Why the WCW Hate?

WCW gets a TON of hate, but it's not like people consider WWE to do everything right.

Katie Vick was considered awful by everyone. Nobody likes that angle. Fake Razor and Diesel was also a stupid idea and everyone acknowledges that. Both of those don't make the WCW dumber, both companies just did dumb things.

Nacho Man and Huckster were dumb, but Oklahoma was way worse. The dude won the Cruiserweight Title. The Mae Young angle was awful and the Choppy Choppy was bad too, just as bad as a Viagra on a Pole match.

The last two are the ones I have issues with. WWE brought in models to wrestle...in a wrestling company. While some of them didn't improve much, someone like Trish went on to be amazing. Nitro Girls were literally cheerleaders for wrestling.

Viscera as the Love Machine wasn't great, but it was a funny little character for him. Mike Awesome had potential to be a big deal in WCW and was saddled with a stupid gimmick. Stupid gimmicks are alright for a guy like Vis, not for someone who could've been a major player.

Part of it, at least to me, is that we get that revisionist history, WWE and books like the Death of WCW tell this story that WCW was really bad and they had like one brief shining moment with the NWO during it's initial stages. But they downplay everything else and say that it was nothing but bad booking, poor characters, signing old WWF guys, and the like. WCW had a lot of great stuff that no one talks about, I'm not trying to say that it's all roses and sunshine, I think sadly, the bad outweighs the good. But if you actually took a look at WCW grand scale, you' see just how good it was at certain points. Even during the dying days, they had some good stuff here and there. IT's like the WWE telling you now with the Monday Night Wars show and dvd releases that the Attitude Era was this awesome time frame for wrestling and that they were hitting home runs left and right, but you watch it now and you realize it was riddled with bad booking, lame gimmicks, wasted talent, etc, etc.

Holy!!  Bashcrash, I thought you were dead?!?!  I haven't seen you post on here in ever!

Perhaps you need to spend more time here if you think everyone is super positive about everything WWE does. Cause I've never once seen anyone praise the bolded....

I had a typo, but I think your point is valid about the Nitro Girls.

But, Viscera was also a guy who could have been made into a big deal (see Big Daddy V, King Mabel)--especially in WWE where giants can rule the ring (e.g. Khali).

I agree with all of this. To the victor goes the spoils, I guess. I just can't believe how easily persuaded a lot of fans are to think that WCW just got lucky with one awesome angle (i.e., nWo) and that was that.

I mean they did a lot of things that I found entertaining:
1) Flair v. Sting
2) Turning Scott Steiner into a legit maniac
3) Bringing in Stacy Keibler
4) Cruiserweights
5) Goldberg
6) Realism in Wrestling with nWo


I always found that WWE may have made the characters, but WCW brought the needed changes to evolve the sport.

Without WCW's Cruiserweight Division, no X-Division exists, and the body builder mode would be the default look for wrestlers. Guys like Regal, Malenko, Canadian Crossfacer, Byran, Punk, Styles, Daniels don't exist.

Without nWo, everybody is still working part time jobs as a drug dealer, truck driver, clown, plumber. The nWo angle allowed wrestlers to be "themselves" and not have to be a barber, butcher, zodiac.

Arguably WCW only created 3 singles stars in their dying days: Goldberg, DDP, and Scott Steiner. WWE however created Cena, Angle, Canadian Crossfacer, Eddie Guerrero, Orton, etc. WCW couldn't make stars, but could reinvent the sport.

WWE was reactive. WCW adaptive. WCW took risks, whereas WWE only changed because it had to to sustain itself. WCW didn't have the mainstream appeal to make names, which is why it relied heavily on cross promotions. WWE could do it because of their name alone.

Viscera had his chance in 1995 man......but as King Mabel he hurt Undertaker & Diesel & had tremendous heat backstage for his carelessness in the ring. Several wrestlers threatened him in fact.

Two major differences between BAD WWF story lines and bad WCW story lines during the War. Most of the terrible WWF angles, for the most part, still were entertaining. Mae Young giving birth to a hand was hysterical when I was a 13 year old. Awful wrestling storyline, but still funny. Same with a pornstar getting his wang chopped off by a mr Miyagi imitator. Bad WCW story lines were just bad, often times pretty offensive, and usually abandoned or changed with little or no rhyme or reason.

Second, as someone else mentioned, there were story lines behind even the smallest, worst angles in WWF. It was a linear storyline with arcs. The bad stuff in WCW made you wonder if you missed several episodes of Nitro.

Aaaaaand I stopped taking your post seriously right about there.