5 Current WWE Superstars who were part of WCW

The WWE welcomed these Superstars from their rival company

#4 Goldust

Goldust is one of the longest-tenured wrestlers on the current WWE roster. Goldust made his debut within the WWF in 1995, ultimately feuding with the likes of The Ultimate Warrior, The Undertaker and Roddy Piper within a year of his debut.

But this wasn't Dustin Rhodes' WWF debut, as he had briefly been on the WWF roster in the early 1990s, wrestling in the 1991 Royal Rumble. Rhodes has been in and out of WWE plenty of times, just as he was WCW.

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His first WCW run started in 1988 as Dustin Rhodes. In 1991 he returned to WCW and ultimately won became a WCW World Tag Team Champion alongside Ricky Steamboat. A WCW United States Heavyweight Championship run would follow in 1993.

After leaving WWE -- as Goldust -- in 1999, Rhodes was Seven in WCW before being rebranded as "The American Nightmare" Dustin Rhodes.

Cumulatively, Goldust/Rhodes had two U.S. Heavyweight titles runs, two World Tag Team title runs, and one Six-Man Tag Team title run during his WCW time logged.

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