Who’s Next? 25 Picks For The WWE Hall Of Fame Class Of 2014By John Hancock| May 12, 2013 Wrestling Blogs Previous Page WCW Goldberg Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content If WCW did one thing right, it was Goldberg. A former football player, Bill Goldberg was talent-scouted in the nightclubs of Atlanta, quickly trained, and then put into a simple but effective winning streak storyline that quickly saw him become the company’s most popular baby-face. His career peaked in July of 1998, when he defeated Hulk Hogan to become WCW Champion in his hometown of Atlanta Georgia, setting an attendance record for the company in the process. Goldberg played no part in the Invasion angle, but did eventually join the WWE in 2003 for a short run which ended the next year. During his career, Goldberg was a one time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, a one time WWE World Heavyweight Champion, a two time WCW United States Champion and a one time WCW World Tag Team Champion. Should Be Inducted By: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin “Macho Man” Randy Savage Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Although Savage is just as famous for his WWF career, it’s in WCW that the Macho Man spent the last days of his mainstream wrestling career, retiring in 2000 (save for a brief appearance in TNA in the mid-2000s). Throughout his career, Savage was a star, both as a baby-face in teams like the zeitgeist-defining Mega-Powers, or as a heel in stables like the industry-revolutionising New World Order. Savage was involved in high level feuds with the likes of Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior and Ric Flair. Macho Man passed away in 2011 at the age of just 58, and the reaction to his death from the main stream media told us everything we need to know about this man’s status as a genuine pop-culture icon. Unfortunately, his reputation, post-retirement, has been dogged by controversial and, as yet, unfounded rumours about his relationship with the McMahon family, often cited as the reason such a figurehead of the industry is still without a place in the Hall of Fame. Over the course of his career, Savage was a two time WWF Champion, a four time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and a one time WWF Intercontinental Champion. Should Be Inducted By: Lanny Poffo Sting Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Out of all the wrestlers who never stepped foot in a WWE or WWF ring, perhaps the greatest is Sting. Before joining WCW, Sting was already well known to wrestling fans in the south-eastern United States thanks to his epic feud with Ric Flair in the NWA, but, it was in 1996 that he became the poster boy for WCW, donning his iconic Crow-esque make-up, and becoming the company’s dark guardian in the face of the NWO invasion lead by Hogan, Nash and Hall. Terrorising WCW first mentally, and then physically, Sting became the face of the company, and it’s most obvious and identifiable star. When WCW was bought by the McMahon’s, it was Sting who was given the honour to win the company’s last ever match, defeating old enemy Ric Flair. The WWE has been trying to sign Sting ever since, from the moment they bought the company up until recent attempts to hold a match between Sting and The Undertaker at WrestleMania, but, so far, such efforts have been fruitless. Despite this frustration, WWE still saw fit to announce Sting as the greatest wrestler in the history of WCW on it’s website. Still an active member of TNA’s roster, Sting has won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, the WCW World Tag Team Championship, the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and a plethora of other belts, titles and accolades. Should Be Inducted By: The Undertaker Lex Luger Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Wrestling’s ultimate “should have been”. The next Flair, the next Hogan, the next star of WCW, Luger has always been the bridesmaid, but never the bride. That said, his role in wrestling history is undisputed, from his feud against the Four Horseman in the NWA in the late 80s, to his main event run as The All-American in the mid-90s, to his debut on the first ever WCW Monday Night Nitro in 1995, to his feud with the New World Order in the mid-90s, and, finally, his last main event push as The Total Package in the late 90s and early 2000s. Since 2011, Luger has been a part of the WWE, working on establishing and enforcing the company’s wellness policy, which is designed to save wrestlers from the all too common cycle of pain killer abuse and drug addiction, a cycle Luger himself knows all too much about after the death of his girlfriend, and fellow former wrestler, Miss. Elizabeth from an accidental drug overdose in 2003. During his wrestling career, Luger held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, the WCW World Television Championship, the WCW and NWA United States Championships, the WCW and NWA Tag Team Championships, and various regional titles through-out Florida and the south-east. Should Be Inducted By: Ric Flair Eric Bischoff Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content If the Hall of Fame is really about the most important men and women in wrestling, not just about the WWE’s personal favourites, then Eric Bischoff is the one man who could prove it. From the commentator, to the President, The Bisch’ was the voice, the brains, and, occasionally the face of WCW during it’s most successful period. To list all of Bischoffs achievements and brainwaves would take an article in itself but, in brief, this is the man who started the Monday Night Wars, who founded the New World Order, who signed Hulk Hogan, who discovered Goldberg, who repackaged Sting, who revolutionised the concept of the wrestling pay-per-view schedule and who, in 1995, gave WCW it’s first profitable year in history. Currently working for TNA, Bischoff is a former WCW Hardcore Champion. Should Be Inducted By: Vince McMahon
