Top 5 Workers To Have Never Survived WCW

[Guest Heel In Peril]

Scott Norton!

Vampiro

Kaz Hayashi

Psycosis (appeared once in week 2 of TNA)

La Parka

 

What a shame, huh? I wanna say "especially for Norton", but all these guys were awesome. Can you think of any others?

[Guest razazteca]

I thought Vampiro & Psicosis worked some MLW shows, besides they do not need to be in USA indies when they are treated like gods in Mexico.

 

Scott Norton sucks, I could care less for him and Ice Train/ Smooth~

[Guest Coffey]

I love Scott Norton. The man is a beast. I haven't see too many people his size with his intensity. He's great in Japan. I mark for his Shoulder Breaker & his Powerbomb.

 

I like Vampiro, however he should have never cut off his hair.

[Guest Heel In Peril]

Ice Train really did suck. He is the standard of horrible bigman wrestlers as far as my old friend and I are concerned. Are you so sure about Scott Norton, though? He didn't get too much elevation in WCW over his years there. But he proved to have an impressive moveset, outstanding strength and ring presence, not bad mic work for an aggresive big man, and capable of working with hosses as well as lightweights, and I don't recall him going on any Demott rampages on little guys or anything but actually decent matches. He reminds me of Ron Simmons in a lot of those ways. In my opinion, he had plenty of potential to build on and create a top competitor there. Or at least, valuable to a Smackdown midcard or TNA heavyweight division. But yeah, Ice Train blew such ass. I didn't know about Vampiro and Psycosis in MLW. I knew about them in Mexico but I just limited the thread to US since most wrestlers who've worked for WCW almost always come from, or end up in, another fed sooner or later.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

what about Yuji Nagata?????

[Guest Jimmy Beard]

Hey what about Bob Cooke the greatest wrestler of all time!!

not forgetting Joe Anderson, and Brian Walsh

[Mecha Mummy 0]

La Parka regularly works MLW, as does Vampiro.

[The Dames 0]

Well, I'm sure he meant TNA & WWE and possibly Ring of Honor. Other than a handful of smarks and guys in Florida, not too many people have ever heard of MLW.

 

Dames

[Mecha Mummy 0]

*Shrugs* Maybe. Does XPW count? Because I believe Psychosis has worked shows for them, too.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Norton blows goats. He did get the IWGP title though, while not being signed with another American company, he did damn good for himself. Although the guy's a lump in the ring.

[Guest alkeiper]

Scott Norton and Yugi Nagata are hugely successful in Japan. I don't think they need US promotions at this point. Especially Nagata.

[Guest crandamaniac]

Kaz Hayashi

Didn't he get signed by the WWE, but didn't like working in the developments and went back to Japan?

[Guest Galactic Gigolo]

You're right about Hayashi. Good decision, as he probably would've just been dumped when they did the house cleaning of SKipper, Romeo, etc.

 

I loved Norton when he just powerbombed cruiserweights every week. When he wrestles matches that go beyond four minutes, : : clicks to anything else : :

[Guest Special K]

I always liked Norton, especially when he lost the mullet. He isn't the best wrestler by any means, but watch a couple of his matches. Besides Shouldebreaking, chokeslamming and powerbombing people hard, he got great movement on moves like shouldeblocks and powerslams. He didn't seem to obviously blow up, and he sold.

 

He may have had an odd look, but he's far and away better than the hosses in the WWE.

[Guest HollywoodSpikeJenkins]

I liked Norton, except with his one match with Benoit. He no sold the Crossface, then went on to beat Benoit with a shoulder breaker.....

[Guest Heel In Peril]

what about Yuji Nagata?????

I had also thought of Yugi Nagata as well as Blitzkrieg when listing my five, but feel that the five I chose were more of a shame because they were the most over and/or had the most longterm potential. Not to mention, Nagata and Blitzkrieg were there for FAR shorter a time than the others.

[Guest tank_abbott]

Noton no sold the Giant's Chokeslam in 96, on a Feburary Nitro, I think....

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Anybody who Kaz Hayashi is working for in Japan, if anyone?

[Guest Dace59]

Blitzkrieg also go an injury and quick, now sits at home programming and picking up his comp checks.

[Zorin Industries 0]

Your'e all forgetting the man, the myth, the legend that is Alex Wright.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

ahhhh yea I remember Das Wunderkin.......

[Guest Heel In Peril]

Your'e all forgetting the man, the myth, the legend that is Alex Wright.

Sorry.

[Guest Doyo]

Kaz Hayashi is in All Japan and teams with Jimmy Yang sometimes.

 

Yuji Nagata set the record for most IWGP title defenses, so I would

say he is doing alright haha. Here is a pic of him after setting the record:

[Guest Renegade]

I miss Psychosis, he had some truly great ECW and WCW matches.

[Guest Memphis]

I really cannot see Yuji Nagata ever leaving Japanese shores again. He has it too good over there to just leave for United States crowds that will not appreciate or respect him the way they should.

[Guest Tod deKindes]

Jimmy Beard, you sir have earned my respect for knowing who Brian Walsh is.

[Guest Basswitch]

I would say El Dandy... that fat man could do some impressive stuff.

[Guest Heel In Peril]

So far, I'm the only one who listed a top five. Does everyone agree or what? Would you replace one of mine or ALL of them?

[Guest Blue Bacchus]

C'mon, you're forgetting several key WCW players like Van Hammer and Jerry "Lightfoot" Flynn.

[Guest Army Eye]

What happened to Kid Romeo??