Arn Anderson
The Enforcer, wrestling's greatest right-hand man. Founding member of the Four Horsemen.
WCW Trivia
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WCW Wrestlers
Barry Windham
Beat the painted mist-sprayer at SuperBrawl III in 1993 to win the vacant NWA World title. Won the vacant NWA World title at SuperBrawl III in 1993.
Billy Kidman
Now a WWE producer who shares his surname with an Oscar-winning actress. Three-time WCW Cruiserweight Champion.
Booker T
Can you dig it, sucka?. Five-time WCW Champion, winning the last on the final episode of Nitro.
Buff Bagwell
His lone WWF televised match, against Booker T on Raw in 2001, flopped so badly it helped kill the invasion angle. Five-time WCW World Tag Team Champion with four different partners.
Dean Malenko
Left for the WWF in 2000 alongside Guerrero, Saturn and Benoit as the Radicalz. Four-time WCW Cruiserweight Champion.
Diamond Dallas Page
The master of positive living, married to Kimberly, now famous for his yoga program. Three WCW World title reigns after starting his career as a manager.
Dusty Rhodes
The American Dream, father of Goldust and Cody. Cut the legendary 'Hard Times' promo in 1985.
Goldberg
Beat Hollywood Hogan for the WCW title on a 1998 Nitro, and returned years later to win two WWE Universal titles. Billed 173-0 undefeated streak in WCW.
Harley Race
Later crowned a King in the WWF and managed the mastodon Vader in WCW. Eight NWA World Heavyweight Championship reigns.
Juventud Guerrera
Hit the 450 splash to become a two-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion in 2005. Lost his mask to Chris Jericho at SuperBrawl VIII in 1998.
Kevin Nash
Big Sexy, five-time WCW champion, master of the Jackknife Powerbomb. Co-founded the nWo with the 1996 Outsiders invasion.
Konnan
Later managed LAX in TNA and became the creative force behind AAA. First-ever CMLL World Heavyweight Champion in 1991.
Lex Luger
The Total Package, who racked Hollywood Hogan for the WCW title in 1997. Made Hollywood Hogan submit to the Torture Rack to win the WCW title on Nitro in 1997.
Madusa
Became the first woman to win the WCW Cruiserweight title at Starrcade 1999, then a monster truck champion. Dropped the WWF Women's Championship into a trash can live on Nitro in 1995.
Magnum TA
Groomed to be the NWA's next world champion until an October 1986 Porsche crash ended everything at 27. I Quit steel cage victory over Tully Blanchard at Starrcade 1985.
Nikita Koloff
The Russian Nightmare, who won the US title in a best-of-seven series and main-evented Starrcade 1986. Beat Magnum TA in a best-of-seven series for the US title in 1986.
Psicosis
Later rode lawnmowers to WWE rings with Super Crazy and Juventud as the Mexicools. His ECW and WCW series with Rey Mysterio Jr. introduced lucha libre to US fans.
Ric Flair
The limousine-ridin', jet-flyin' kiss-stealin' legend of the Figure Four and the 'Woooo!'. 16 recognized world championship reigns across NWA, WCW and WWF.
Rick Rude
Three-time WCW International World Champion who showed up on Nitro and Raw the same night in 1997. Three-time WCW International World Heavyweight Champion.
Rick Steiner
Betrayed by his brother at SuperBrawl VIII in 1998, he got his revenge at Halloween Havoc. Won tag team gold in WCW, the WWF and New Japan with his brother.
Ricky Steamboat
The Dragon, who never once wrestled as a villain. Beat Ric Flair for the NWA World title at Chi-Town Rumble 1989.
Ron Simmons
Later led the Nation of Domination and formed the APA in WWE. Damn!. Pinned Vader on August 2, 1992 to become the first widely recognized Black world heavyweight champion.
Scott Hall
The Bad Guy who took his famous survey: 'One more for the good guys!'. Hopped the rail on Nitro in May 1996 to spark the nWo angle.
Scott Steiner
Won the WCW title from Booker T in 2000 and main-evented the final Starrcade with his over-the-shoulder camel clutch. Turned on his brother at SuperBrawl VIII in 1998 to join the nWo.
Sting
Master of the Scorpion Deathlock who finally arrived in WWE in 2014 and retired in AEW in 2024. Watched from the rafters for over a year before beating Hollywood Hogan at Starrcade 1997.
The Great Muta
Keiji Mutoh's painted alter ego, an NWA, IWGP and Triple Crown world champion. Won the NWA World title from Masahiro Chono in 1993.
Tully Blanchard
Left for the WWF with his tag partner as the Brain Busters, and decades later managed FTR. I Quit steel cage match against Magnum TA at Starrcade 1985.
Ultimo Dragon
Survived a botched elbow surgery and returned to face Rey Mysterio at WrestleMania XX under his famous mask. Held ten championship belts simultaneously in 1996, including the unified J-Crown.
Vader
Told everyone what time it was, and lost his WCW career to Ric Flair in a Starrcade 1993 strap match. Beat Sting for his first WCW World title at the 1992 Great American Bash.
WCW Trivia Questions
Who shocked the wrestling world by turning heel and revealing himself as the third man of the nWo at Bash at the Beach 1996?
Answer: Hulk Hogan
On July 7, 1996 at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Hulk Hogan dropped three leg drops on Randy Savage and declared himself, Hall, and Nash the New World Order.
What did the letters nWo stand for?
Answer: New World Order
Hogan named the faction the 'new world order of wrestling' in his post-match interview with Mean Gene Okerlund at Bash at the Beach 1996.
Which WCW wrestler's undefeated streak was famously billed at 173-0?
Answer: Goldberg
Goldberg's winning streak was billed at 173 straight victories before his first loss at Starrcade 1998.
Who finally ended Goldberg's undefeated streak at Starrcade 1998?
Answer: Kevin Nash
Kevin Nash pinned Goldberg for the WCW World title on December 27, 1998 after Scott Hall, disguised as security, zapped Goldberg with a stun gun.
What was the name of WCW's flagship Monday night television show?
Answer: Nitro
WCW Monday Nitro debuted on TNT on September 4, 1995 and went head to head with the WWF's Monday Night Raw.
Who purchased WCW in March 2001, ending the Monday Night Wars?
Answer: Vince McMahon
Vince McMahon's WWF bought WCW in a deal announced March 23, 2001, though on TV the purchase was credited to Shane McMahon as a storyline twist.
Which Hollywood actor infamously won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 2000?
Answer: David Arquette
David Arquette, promoting the movie Ready to Rumble, won the WCW title on the April 26, 2000 broadcast of Thunder by pinning Eric Bischoff in a tag match.
Which two former WWF stars invaded WCW in 1996 as The Outsiders?
Answer: Scott Hall and Kevin Nash
Scott Hall walked out of the crowd on the May 27, 1996 Nitro, and Kevin Nash joined him weeks later to form The Outsiders.
What was WCW's biggest annual pay-per-view, traditionally held every December?
Answer: Starrcade
Starrcade began in 1983 under Jim Crockett Promotions and remained the company's flagship year-end event through 2000.
Sting's brooding black-and-white 1996 makeover was inspired by which movie?
Answer: The Crow
Sting swapped his colorful surfer paint for monochrome face paint modeled on the 1994 film The Crow and watched WCW silently from the rafters.
Where was the first episode of WCW Monday Nitro broadcast from on September 4, 1995?
Answer: Mall of America
The debut Nitro aired live from the Mall of America in Minnesota and featured Lex Luger's surprise return from the WWF.
For how many consecutive weeks did Nitro beat Raw in the Monday night ratings?
Answer: 83
Beginning in mid-1996, Nitro topped Raw in the ratings for 83 straight weeks at the height of the Monday Night Wars.
In the infamous Fingerpoke of Doom, Hollywood Hogan poked which champion in the chest to win the WCW title?
Answer: Kevin Nash
On the January 4, 1999 Nitro at the Georgia Dome, Kevin Nash flopped down from a single finger poke and let Hogan pin him for the title.
On the night of the Fingerpoke of Doom, announcer Tony Schiavone infamously spoiled whose WWF title win, sending viewers flocking to Raw?
Answer: Mick Foley
Schiavone mocked that Mick Foley winning the WWF title would 'put some butts in the seats,' and hundreds of thousands of viewers immediately switched to Raw to watch it.
Who did Sting defeat for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Starrcade 1997?
Answer: Hollywood Hogan
Sting beat Hollywood Hogan on December 28, 1997 at the MCI Center, ending a title chase built up for more than a year.
Goldberg won his first WCW World Heavyweight Championship on the July 6, 1998 Nitro by beating whom?
Answer: Hollywood Hogan
Goldberg jackhammered Hollywood Hogan for the title in front of more than 40,000 fans at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
At Halloween Havoc 1997, Rey Mysterio Jr. risked his mask against whose WCW Cruiserweight Championship?
Answer: Eddie Guerrero
Rey Mysterio Jr. beat Eddie Guerrero with a hurricanrana counter on October 26, 1997 in a title-versus-mask match widely called one of the greatest in WCW history.
How many WCW World Heavyweight Championship reigns did Booker T have in total?
Answer: Five
Booker T won the WCW title four times in WCW and a fifth time under the WWF banner in July 2001, inspiring his famous five-time catchphrase.
How many times did Harlem Heat win the WCW World Tag Team Championship, a company record?
Answer: 10
Brothers Booker T and Stevie Ray won the WCW World Tag Team titles a record ten times between 1994 and 1999.
Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, and Dean Malenko jumped to the WWF in January 2000 alongside which fourth wrestler?
Answer: Perry Saturn
The four appeared in the Raw crowd on January 31, 2000 and were christened The Radicalz after walking out of WCW together.
Who won the final match on the last episode of WCW Monday Nitro?
Answer: Sting
Sting beat longtime rival Ric Flair with the Scorpion Deathlock on March 26, 2001, and the two embraced in the ring afterward.
The final episode of WCW Monday Nitro on March 26, 2001 aired from which location?
Answer: Panama City Beach, Florida
The last Nitro was broadcast from Panama City Beach, Florida and ended with a simulcast in which the McMahons revealed the WWF's purchase of WCW.
Which wrestler and booker created the two-ring, double-cage WarGames match?
Answer: Dusty Rhodes
Dusty Rhodes, inspired by Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, debuted WarGames at the Great American Bash on July 4, 1987 at The Omni in Atlanta.
Vader won his first WCW World Heavyweight Championship at the Great American Bash 1992 by defeating whom?
Answer: Sting
Big Van Vader, managed by Harley Race, beat Sting for the title on July 12, 1992 in Albany, Georgia.
What nickname did Scott Steiner adopt during his late-1990s WCW singles run?
Answer: Big Poppa Pump
Scott Steiner reinvented himself as Big Poppa Pump, complete with chainmail headgear and his Steiner Recliner submission hold.
Ron Simmons made history as the first Black WCW World Heavyweight Champion by beating which wrestler in August 1992?
Answer: Vader
Simmons pinned Vader with a powerslam on August 2, 1992 in Baltimore after winning a raffle to become the substitute challenger.
Who was the special guest referee when Ric Flair beat Harley Race in the steel cage main event of the first Starrcade in 1983?
Answer: Gene Kiniski
Former NWA champion Gene Kiniski officiated as Flair won the NWA World title from Race on November 24, 1983 in Greensboro.
Chris Benoit won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at which January 2000 pay-per-view, only to leave for the WWF days later?
Answer: Souled Out
Benoit beat Sid Vicious for the title at Souled Out on January 16, 2000, then departed for the WWF with the rest of the future Radicalz.
Ultimo Dragon entered his Starrcade 1996 match with Dean Malenko holding what unified collection of eight junior heavyweight titles?
Answer: The J-Crown
Ultimo Dragon held the J-Crown, a unification of eight international junior titles, and won Malenko's WCW Cruiserweight Championship at Starrcade 1996.
The first Starrcade in 1983 was traditionally staged on which holiday?
Answer: Thanksgiving
Jim Crockett Promotions held the inaugural Starrcade on Thanksgiving night, November 24, 1983, at the Greensboro Coliseum.
Which referee delivered the disputed 'fast count' in the Hogan versus Sting main event of Starrcade 1997?
Answer: Nick Patrick
Nick Patrick was supposed to count fast for Hogan's pin on Sting, but counted at normal speed, muddying one of WCW's biggest planned payoffs.
Scott Steiner won his only WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Mayhem 2000 by beating whom?
Answer: Booker T
Steiner forced Booker T to submit to the Steiner Recliner in a straitjacket steel cage match on November 26, 2000.
The first Great American Bash in 1985 was held in which city?
Answer: Charlotte
Dusty Rhodes created the Great American Bash, first held July 6, 1985 at American Legion Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Which wrestler, newly arrived from the WWF, ordered the Hogan versus Sting match restarted at Starrcade 1997?
Answer: Bret Hart
Bret Hart, who had just jumped to WCW after the Montreal Screwjob, declared the pinfall unfair and refereed the restart that Sting won.
Along with Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, and Tully Blanchard, who completed the original Four Horsemen lineup?
Answer: Ole Anderson
The original 1986 Four Horsemen were Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard, managed by J.J. Dillon.
