WCW's 10 Worst Storylines Ever (& How They Could Have Worked)

WCW having such a deep roster of all-time greats and great relevance for most of their run led to most talents being involved in big storylines. Successful ones like Hulk Hogan turning heel or Ric Flair ending Vader’s WCW Championship reign show the best results. However, there were other angles with potential that ultimate failed.

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Many fans and even the wrestlers working there blamed the creative minds for why WCW went out of business. Each of the worst angles to miss the mark deserve another look at what could have saved the day. A few changes could have changed history for the names involved. The following worst WCW storylines would have been better with these changes.

10 Sid's Weird Undefeated Streak: Winning WCW Championship

WCW signed Sid Vicious in 1999 with the goal of booking a strong undefeated streak. Sid was meant to be built up for most of the year for a huge showdown with Goldberg trying to top his 173-0 record. However, the streak of Sid was more of a joke with him attacking wrestlers and inflating his win total.

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A bigger problem for Sid was that he never felt as important as Goldberg or any other top star. Sid winning the WCW Championship would have been ideal since WCW started to experiment with new champs around that time. Goldberg dethroning Sid at the end would have helped their feud too.

9 The Black Scorpion: Nikita Koloff Instead Of Ric Flair

An early era mystery for WCW focused on the masked Black Scorpion character attacking Sting for months. WCW wanted to build a great mystery that would keep fans coming back until the revealing moment of Black Scorpion being unmasked.

The angle completely fell apart and was viewed as a failure when Ric Flair was the man behind the mask. Fans felt it was too cheap and predictable since Flair was already feuding with Sting. The reveal would have worked better with Nikita Koloff. WCW saw Koloff return shortly after this to have a bitter feud with Sting when they could have just extended The Black Scorpion mystery.

8 Ultimate Warrior Chasing Hulk Hogan: More Moments With Sting

WCW struggled to build any momentum from Ultimate Warrior joining the company despite it starting off as a big deal. Warrior haunted Hogan in promos reminding him of their history and backstage via mind games. The horrible match between the two may be the worst in wrestling history to completely kill the angle.

Fans view the brightest spot of Warrior’s WCW tenure featuring a reunion with Sting from their old tag team act as the Blade Runners. Sting and Warrior defeated Hogan and Bret Hart in a fun attraction. WCW keeping Warrior tied to Sting would have improved his chances at success.

7 New Blood Vs Millionaire's Club: Less Strict Babyface/Heel Roles

The 2000 rebranding of WCW saw the entire company being booked around the New Blood vs Millionaire’s Club. Almost every wrestler in the company joined one of the two stables, but it made little sense that every veteran was a babyface and every young talent as a heel.

WCW ruined the angle by turning it into such a black and white angle rather than implementing shades of grey. There should have been mixed roles for members of each group to have some heels and faces on each side with more personal feuds. WCW making all their young talents heel just felt like a way to ruin everyone’s momentum.

6 Raven Having A Rich Family: Forming A New Faction

Eric Bischoff placed Raven in a strange storyline that ruined everything about his grunge style character that thrived in ECW and found WCW mid-card success. The idea was that Raven would get exposed for lying about his troubled upbringing and lack of a family.

Raven’s mother showed up on television and took him home where he was revealed to be extremely rich. Former ECW names like The Sandman and Chastity were introduced here as either friends or rivals. An actual faction of ECW names led by Raven could have saved the angle, especially if playing into their need to be extreme.

5 NWO Elite: Goldberg Ending Them

The New World Order reuniting in 1999 featured the abysmal idea of the finger poke of doom forming the NWO Elite. Kevin Nash laid down for Hulk Hogan to pin him for the WCW Championship as the Wolfpac merged with Hollywood.

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It often gets overlooked that the NWO Elite united as a plan to get the title off Goldberg. The group even delivered an all-time vicious attack on Goldberg to start their run. WCW only had Goldberg getting revenge on Nash and Scott Hall. Hogan remained unscathed as the NWO Elite abruptly ended before Goldberg could take them down.

4 Sting's Heel Turn: Making Him A Tweener

WCW attempted to turn Sting heel for the first time in 1999 when he betrayed Hulk Hogan to cheat him out of the WCW Championship. The problem here was that WCW fans cheered Sting since they felt he deserved to use things to his advantage the way heels did against him for years.

Sting could not get anyone to boo him over the next few months and caused WCW to completely give up on the idea. WCW should have made Sting a tweener so that the idea they had could still play out and the fans would be more invested.

3 Goldberg Breaking Kayfabe: Winning WCW Championship Again

The wildest storyline Goldberg was forced to endure featured him attempting to break the fourth wall and convince fans that he was refusing to follow the script. Vince Russo’s absurd ideas and obsession with worked shoot angles that just confused fans in 2000. Goldberg has admitted that he hated working for Russo and thought this was a terrible idea.

The only thing that could have saved this would have been Goldberg winning the WCW Championship again. Fans wanted to see him win the top prize more than once and the worked shoot angle would have been more impactful if said talent breaking script did so to win the top world title.

2 Mystery Hummer Driver: Scott Steiner As Driver

WCW tried to create suspense with a mysterious white Hummer without an unknown driver attacking babyfaces. Kevin Nash was the main target during his babyface WCW Championship reign with unseen heels raising hell. Randy Savage and Sid Vicious being cleared as Nash’s main rivals had fans wanting a big reveal.

Eric Bischoff has shared on his podcast that he didn’t have an idea in mind for the driver and that was why WCW dropped the angle. A new main event act like Scott Steiner could have benefited immensely from being the driver. Steiner could have kickstarted his top heel run a year earlier with this angle.

1 The Giant As Andre's Son: Placing Past Andre Associates With Him

WCW started Big Show’s career off with a terrible storyline as Andre the Giant’s son trying to end Hulk Hogan once and for all. Andre not being alive made the angle tasteless to some fans, but the lack of reason for their association made it a failure for the rest of the viewers.

The Giant had nothing relating to Andre beyond the name and his gear. Other talents to have moments working with Andre like Bobby Heenan could have saved the idea. WCW fans instead just viewed this as a cheap way to recreate history for Hogan to overcome the odds yet again.