World Championship Wrestling 1997: Week 2 Is Up!

Interesting, the roster does have mistakes though, I do see you got the roster off solie.org. For example, you get loads of nicknames right, and then spell 'Psychosis' wrong and call 'Kidman' Billy Kidman. Rob Ruckus is also known as Robby Rage, Bobby Eaton was still known as 'Beautiful'. Ken Kaos is also 'Kenny Kaos'. Jacques never used the Rougeau name in WCW. It's worth looking the entire roster over.

Yeah, I went to that site and got the January 1997 WCW Roster. I will continue updating it as time goes by in WCW 1997.

Not quite.

It's the Mexican/ECW spelling for Psy, but Kidman WAS Billy Kidman, nondescript cruiserweight jobber face at this time. A few months later he'd join The Flock and lose his first name. Jacques was in fact, Jacques Rougeau in WCW, but CARL Oullette is spelled wrong. I will definitely agree that it's a good idea to go through the solie.org rosters before posting. In addition, making sure you let people know who's face, who's heel, who's in a stable, etc. Can make it a LOT easier for people less familiar with the product at the time.

Onto the first Nitro. I orignally thought it kind of felt like a weak show for Nitro, until I double checked and saw that it was the actual results that week. Wonder if maybe the bigger stars were in Japan for the Jan 4 show or something. Some of the writing is a little sloppy (Jarrett wasn't using the Stroke at the time, his finisher was a figure four, similarly Mysterio's stuff. I'd like to see it a little more consistent, and maybe proofread. I'm a big WCW nut, and I'd love to see this be really good, so you need to refine it and make it your own. Throw some angles in there, for sure.

WCW Monday Nitro: Monday 6th January 1997...Glacier and Bobby Eaton opening is a weak opening contest, would have put on something a little stronger really. Only slightly stronger anyway. Would have rather Eaton won, but WCW were really bigging up Glacier around this time. I would really cut down on the bold and italics. Use bold by all mean for the match headers, italics for match description. Also involve some other skits and occurences, this show seems ALL matches and little description. And usually after a weak opening contest we would get a main eventer cutting a promo. Wonder where that was. Konnan beating Bubba Rogers is fine, nice Strap match too. I enjoyed Konnan in 1997. Just keep him out of the cruiserweight division where his Mexican friends are. Jeff Jarrett and Arn Anderson would have put on a clinic, glad Jarrett won, he's in control now. And yeah, Jarrett didn't debut the Stroke until the WWF in 1998. Jim Duggan and Steven Regal for the WCW World Television Championship is the right way to go. Would be painful watching them fight to a draw though. Don't rush the title back on Regal, but please put it on him at some point. Hugh Morrus with a win is cool. Jim Powers? Local? Definitely not, the dude was in the WWF at one point. Rey Mysterio Jr beating Psychosis was a good match, nice viewing of the cruiserweight division tonight. I loved their match at the Bash at the Beach 1996. Kevin Sullivan with an easy win against the near nothing Chavo Guerrero Jr. Eddie Guerrero had a good win against Alex Wright, Wright was still semi relevant here. Harlem Heat with a decent win against the French Canadians. It did the job. Lex Luger and Meng is a weak main event. Luger with a clean win is nice. Overall, very weak and nothing happening show. You set up the guidelines, but did very little to promote Souled Out in three weeks. Though you have WCW Saturday Night that was still packed like Nitro, it still isn't much. Every match ended cleanly, and there was very low indication of storyline. No non-wrestling, which is a bad thing in this what is known as traditional wrestling/sports entertainment. But oh boy, would have been a slap in the face to RAW had they still lost to this. I did like the Eric Bischoff promo, focus on storylines a bit more on Nitro next week. More note of Souled Out, and I realise you copied the actual Nitro card from the episode, so make the matches original next week. nWo Nitro on the same time as WCW Nitro would be a clusterf*ck. Just make Thunder if you have to. Keep in mind that you have Saturday Night to work with as well. Keep emphasis on Saturday Night, it was very important at this stage. Hope you don't debut Bill Goldberg too early, he would DEFINITELY not be ready now because he was green up until about April 1998 to be honest. Got SO many improvements, if you work on all of them, you will get this diary flying. Also, do more storylines than just nWo vs Sting/WCW.