MAIL DAY! eBay - WCW vs. The World (PS1)

I saw some chatter about this on my Twitter feed and realized I had never played it. From what I know, it’s pretty much the same engine as the classic N64 games people loved (like Revenge, Wrestlemania 2000, No Mercy, etc) which is a win in my books. It also has a cool “unofficial” roster of some great international talent, but they’re named differently as they clearly didn’t have the rights. 

This site breaks down all the fictional wrestlers, and who their likeness is based on in real life.

World Championship Wrestling

• Chris Benoit
• Dean Malenko
• Eddy Guerrero
• The Giant
• Jeff Jarrett
• Hulk Hogan
• Lex Luger
• Ric Flair
• Rick Steiner
• Scott Steiner
• "Lord" Steven Regal
• Sting
• Ultimo Dragon

"Fictional" wrestlers

• 200 Wins (Yoji Anjo)
• Abispa (Jushin "Thunder" Liger)
• Akira (Akira Maeda)
• Bad Blood (The Great Muta)
• Bear Breath (Gary Albright)
• Billy Gaijin (Scott Norton)
• Black Belt (TAKA Michinoku)
• Black Ninja (The Great Sasuke)
• Blackheart (Tarzan Goto)
• Bolt Jamison (Kensuke Sasaki as Power Warrior)
• Chono (Masahiro Chono)
• The Count (Stan Hansen)
• Dakota (Hiroshi Hase)
• David Harley (Sabu)
• Dojo (Shinya Hashimoto)
• El Borador (Hiroyoshi Tenzan)
• Fujigami (Tatsumi Fujinami)
• Grizz Lee (Bruiser Brody)
• Habanero (Hayabusa)
• Jaguar (Tiger Mask)
• Kaiji (Yoshiaki Fujiwara)
• Kapuna (Toshiaki Kawada)
• Kim Chee (Koji Kitao)
• Konaka (Shiro Koshinaka)
• Le Masquerade (Mil Mascaras)
• Mad Oahu (Riki Chōshū)
• Major Tom (Terry Funk)
• Moma (Nobuhiko Takada)
• Mongol (Keiji Muto)
• Mongrel (Jumbo Tsuruta)
• Mukluk (Kensuke Sasaki)
• Overdose (Road Warrior Hawk)
• Puchteca (Atsushi Onita)
• Saladin (Genichiro Tenryu)
• Sam Song (Kenta Kobashi)
• Samoa (Giant Baba)
• Shanghai (Karl Gotch)
• Shaolin (Jinsei Shinzaki)
• Sherlock (Ken Shamrock)
• Siberia (Steve Williams)
• Steel Talon (Antonio Inoki)
• Thunder Dome (Bas Rutten)
• The Turk (Dynamite Kid's body with Vader's moves)
• The Unknown (Super Delfin)
• Uraki (Masakatsu Funaki)
• Wu Fang (Mitsuharu Misawa)
• Yamagiwa (Kazuo Yamazaki)

I'm excited to get into this one and check out what I missed out on years ago. I feel like at my current age I have A LOT more appreciated for the "fictional" characters than I would have back in 1997 when this was released.