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Lists the various wrestlers active during WCW's final years in business, from 1999 through 2001. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in WCW.
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3 Count -
Evan Karagias (Evan Kavagias) (1997-2001)
Shane Helms (Gregory Shane Helms), 1999-2001)
Shannon Moore, (1999-2001)
- Signature Move:
- (Triple-Team): Aided wheelbarrow facebuster
- (Helms and Moore): Count Down (Moore hits a Samoan Drop combined with Helms doing a Nightmare on Helms Street [neckbreaker])
- Spell My Name With An S: Either 3 Count or Three Count.
- Wrestling Doesn't Pay: A wrestling Boy Band.
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Tank Abbott (David Lee Abbott, 1999-2001)
- Ax-Crazy: After defeating Big Al in their Skins Match (Leather jacket on a pole) at WCW SuperBrawl X, Tank went back to the jacket and pulled out a switchblade and held it to Al's throat and said, "I could fucking kill you right now!" Amazingly, he was not fired for this.
- One-Hit Kill: In Real Life, it became his finishing move called 'The Phantom Right'.
Air Raid -
Air Paris (Frank Parris, 2001)
AJ Styles (Alan Neal Jones, 2001)
Mike Awesome (Michael Lee Alfonso, 2000-2001)
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Chris Candido (Christopher Raulvtvtuy Candito, 2000-2001)
Crowbar (Christopher "Chris" Ford) 1999-2001
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The Demon (Dale Torborg) 1998-2001
- Captain Ersatz: For Gene Simmons's "Demon" Persona. The gimmick, the product of a business arrangement between WCW and KISS, was originally intended for Brian Adams, but Bischoff's firing in late summer 1999 cancelled those plans.
- Jobber: Sting squashed him in 53 seconds at New Blood Rising.
- Wrestling Doesn't Pay: Under his own name as part of the NASCAR-themed Tag Team the Pit Crew in 1998 with Chad Fortune.
Shane Douglas (Troy Shane Martin, 1989-1990, 1992-1993, 1999-2001)
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"Angry" Alan Funk/Kwee Wee (Alan Funk, 1999-2001)
- Agent Peacock
- Camp Straight
- Finishing Move: The Fruit Loop (face-first powerbomb)
- Gorgeous George
- Shout-Out: He and a pre-Natural Born Thrillers Mike Sanders, as a tip of the hat to "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson, called themselves the "Re-Enforcers", or the "Double A Team," since Sanders' Red Baron was "Above Average."
- Unstoppable Rage
- Wrestling Doesn't Pay: A wrestling stylist as Kwee Wee
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Jung Dragons
Kaz Hayashi (林 和広, Hayashi Kazuhiro, 1997-2001)
Yang (James Carson Yun, 2000-2001)
Jamie-San / Jamie Noble (James Howard Gibson, 2000-2001)
- Arch-Enemy: 3 Count.
- Cool Mask: Jamie-San.
- Gimmick Matches: Ladder matches
- Spell My Name With An S: Sometimes the group's name as the Young Dragons
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Kid Romeo (Sam Loman, 1999, 2001)
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: His gimmick was intended as a heel version of the singer Ricky Martin
- Power Stable: The last person to join Lance Storm's Team Canada.
Kronik -
Brian Adams (Brian Keith Adams 1998-2001),
Bryan Clarke (Bryan Emmeth Clarke 1990, 1997-2001)
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: The name of the group.
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Lash LeRoux/Corporal Cajun (Johnathan Mark LeRoux, 1998-2001)
- Alliterative Name
- Fiery Redhead
- Hot-Blooded Sideburns
- The Lancer: For Gen. Rection in Misfits in Action
- Power Stable: The Misfits in Action as Corporal Cajun.
- Red Baron: "The Ragin' Cajun"
- Remember the New Guy?: He started out as a heel jobber-to-the-stars who mocked his opponents (e.g. wearing black makeup when wrestling Vampiro). Then suddenly he was Disco Inferno's good buddy and tag partner in his feud against Tony Marinara and the Mamalukes.
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The Mamalukes
Big Vito (Vito LoGrasso 1999-2001)
Johnny the Bull (John Hugger 1999-2001)
L-R: Johnny, Vito
- American Accents: Noo Yawk
- Bald of Evil: Vito as a heel
- Brooklyn Rage
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Johnny the Bull turned on Big Vito to join the Natural Born Thrillers. Only three months later, Johnny is back being Vito's tag team partner.
- Insistent Terminology: Always insisted on being called the Paisans, not the Mamalukes.
- Lightning Bruiser: Johnny the Bull.
- The Mafia
- Shout-Out: Johnny the Bull's name appears to be a reference to Salvatore Gravano
, a.k.a. "Sammy the Bull", the underboss of the Gambino crime family, best known for his role in prosecuting John Gotti, the crime family's boss, by agreeing to testify as a government witness against him and other mobsters in a plea deal.
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The Natural Born Thrillers
Mike Sanders (Michael Edwin Neil Sanders 1998-2001)
Chuck Palumbo (Charles "Chuck" Palumbo 1998-2001)
Shawn Stasiak (Dr. Shawn Emile Stipich, 2000-2001)
Sean O'Haire (Sean Christopher Haire, 2000-2001)
Mark Jindrak (Mark Robert Jindrak, 2000-2001)
Reno (Richard "Rick" Cornell 1999-2001)
Johnny the Bull (John Hugger 1999-2001)
L-R, Back Row: Palumbo, Jindrak, O'Haire, Stasiak. L-R, Front Row: Johnny, Sanders, Reno
- Bald of Evil: Johnny, Reno
- Butt-Monkey: Sanders on occasion. The night he debuted he got hit in the head with a weapon at the conclusion of his match, hit in the head with another weapon as soon as he got backstage, hit in the head by two different people with two different weapons, and finally got Kanyon Kutter'd.
- Genius Bruiser: Stasiak in Real Life
- Glass Cannon: Sanders.
- Lightning Bruiser: Everyone but Reno and Sanders.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Reno
- Punny Name: Based off Natural Born Killers.
- Take That!: Based off of how O'Haire was from South Carolina, they gave him the North Carolina-born Jeff Hardy's Swanton Bomb as a Finishing Move, calling it the Seanton Bomb
- Ur-Example: Of what The Nexus would be ten years later in WWE.
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Elix Skipper (1999-2001)
Lance Storm (Lance Evers, 2000-2001)
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Vampiro (Ian Richard Hodgkinson, 1998-2000)
- Arch-Enemy: In his WCW run he was kayfabe enemies with Sting. In real life, he's had issues with Konnan, Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, Juventud Guerrera and Sean Waltman, to name a few.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
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Germans Love David Hasselhoff: He made his name in Mexico, where being a North American rockstar character made him very popular with the ladies. In Canada and the US, he's mostly known for his brief time in WCW and TNA (in neither place was he a big star) as well as his association with Insane Clown Posse. As a result of his success in Mexico, he has lived there for many years and learned fluent Spanish. - Goth
- Identical Stranger: in his early career as a Long-Haired Pretty Boy he resembled Michale Graves. Ironically, by the time the latter became famous as a Misfit, Vampiro had dropped the look, and gone for a different one that DID feature Misfits corpse paint.
- In-Series Nickname: Other wrestlers often call him Vamps.
- Lightning Bruiser
- Limited Move Arsenal: He primarily uses striking attacks such as chops and kicks, with only occasional grapple moves such as his piledriver finisher. However, this worked ok with WCW's tendency towards short matches.
- Newer Than They Think: He didn't wear his distinctive corpse paint until WCW, when he became friends with The Misfits and they designed it for him.
- Our Vampires Are Different: His finishing moves are named Vampiro's Bite and the Nail in the Coffin.
- Power Stable:
- The Dead Pool, with Raven and ICP
- The New Blood
- The Dark Carnival, with ICP, the Demon and the Great Muta
- Satellite Character: Has become most well-known for being associated with Sting in the company's final years. Even now, a least half of all questions directed towards Vampiro in his shoot interviews have to do with his feud against Sting.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: His accent is a distinctive combination of Canadian English with Mexican inflections, primarily due to the fact he used Spanish so much whilst working in Mexico.
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The Wall / Sgt. AWOL (Jerry Tuite, 1999-2001)
- Badass in a Nice Suit: With Berlyn.
- The Big Guy: Of the Misfits in Action.
- The Brute: While serving Berlyn (Alex Wright) and as a member of the New Blood.
- Finishing Move: Chokeslam
- Foreign Wrestling Heel: When he was with Berlyn
- Power Stable: The New Blood and the Misfits in Action.
