5 things that killed WCW

#1 Vince Russo

Russo was a walking, talking disaster at WCW

Vince Russo is one of the most opinionated, vocal, animated personalities in wrestling history. One thing about Russo that has always stood out is that Russo is always right, and he will surely remind you of that very fact.

To be fair, Vince Russo was one of the key components to the success of The Attitude Era. However, once he moved to WCW, he brought many outlandish ideas and hopes for reinventing the wheel along with him. Unfortunately for Russo, the very things that made the Attitude Era a huge success, would not be something that would work with the transitioning era that WCW was going through.

Russo is notoriously associated with some of the most ridiculous storylines and decisions WCW fans would ever witness. It was Russo who thought of the "brilliant" idea of turning Goldberg heel. Russo also brought in the Oklahoma gimmick, which was a distasteful shot at Jim Ross.

There was that time that he turned Dustin Rhodes into “Se7en.” Vince also decided one day that he would throw the coveted WCW World Championship on himself, but that move pales in comparison to the time he made David Arquette the champion. Many fans, including me, feel that Arquette winning the title was the single worst thing to happen to WCW.