When could WCW have been saved?

All AOL issues aside, the finger poke definitely ruined a whole hell of a lot and is a great example of terrible booking and a stupid obsession with heel turns. To try and repeat Bash at the Beach and that sort of reaction clearly only sent everyone away.

You could've built the WolfPac even further and Black and White even further, sent them away, brought them back, all kinds of things without changing them so drastically. The idea that everyone would've reacted well to an nWo supergroup is narcissistic and stupid. This, coupled with that being the focus instead of an even distribution sent it into the madness it fell into.

it's ironic that the one PPV concept (created by Dusty Rhodes) that really put Crockett's promotion on the map as being an innovative company in '83, would be the very same PPV that spelt the demise of the organization if we agree that Starccade '97 was a turn for the worst.

The nWo was over-booked and Vince Russo should be banned from this business. I don't know why he's still employed and doing the same crap to TNA 10 years later.

The reason I stopped watching WCW was because of the NWO, sometime in 99. I don't remember which PPV just made me say ' this", but for some reason, Spring Stampede or Road Wild come to mind.

It was when the NWO was getting really annoying to me. I was fine with them all through 98. In 99 though, all the WCW guys had won all the titles back from the NWO, it was a big deal. I remember DDP getting quite the push around this time.

But the VERY next PPV after WCW won all their titles, NWO won every single one of them back the next month. It annoyed the crapout of me. It's at this point that I started watching WWE, the first episode I started watching that again, 'Chainsaw Charlie' came out of a box and teamed up with Cactus Jack, I think going against the new age outlaws.

And every single time I turned on WCW from that point, I was just disappointed with everything that was on the show.

From Goldberg getting electrocuted and losing his first match (very stupid) to Glacier losing his entrance music, giving it to someone who didn't matter at all. Hogan starting a feud with Kidman. Rey Mysterio losing his mask, the Filthy animals, 3 count were around sometime at this point. Juvi (one of my favorite people to watch) started acting like 'The Rock', calling himself 'The Juice'. Dr Death and 'J.R' ( I wasn't watching WCW at this point, but I flipped to the channel, and they were on it) same with ----> Crowbar, David Flair and Daphney were all annoying, although David Flair was around for quite sometime before those 3 started teaming up.

I didn't know about the finger poke of doom, Hogans firing, Vince Russo or any of that stuff until years later, whenever youtube started to get popular. But everything in that last paragraph should have never happened.

I remember thinking him being in the Wolf-pac was cool for awhile. But I don't remember anything that happened much in that little stable at all. The only thing I remember from that time is Sting taking off the NWO shirt to reveal that he was in the Wolfpac..and that's all I remember of Sting doing anything. I know he started talking a lot more, but I can't remember any feuds he was in with.

The last feud I remember that Sting had, besides Hogan, was Scott Hall for the World Title at Uncensored 98. I don't remember much of Sting after that. Besides the Wolfpac..

That is insane to me, thinking back, Sting was their selling point and most popular star. Maybe around that time, Goldberg was the biggest face, but to think that Sting left around that time is just, what? why?

I didn't notice that back then, but thinking of it now (other than maybe Sting wanting time off) is just strange, considering it wasn't much later that WWE started dominating. And what they did to Sting's character when he came back was just stupid.

I remember Sting against Vampiro, and Vampiro was no where NEAR Sting's level, much like Kidman wasn't on Hogans level.

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I remember Sting against Vampiro, and Vampiro was no where NEAR Sting's level, much like Kidman wasn't on Hogans level.

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ah the New Blood vs Millionaires Club........holy divinity we would need a seperate sub board to discuss how effed up that was.

agreed.pivotal event in WCWs history.

the list of talented guys they canned is an impressive one.Austin and HHH being amongst them.hell they sacked Waltman too-a massive part of DX v2s winning nature.

not to mention they brought Edge in briefly as jobber talent...