List of WCW Hardcore Champions

During late 1999, WCW promoted various hardcore matches, bouts where there were no disqualifications or countouts, that mainly involved Norman Smiley and Brian Knobbs.

[3] Title reigns were determined by professional wrestling hardcore match types with wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripts feuds, plots and storylines or were awarded the title due to scripted circumstances.

Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or fan favorites as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a hardcore wrestling type match or series of matches for the championship.

[4] The inaugural champion was Norman Smiley, who defeated Brian Knobbs at Mayhem.

Before the promotion's purchase, the title was vacant, though, Meng was the final wrestler to hold the championship.