Stacy Keibler’s wrestling career isn’t talked about enough for someone who was among the most popular female performers for her entire stint. WCW was the company that first discovered Stacy when she joined through a Nitro Girl search contest. A good moment would make WCW change course and put more women in the stories beyond being at the moment of the dance.
Keibler quickly overwhelmed the audience due to his star looks, charisma, and ability to connect. The run was short-lived as WCW quickly closed on his run and led to WWE profiting from the rising star. However, each of the following moments showed that Stacy had some notable moments in WCW.
8/8 Her Nitro Girls winning dance segment had big numbers
WCW used the Nitro Girls competition to put women on television in hopes of increasing viewership as WWE benefited from it. Stacy Keibler was the standout talent that ultimately won out, but there was another element to her.
The segment featuring Stacy’s dance routine drew 4.4 million viewers and had one of the best quarterly ratings of the night. Keibler easily won the fan vote over the other options to get the guaranteed contract as part of the Nitro Girls. WCW realized that she would be a positive addition to the company before she was officially signed on.
7/8 First associated with the Lenny & Lodi team
Lenny and Lodi’s controversial tag team became a problem for WCW when Turner’s executives were against their gay couple act bordering on homophobia. WCW booked them for the other wrestlers to swear at and hoped the fans would make fun of them.
Doubling on this by associating Lenny and Lodi with Stacy Keibler’s character of Miss Hancock focused on them being tied to standards and practices. Lenny and Lodi were pulled from television both for the controversial act and for making fun of network executives who wanted them to be tamed.
6/8 The fight with Kimberly Page ended abruptly
The character of Miss Hancock was naturally a face at first, as fans cheered Stacy Keibler by dancing during matches and distracting heels. Kimberly Page was getting a noticeable boost at the time after turning her husband Diamond Dallas Page into a new character.
Kimberly’s jealousy of Stacy led to some back and forth. DDP saved Keibler once when Kimberly tried to get Mike Awesome to attack her. WCW has never been able to pay what it wants out of this feud since Kimberly walked out on it after Scott Steiner made unprofessional comments about her in a shoot promo.
5/8 Love triangle with David Flair and Daffney
WCW channeled Stacy Keibler’s badass side when she broke up the relationship between David Flair and Daffney. David’s various impulses never worked out until he teamed up with Crowbar and a romantic angle with Daffney as his love interest.
Keibler worked his way into the love triangle and saw David turn around and betray Daffney. This ended up being a mistake for everyone involved as David had much better chemistry with Daffney and flopped again without her. Stacy was also better at angles without having to carry one less wrestler to get a bigger push than her.
4/8 Pregnancy story with the mystery father of the child
Vince Russo’s soap opera style writing got Stacy Keibler into a pregnancy storyline while dating David Flair. This was part of the reason David proposed to her, but the story evolved until the baby’s father was up in the air.
David, who is not the father, became the recurring theme in hopes that fans would care about the reveal. The story ended without working when Russo was fired. Both rumors were equally dire that it was either David’s father, Ric, or Russo himself, the person Stacy cheated on David with.
3/8 Romantic angle with Shawn Stasiak
WCW moved on to a new storyline for Stacy Keibler when she revealed that she was lying about her pregnancy the entire time. Stacy claimed that she was going to introduce her baby, but it was just a picture of Shawn Stasiak as her new love interest. David Flair was off television when Keibler initiated her new romance with Stasiak.
WWE wanted to raise some new stars and placed Stasiak in this storyline after his time with the Natural Born Thrillers faction ended. Unfortunately, the lack of chemistry and fans not accepting Stasiak doomed the storyline right at the end of her WCW run before she was bought out by WWE.
2/8 Participated in a mud wrestling match
Vince Russo wasn’t trying to hide his representation of the women’s division in WCW with absurd stipulations like the “Mud Rip off the Clothes” match. Stacy Keibler got into a dispute with Major Gunns that warranted a PPV match of this stipulation at The new blood uprising 2000.
WCW clearly just wanted fans to know that the two women would rip their clothes off in a mud pit. Major Gunns won the match representing the Misfits in Action stable as they were getting a push at the time.
1/8 He was in the only WCW wedding segment
WCW didn’t go as far as WWE with the sports entertainment vibe of soap opera segments. Weddings were a common thing in WWE and many came over the years. WCW had a rare wedding segment for David Flair and Stacy Keibler to cap off their romantic story.
Ric Flair even came back from an absence to attend the wedding and make it seem like something more important. The obvious scenario of things going wrong ended when Ric was arrested and Stacy stormed off. Both parties tried their wedding again, but Keibler stopped him by saying that David was not the father of her unborn baby.