Beach Incident. That’s a different video tho.

17. DDP

It’s Me, It’s Me, It’s DDP. The stalker of Undertaker's wife turned on a dime in the late 90’s. He was always a face in WCW. Winning the championship three times. The first time on pay-per-view at Spring Stampede and again on Nitro 2 weeks later after dropping it to Sting earlier that night.

16. The Rock

Dwayne won the WCW Championship from Booker T at SummerSlam 2001, Dropping it two months later to Chris Jericho, won it back and dropped to Jericho again to unify the WWF and WCW titles making Jericho the first ever Undisputed Champion.

15. Bret Hart

Hart is on the list of athletes that leave company,sport and teams and don’t do as well in the new company,sport or team. He got concussed and then retired but before he retired he got a couple runs out of this. If you count runs as winning it from goldberg, being stripped, winning it again and vacating it again because of a legit injury.

14. Lex Luger

Now if this was a rank of the best wrestlers from WCW, Lex would not be this high. He’s a big guy but he’s almost immoveable. Never the best wrestler but they gave him a few different runs with the belt. This is the reason Vince gave him the WWE Belt as well. He’s a big guy who used to pretend to be Hulk Hogan after he left WWE.

13. Scott Steiner

Steiner was one of the last WCW World Heavyweight Champion before dropping it to Booker T in Panama City Beach. Holding it for 120 days from WCW’s last PPV Mayhem in a Straitjacket Steel Cage Match from Booker T. Why did WCW have all these double or triple gimmick matches? Anyway.

12. Kevin Nash

Between Nash’s 5 reigns as WCW world heavyweight champion, he only spent 97 days as champion and is always remembered, just as Cena later, as a huge part of the main event scene even if he wasn’t champion or fighting for the title. He squashed Goldberg’s streak for really no reason. I wonder who was booking the show back then.

11. Sid Vicious

Sid was only champion twice in early 2000 but everything happened in like a week and on tape delay. Vicious has a 77 combined day reign. Sid was also WWE Champion twice before he swapped companies. He’s a wrestler that never needed a belt but was given to him anyway. A big guy with no mobility. Genius.

10. Randy Savage

OOHHHH YEEEAAHHHH! Randy Savage was one of the greatest of all time. 13 time world champion. 4 with wwe, 2 with wcw. I love watching Randy Savage work, his promos were the best of all time. However his runs with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship were less than he deserved. The most of one of these runs was 31 days and it goes to a day. Whereas Hulk has year runs. But he’s coming up, don't worry.

9. Goldberg

Listen I don’t like Goldberg. Then why is he at 9 above Savage i hear you typing in the comments. Well for one simple reason, Goldberg’s days as champion is twice as much with only one reign instead of 5 or 6 like some champions. Going on a record 173-0 winning streak. Asterisk applied.

8. Big Van Vader

Vader won his first two WCW World Heavyweight Championships on July 12th and December 30th 1992 with his third reign being March 17th on a house show loop in Ireland. The first two reigns were 92 days combined where his third reign added 285 days losing it to Ric Flair at Starrcade 10th Anniversary

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7. Hulk/ Hollywood Hogan

Hogan won his first WCW Championship on July 17th, 1994 at Bash At The Beach. 2 years later at the same show he debuted on, he turned heel and created the NWO. At Hog Wild this was the first of many reigns for Hollywood Hogan and after he won it he spray painted the NWO letters and made one of the most iconic belts of all time.

6. The Giant

Debuting in 1995 at Slamboree, The Giant was billed as Andre’s son. As this was the story, Paul Wight won the belt from Hulk Hogan after his first reign lasted 469 days. Giant was then stripped of the belt on Nitro, and wouldn’t regain it until April 22nd 1995 on a Nitro. This was his last reign and lost it to Hogan when he sprayed the NWO letters on the belt.

5. Sting

Sting first won the title at Superbrawl 2, winning it from Lex Luger after 230 days. Losing it to Vader 134 days later and won it back on the same House Show loop that Vader won it in Ireland for the last time. Winning it a handful of time, his last reign came at Fall Brawl winning it from Hollywood Hogan, losing it after 43 days. Sting was stripped of this belt after losing an unsanctioned match and attacking charles robinson at Halloween Havoc.

4. Chris Jericho

Jericho was in WCW in the mid-to-late 90’s but never won the belt. He had to wait till he jumped ship and for WWF to buy WCW for him to win this belt and Chris Jericho became the unifier of the WWF and WCW Championships.

3. Ron Simmons

Who would be number 3 if it wasn’t one of the greatest. Ron Simmons debuted in 1986, after playing American Football. Simmons beat the monster heel, Big Van Vader with a snap scoop slam on WCW’s Main Event show. Simmons held the belt for 150 days losing it to Vader on the same European house show loop we discussed earlier.

2. Booker T

Beginning as a tag team wrestler with his brother Stevie Ray as Harlem Heat, Booker T won his first WCW title on July 9th 2000. Losing it to Kevin Nash on a Nitro after 50 days. He won it back from Nash, lost it to Vince Russo, won it again after Russo decided he was not a wrestler, lost it to Big Poppa Pump and became the last champion in WCW history in Panama City Florida. Booker won it once more from Kurt Angle on RAW IS WAR and became the 5 time champion.

1. Ric Flair

And of course, who else would be #1? Ric Flair, the jet flying, limousine ridin;, kiss stealin;, wheelin dealin; son of a gun. The only wrestler with more than 6 reigns but less combined days, 2nd only to Hulk Hogan. Flair was the first ever NWA WCW champion, winning it at a house on January 11th, 1991 in East Rutherford New Jersey. Holding it for 171 days, he was stripped after appearing on WWF TV with the championship. Flair would hold this title 7 more times, holding it for a WWE Recognized combined days of 505.