10 Most Useless NWO Members of All Time 10 David Flair In the late 90s, WCW were hesitant on making David Flair a major name. David Flair, who was the son of Inring Greatrick Flair, struggled to connect with the crowd as Flair was awkward in the ring and he always looked absolutely terrified in front of a live audience. In 1999, Flair's push would be furthered when he would become an associate of the NWO. At this point in 1999, the NWO's stable was basically a novelty act in the company. Yet nevertheless, it was disappointed to see how far the group had fallen. Once WCW realised that Flair as a member of the NWO wasn't going to work, Flair would be relegated to the hardcore division, where he surprisingly had the most successful run of his career as his work with Probar and Daphne was mildly entertaining. 9 Ron and Don Harris NWO 2000 was a last ditch attempt to recapture the magic of the initial NWO angle. The problem was that, including names such as Ron and Don Harris, wasn't the way to go about it. The two were joined the group as enforcers for Jeff Gerrit and the fans had zero interest in seeing the Harris brothers in action. Their matches and segments were offered met with utter silence and whilst it was understandable that WCW wanted enforcers for the function, Ron and Don Harris were not the men for the job. 8 Disco Inferno For most of his running WCW, Disco Inferno was presented as a comedic act. Therefore when WCW tried to book the dancing wrestler as an affiliate for the NWO Wolfpack, it wasn't received well. Inferno's inclusion was just too far in the opposite direction as to what fans wanted the stable on. And although Inferno has often claimed that this time of his career was his personal career highlight, his certainly wasn't a highlight for the WCW fans watching at home. 7 Nick Patrick Having a referee join the top faction in wrestling companies are always a risky move. Yeah WCW did this exact thing during the early stages of the NWO. Patrick played the role of a crooked referee and he always called matches in favour of the NWO members. Even though it was kind of a cool idea, Patrick was over the top and his antics were comedic in nature, which didn't really fit him with the theme of the stable at the time. Patrick would eventually be booted from the group after counting a pimple on NWO member Macho Man Randy Savage. His inclusion in the faction was a clear sign that WCW was going to let anyone in the group and it didn't matter if they were a referee or wrestler, and this would unfortunately be a trend that would continue until the very end of the notable faction. 6 Tyleen Buck A most wrestling fans, particularly new wrestling fans probably have zero idea who'd tyling in buckets. Buck would be labeled as an NWO girl as opposed to a nitro girl and would often come to the ring with members of the NWO. When Buck's stint in this role was over, she would transition into a back stage into her before becoming a member of the misfits in action. In a rare interview, Buck would be interviewed by Crimson Mask and this was what she had the same relation to being a member of the NWO faction. At first it was nice, it was fun to get into WCW but it wasn't the way I wanted to be used the whole time, just like a fluff girl. I wanted to be more involved to get into the ring, it was good to get started but I wanted more. I probably did that for 4 months and our storyline was played out. I sat at home and then they gave me a call and they asked me if I had a comeback boots camouflage this and that. I'm like, no what are you thinking? They say, bring the boots we have the rest of the outfit. That following week I went into the show, they said here are the guys you'll work with. Humorous, Lashleroo, Chavagorea, Junior, Van Hammer was with us at the time and they like, you're going to be MIA, misfits in action. 5. Horace Hogan When WCW hired the real life nephew of Hulk Hogan, it was only a matter of time before he became a prominent fixture on WCW television. In a dark story line, Hogan would claim that Horace was the son of his deceased brother and he was going to show his love for the family by awarding Horace a spot in the NWO. When Hogan declared this in a shocking turn of events, Hogan would brutalise his own nephew with a steel chair and even threw him off a stretcher. Despite being attacked by his uncle, Horace would become an official member of the NWO function at the Halloween Havvett Pay-Per-View in 98, as Horace assisted Hogan in his match with the warrior. From this point onwards, Horace would wrestle numerous matches for the function, yet the crowd lacked any emotional investment in Horace and his win-win work was an exactly the best. While super certainly appreciated that for one SWCW put some effort into the logic behind a new member of the function, the execution was horrible. The character motivations for Horace joining the stable were nonsensical and it was hardly a surprise they're during Horace's entire stint in the company that the crowd never once remotely cared about anything he did. Number 4 Dusty Roads Dusty Roads is a certified legend within the wrestling industry, yet his placement in the NWO function was a booking move that really didn't work. Whilst Roads working as a part of the iconic function was possible, at the point of his career not a single person had a desire to boo roads in any capacity. The actual heel turn of roads took place at the sold out pay-per-view in 1998. In a truly shocking moment, Roads were real dead he was wearing an NWO shirt, and after the initial shock of the moment, Fent instantly began to question the logic and wonder if Roads was the right fit for the group. According to Eric Bischoff, Scott Hall had a ton of respect in love for roads, and he was pushing for roads to be in the function and everyone else just went along with it. Number 3 Mr. Wall Street A mic rotender who was known as IRS in WWE will become a member of the NWO in late 1996. Rotender who is now using the generic name of Mr. Wall Street would be offered a membership bias from a tag team partner Ted DiBioci. While this made sense from a continuity perspective, Wall Street wasn't an amazing name like the other members of the group, and this likely explain why he was placed in the lower mid-card. Wall Street was brought into the faction with no meaningful direction, and this was during the peak of the faction, meaning that WCW had no reason to place random and unwarranted members of the roster into the group. Number 2 The Disciple While Broodys Beefcake had great success in WWE, the same can't be said very time in WCW. Every character that Beefcake portrayed in WCW completely flopped, and when Beefcake joined the NWO predominantly due to his relationship with Hulk Hogan, yet again watered down the group. Beefcake would be known as the Disciple and would be portrayed as Hulk Hogan's bodyguard. The new NWO member would wear Biker attire and just like every other character he had in WCW, it failed to get over. Former WCW president Eric Bischoff discussed why Beefcake flopped in the faction on his 83 weeks podcast, and Bischoff had a rather brutally honest take on the matter. But now you've got, at Leslie, portraying a character within the context of the NWO, in the more reality based presentation that we were assigning to that, and he didn't have it. And Leslie as a performer was a very, very weak performer. He was great at being the barber, but he didn't have the talent or the instinct to adapt and to embrace a character that would appeal to the 18 to 49 year old demo. It was classic square peg round hole, and it didn't work, and we were forced. And number 1, Stevie Ray. A Stevie Ray's involvement in the NWO faction could have worked if the fans wanted to see Ray in a prominent role on TV. But that simply wasn't the case. When Harlem Heat disbanded, Bukati had a genuine organic connection with the fans, and he rose to new heights as a baby face, whilst Ray just wasn't that interesting or engaging as a single star. Ray discussed in an interview with a grew room show exactly what went wrong with the NWO, and Ray claimed that the issue was that WCW kept adding non believable acts like Marcus Bagwell. One thing about it, they didn't keep it as serious as they should have kept it. We shouldn't have had season the group. People like Marcus Bagwell, who scared of him? That's when you start to order down things. In relation to why WCW kept adding more and more non-sensical members to the group, the original plan according to names such as Eric Fishoff were for WCW to introduce a brand split. This obviously never materialised, and it would have been hard to execute effectively if one show was dominated by heel members of the NWO faction. But they have at focus 10 of the most useless NWO members of all time. Be sure to leave your comments down below, and I'll see you next time with some more wrestling content!