Classic World Championship Wrestling Discussion Thread

[Kross Rhodes]

What's funny is all of that was on the fly and off the top of my head, all because I was determined to have Luger keep the title and the nWo to properly die at Starrcade 1998.

Which is a good game plan to start from. I do think the nWo has legs until 1999. The Luger one is a bit harder to keep to, but it can certainly be done.

The only issue is once you kill the nWo, you have to have a lot of good things to replace it. People often say the nWo lingered too long, but they actually drew the entire time they existed. The dip in ratings, buys and attendance actually starts when the nWo fizzled between April and May of 1999. The fans still liked the nWo, but WCW had nothing to replace it once it fizzled out. It also hurt that they didn’t payoff the angle. Hogan turned face against Flair for no reason and then got hurt the next month and that was basically it. Nash wore the shirt until June, but didn’t do anything with any other members and then quirky left it. Only Steiner still repped the nWo, but it was only him and Rick who unofficially joined and even they quietly dropped it in August.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Which is a good game plan to start from. I do think the nWo has legs until 1999. The Luger one is a bit harder to keep to, but it can certainly be done.

The only issue is once you kill the nWo, you have to have a lot of good things to replace it. People often say the nWo lingered too long, but they actually drew the entire time they existed. The dip in ratings, buys and attendance actually starts when the nWo fizzled between April and May of 1999. The fans still liked the nWo, but WCW had nothing to replace it once it fizzled out. It also hurt that they didn’t payoff the angle. Hogan turned face against Flair for no reason and then got hurt the next month and that was basically it. Nash wore the shirt until June, but didn’t do anything with any other members and then quirky left it. Only Steiner still repped the nWo, but it was only him and Rick who unofficially joined and even they quietly dropped it in August.

Yep, I think largely with the nWo done, it becomes Hall & Nash, Steiner & Bagwell, and Konnan forms the Filthy Animals a couple months early. Hogan fluctuates from tweener to babyface and even defends Bret Hart from The Four Horsemen, who are once again the de facto heel faction with the nWo dead.

DDP will eventually challenge Bret for the title at Starrcade 1999 and win, and the Jersey Triad will form itself in due time. WCW's pretty much set up to succeed with Goldberg being *the* face of the company for 1999, even when he loses.

 

[Sky]

Excited to see your fantasy bookings of WCW's peak

 

[Sky]

Hopefully in 2002-3 we get Goldberg vs. Bob Sapp because that would have been a hell of a feud. Two massive juggernaut guys just tossing each other about

 

[Deadd2009]

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[Chris]

 

[Deadd2009]

 

[Chris]

 

[Daddy Deville]

Just random thought I'm surprised they didn't do a ECW vs. NWO storyline in 97 or whatever like WCW having to go find help by bringing in ECW guys seems like that would of been pretty intresting story. I mean definitely feel like Heyman would of agreed to that.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

No way in hell was Heyman ever gonna agree to work with WCW lol.

He fucking hated the company because they fired his ass twice and he had a really personal spat with Ric Flair. Not to mention his entire public persona was built on shitting on Eric Bischoff.

Eric Bischoff was never gonna work with ECW either, why work with them when he could just buy up all their talent like he ended up doing?

 

[Chris]

But what they could have done is the angle where the company says they need outside help and debut newly signed talent from other companies in that way. That coulda been fun, your own WCW hired guns that weren't necessarily loyal to the company either

 

[Daddy Deville]

But what they could have done is the angle where the company says they need outside help and debut newly signed talent from other companies in that way. That coulda been fun, your own WCW hired guns that weren't necessarily loyal to the company either

Yea that's sort of my thought the idea of like Taz Sabu Shane Douglas Sandman maybe public rvd enemy getting together as hired help to stop the bleeding I think would been cool

 

[Hoss]

Yea that's sort of my thought the idea of like Taz Sabu Shane Douglas Sandman maybe public rvd enemy getting together as hired help to stop the bleeding I think would been cool

The aspect you're missing though is for that to really be feasible, it would've had to have been talent that WCW signed, not guys that ECW sent, like Chris was suggesting. Because like Grim said, ECW wasn't about to partner with WCW, and the nWo guys sure as hell weren't about to put over ECW talent, and most likely still wouldn't have, even if they were signed to WCW.

 

[Daddy Deville]

The aspect you're missing though is for that to really be feasible, it would've had to have been talent that WCW signed, not guys that ECW sent, like Chris was suggesting. Because like Grim said, ECW wasn't about to partner with WCW, and the nWo guys sure as hell weren't about to put over ECW talent, and most likely still wouldn't have, even if they were signed to WCW.

I get that was just random thought ran in my mind watching wcw was all

 

[Daddy Deville]

That's sad I wasn't really thinking about the landscape of the business or anything like that I was just watching Nitro I'll be like oh that would be a cool idea other than that that's about as far as I went with that thought