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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2012 16:06:16 GMT -5
I've been going back and rewatching some old WCW from 2000-2001 and forgot how much of an unstoppable force Steiner was when he was taking everyone out as WCW Champion.
Does anyone know how the whole thing was supposed to end? After he took out Nash at Superbrawl Revenge and he his "career was over", and then he took out DDP at Greed, was the plan always for Booker T to come back and take out Steiner and get the title back? I assume they rushed the storyline since the final Nitro was only a week later, where Booker T defeated Steiner.
Granted WCW was in a mess, I would have liked to seen them get on a new network and under ownership of Bischoff.
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Post by sideeffect on Jan 25, 2012 21:48:41 GMT -5
Steiner was on fire...with what i read, before the final Nitro, it was planned that a reboot would take place in May with WCW Big Bang being the first ppv for the "new WCW"...not sure where Steiner would have ended up. Then of course they were sold to WWF before it all could happen.
There would have been fresh feuds, faces, heels, etc.
I always thought WCW was getting better in 2001...too bad it ended
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Post by punksnotdead on Jan 25, 2012 22:36:37 GMT -5
I loved main event Scott Steiner from 2000 and until the dying days.
I'm pretty sure that Booker T was made champion prematurely because he was actually going to be on WWE programming once they made the switch. Steiner was sitting out his contract and thus the reason for that title change, which sucked imo because I wanted Steiner to win. I'm not sure WCW new the answer at that time what they were doing if I were to guess. They had something with the storyline imo, since it really built over an entire year, and I sort of have to believe that at some point Booker would have still been the guy to take the title from Steiner. There was always the possibility that Nash came back out or retirement to face Steiner or that DDP wanted retribution from Greed but I just think the feud was really between Steiner and Booker, as they were WCW's Austin and Rock at the time imo.
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Post by cordless2016 on Jan 26, 2012 0:18:21 GMT -5
Steiner was the man in WCW from 2000-2001. The guys character's was at its peak and he was actually putting on decent to good matches when he was put w/ others who were good workers. He even put on an entertaining match w/ Goldberg at Fall Brawl 2000. It's a shame he wasn't apart of the Invasion storyline because I remember people always talking about who was the better heel from 2000-2001 between Steiner and HHH. Would have been cool to have seen those two as heels trying to one up eachother.
As for what the plan was, I've heard that w/ the planned "reboot" for WCW that all the guys Steiner had "taken out" would have returned and wanted revenege, which would have resulted in Steiner having to fend off multiple faces. I've heard different rumors that it was going to be either Goldberg or Booker to have finally dethrowned him for the title. I would have prefered Booker but Steiner and Goldberg always had good brawls w/ eachother as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2012 11:43:26 GMT -5
Steiners Match with Goldberg at Fall Brawl 2000 was effin awesome-and it was booked SO well.its on dailymotion in great quality
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Post by cordless2016 on Jan 26, 2012 17:02:49 GMT -5
Steiners Match with Goldberg at Fall Brawl 2000 was effin awesome-and it was booked SO well.its on dailymotion in great quality I loved the match right up until Russo came out. He didn't need to be out there. Steiner could have still gone over w/out Russo getting involved. But as a whole the match was great and a MOTY candidate for WCW. |
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Post by LeighD on Jan 28, 2012 23:39:42 GMT -5
I loved Steiner's push in 2000 right through WCW's last day. I felt he was robber on a great push, but no one's fault really. Just bad timing. Definitely could see a hard hitting feud with Goldberg in late-2001.
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Post by specterkev on Feb 21, 2012 22:23:29 GMT -5
I love when he was unstopable, and he carried around that pipe and beat the hell out of everybody.. I think TNA should have done this with him,..but they dropped the ball.
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Post by specterkev on Feb 21, 2012 22:24:31 GMT -5
I always thought WCW was getting better in 2001...too bad it ended I agree in 200 WCw was gettingreally bad it got to where i didn't watch it much anymore...but in 2001, very early, i started watching it again and started to enjoy it more.. |
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Post by LeighD on Feb 23, 2012 22:05:01 GMT -5
I agree that WCW was becoming increasingly better once Steiner won the World Title. Steiner was on fire since then and took on some big names.
i do remember WCW talking about the Big bang PPV as a complete reboot. But I don't think much was ever set in stone.
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Post by specterkev on Feb 24, 2012 2:19:21 GMT -5
I agree that WCW was becoming increasingly better once Steiner won the World Title. Steiner was on fire since then and took on some big names. i do remember WCW talking about the Big bang PPV as a complete reboot. But I don't think much was ever set in stone.  yup,.. pitty,.. I would like to have seen what they had done.. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2012 10:37:20 GMT -5
Steiners Match with Goldberg at Fall Brawl 2000 was effin awesome-and it was booked SO well.its on dailymotion in great quality I loved the match right up until Russo came out. He didn't need to be out there. Steiner could have still gone over w/out Russo getting involved. But as a whole the match was great and a MOTY candidate for WCW. yup its awesome. neither man had ever been flung around in this fashion before.....it was heated too and the crowd clearly lapped it up. |
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Post by punksnotdead on Feb 24, 2012 12:12:02 GMT -5
The problem I have with Big Bang, is that the product didn't really need "Revamped" imo. Big Bang felt like something along the lines of what Russo did in 2000 when he stripped all of the titles and tried to reboot, which was even worse than what was going on already, much worse imo.
I would have liked to see some new guys come in from ECW, Corino who was signed, and definitely bring back DDP, Nash and Goldberg, but with Steiner as champion and Booker T really making the US Title look main event worthy, which I think would have led to a Champion vs Champion match, I think they just needed to focus on elevating the young guys like O'Haire and the Thrillers, AJ Styles, Chris Harris and James Storm, and WCW just needed the right storylines because they had SO much talent. I just don't think it necessitated anything catastrophic to make people care again.
Obviously, we will never know, but it sucks to be left speculating. I never really thought much about it but has Bischoff ever commented on it? Or said what he had planned?
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