moonpies88
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Post by moonpies88 on Jul 25, 2020 23:56:05 GMT -5
Did anyone think it was kinda weird that the Macho Man of all people was defending WCW? I mean he had been in WCW for about 18 months and from my memory, no one EVER suspected him as the 3rd man with Nash and Hall
I mean you could have had Flair with Luger and Sting (but then you have the whole can Sting trust Flair thing going on)
It was just kinda weird how everyone was acting like the Macho Man had been with WCW for 10+ years
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Retrospect
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Post by Retrospect on Jul 26, 2020 0:46:23 GMT -5
I would have rather had Flair in there but he was a heel at the time. I remember it being an issue during the buildup to war games because Flair and Arn were tagging with Sting and Luger and they hated each other. I think the reason they chose Macho was so Hogan could turn on him. On a side note did anyone think it was weird that they all had the Sting face paint on?
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Post by JokerFC on Jul 26, 2020 8:09:56 GMT -5
I remember thinking on the build that Macho was a weird choice too...but as Kevin Sullivan said? They hadnt got that many choices for the slot. Sullivan explained...
Luger was selected to take the bump early and have the crowd suspect him because his character was a total snake at the time. Prior to nWo they were teasing him turning on Sting.
Sting was in there because he was THE WCW guy..BUT they didnt want him being the one beaten down at the end. Savage was selected because of his history with Hogan & he was going to be the 1st challenger for the strap when Hogan got it.
They considered heels being involved but felt the Hogan turn was too important to gamble him being possibly cheered by whooping on Flair.
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Ohtimate Wahriah
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Post by Ohtimate Wahriah on Jul 26, 2020 10:47:02 GMT -5
Yea, I definitely think it was more about Macho being a top guy rather than the story line making sense. I honestly don’t think WCW had a solid idea of where they wanted to go with the nWo yet, because the alternative to Hogan would have been Sting. That leads me to believe they weren’t even committed yet to the nWo being all former WWF guys, otherwise the alternative to Hogan SHOULD have been Savage or even Luger.
I think as it played out they kinda shaped it as a WWF vs WCW angle but at the time of this match I think that was a concept, but not necessarily the plan. Savage was a top WCW star and if he wasn’t fighting off the nWo, where exactly would he stand? He’s still a top guy, it’s not like you can leave him off the card until he inevitably joins the nWo as to not spoil it
Also at that time in not 100% sure everybody realized the nWo would only be composed of all former WWF guys, otherwise the storyline would have exposed itself before it even got going.
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Post by Nivro™ on Jul 26, 2020 11:12:27 GMT -5
Every time they did WCW vs nWo thing they screwed up the WCW side. The only time they got it right was at Fall Brawl where it was Flair, Arn, Luger & Sting but then Sting walked out to start his turn/new gimmick.
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Post by MKSavage on Jul 26, 2020 19:14:09 GMT -5
I remember thinking on the build that Macho was a weird choice too...but as Kevin Sullivan said? They hadnt got that many choices for the slot. Sullivan explained... Luger was selected to take the bump early and have the crowd suspect him because his character was a total snake at the time. Prior to nWo they were teasing him turning on Sting. Sting was in there because he was THE WCW guy..BUT they didnt want him being the one beaten down at the end. Savage was selected because of his history with Hogan & he was going to be the 1st challenger for the strap when Hogan got it. They considered heels being involved but felt the Hogan turn was too important to gamble him being possibly cheered by whooping on Flair. What Sullivan says does make sense. Plus, by not putting Flair or Arn in their at the Bash you get to add them to Fall Brawl and make it something different entirely. Had they put Flair in the match with Sting and Luger, then you would have basically gotten a repeat at Fall Brawl. Not to mention, by having them go over Savage, Luger, and Sting at the Bash then having them go over Flair and Arn at Fall Brawl, they really built up the NWO as a dominant group. This really was WCW story building at its best. The building up of the NWO to a dominant force and the slow build to Hogan/Sting was great, too bad everything after that was questionable at best. |
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rateddal
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Post by rateddal on Jul 27, 2020 8:03:00 GMT -5
The team was selected by lottery so there was no way of fixing that. They just got lucky that 3 of the biggest stars in the company won that lottery. End Sarcasm
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