That WCW roster isn't good at all and the WWF roster at the time was better.
The only reason you are saying that WCW roster is great and better than the WWF's at the time is because you have a bunch of big names/legends and then some technical/aerial wrestlers listed. The big names/legends I'll give you but the technical/aerial guys like Malenko, Benoit, Eddie, Mysterio etc. Really? That's your reason for calling that half of the WCW roster great, just because they were technical wrestlers? I know technical wrestling is what's cool these days with smarky fans but please don't judge the WWF and WCW rosters back then with today's mentality of "if they're not a technical or aerial wrestler, they suck in the ring". Technical wrestling and Aerial wrestling doesn't define what a great wrestler is. There's a reason why Kevin Nash called guys like Benoit, Malenko, Mysterio, Eddie, the cruiserweights etc. "vanilla midgets" back then, it's because they were. All they had going for them was that they happened to be good technical/aerial wrestlers, nothing else. Besides that, they absolutely sucked and added nothing of value to the company. They weren't draws for the company and nobody could take them seriously even if WCW used them correctly when you have the likes of Goldberg, Nash, Hogan etc. on the roster. They were never going to be bigger names than them even if WCW utilized them. It baffles me how anybody can name somebody like Dean Malenko and say he is one of the reasons why a roster was great when he was a charisma vacuum. But "oh, he's a great technical wrestler, so that roster must be great, right?" The only "technical/aerial" guy from that list you named who was actually great is Chris Jericho. He was so much more than just a good technical wrestler, he was one of the best parts of WCW in 1998 and he made Dean Malenko look like a million bucks and one of the biggest babyfaces ever with his phenomenal heel work, which should've been an impossible task to do.
You seriously underrate the WWF roster at the time. Not only were guys like X-Pac, D-Lo Brown, Owen Hart, Jeff Jarrett, Val Venis, Goldust, Ken Shamrock, Al Snow, Edge, Christian, Gangrel, Taka Michinoku, Marc Mero, NAO etc. good wrestlers but they proved themselves to be entertaining characters too. Like everybody back then on the roster was actually over unlike that mid-card portion of the WCW roster you named. D-Lo Brown took a chest protector and turned it into an entertaining angle like Jericho did with a piece of paper this past year. X-Pac was the most popular guy in DX, not Triple H, X-Pac. Owen adapted to the Attitude Era and turned into a darker, more ruthless character and was part of that great DX-Nation feud. Jarrett got rid of the hokey Double J gimmick and became a solid mid-card act with the "Don't Piss Me Off" character. Val Venis and Godfather took controversial gimmicks like a pimp and a porn star and made them popular. Al Snow made being batshit insane and having a hardcore match with himself entertaining to watch. The Brood were mysterious and had such an epic entrance. Mero helped get Sable over tremendously by being such a great piece of shit heel to her. Taka showed he had a funny comedy side to him in Kaientai. And I could go on more about the rest on that WWF roster and how they were so good and better than most of the WCW roster besides just being good wrestlers.
These are the only names from that WCW roster I agree with...
Hogan, Savage, Flair, Piper, Hart, Sting, Nash, Hall, DDP, Goldberg, Luger, Giant, Jericho, Raven, Steiner.
Everybody else from that roster was meh and just there.
I don't even know why you put Arn Anderson there as he retired as a wrestler in 1997 and just took on the role of Enforcer for The Four Horsemen.
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