12 Wrestlers Who Only Had 1 WCW Match
These are 10 wrestlers who only had one match in WCW
2. Joe Malenko
Prior to finding domestic success with WCW in the mid-to-late 90s, Dean Malenko earned his reputation as one of the smoothest in-ring technicians in the game while bending bones overseas in Japan, where he was a star of New Japan’s cutting-edge junior heavyweight division.
Before that, however, he was known as the younger brother and tag team partner of Joe Malenko. The Malenko Brothers had been staples of New Japan’s rivals All Japan – where they had some cracking matches with, amongst others, the British Bulldogs – when they were booked for a one-off by WCW.
Squaring off against Nikita Koloff and Ricky Steamboat in the first round of a tournament to crown new tag team champions, Dean and Joe helped kick off the 19th Clash of the Champions special. It was obvious who was doing the job here, but at least the Malenkos – who were representing ‘Europe’, oddly enough – got to show off their mat skills in a perfectly decent 10-minute encounter. And while Joe didn’t wrestle another match for WCW, he was drafted in for an angle with Chris Jericho during Jericho’s 1998 feud with The Man of 1,000 holds.
