8. Sting
In the heyday of the WCW, Sting took on damn near every wrestling great there was. But it wasn’t until he adopted his face paint, inspired by the main character from the film The Crow and his assault on the members of the notorious nWo stable. Stalking wrestlers from the rafters, rappelling into the ring, wearing a trench coat and wielding a black bat, the revamped ghostly Sting was one of the most intimidating and influential wrestlers during the nWo era. Not one to fall in line, in almost 30 years Sting is one of few wrestlers to never have signed with the WWF/E and only recently retired at the age of 55.