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Post by The American Daydream on May 17, 2024 13:47:39 GMT -5
Didn't know if this belonged in the classic section or the "other feds" section bc it's kind of neither and kind of both. Feel free to move it mods.
I had a random question and seeing as we have some old timers here that could shed light on what it was like back then, I was just wondering what happened to hardcore WCW stans when they went out of business? Did you guys begrudgingly start watching the competition or stop watching wrasslin altogether? If you did keep watching, did you become a WWE fan over time or not?
I imagine majority watched both and alternated between products depending on how good the content was at the time.
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Post by LA Times on May 17, 2024 14:28:39 GMT -5
In his newsletter roughly 2 years after WCW shut down, Dave Meltzer said many of them stopped watching wrestling and never came back. The WWF/E sealed their own fate buying WCW and the piss poor product since 2009 is a result.
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Post by The American Daydream on May 17, 2024 16:41:19 GMT -5
In his newsletter roughly 2 years after WCW shut down, Dave Meltzer said many of them stopped watching wrestling and never came back. The WWF/E sealed their own fate buying WCW and the piss poor product since 2009 is a result. I think the craziest part about this new info (to me) is that people actually subscribed to a Meltzer newsletter |
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on May 17, 2024 17:58:20 GMT -5
I never agree with Meltzer but I do admit that WWE went on a slow downfall from 02.
TNA was also born in 2002 and it was a great product during most of the 00's so it would've been a good alternate for fans who didn't like WWE.
Just a pity 2010 happened.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on May 17, 2024 18:50:26 GMT -5
It felt so weird how both WCW & ECW went away at the time. Attitude Era was over as well. 97-98-99 was the most hyped years.
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Post by The American Daydream on May 17, 2024 21:17:02 GMT -5
It felt so weird how both WCW & ECW went away at the time. Attitude Era was over as well. 97-98-99 was the most hyped years. I believe I started watching weekly around 98-99 when I was 5-6 years old. |
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Post by J-MANN: Trios Champion on May 17, 2024 21:28:59 GMT -5
It felt so weird how both WCW & ECW went away at the time. Attitude Era was over as well. 97-98-99 was the most hyped years. I believe I started watching weekly around 98-99 when I was 5-6 years old. Same. But I was 7-8 years old. Great memories. |
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on May 17, 2024 21:34:49 GMT -5
It felt so weird how both WCW & ECW went away at the time. Attitude Era was over as well. 97-98-99 was the most hyped years. I believe I started watching weekly around 98-99 when I was 5-6 years old. 98 is my fav year of all time. WWF,WCW,ECW all doing their thing. |
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Post by Next Man’s Yeeter on May 18, 2024 3:04:28 GMT -5
If people were hardcore fans of WCW (and are still on wrestling forums 20+ years later), they just moved on to WWF and/or the money mark WCW knock-offs that sprang up over the years.
But there were a lot of people that watched WCW on Monday nights who weren’t hardcore fans, and they just gave up on the wrestling fad when WCW ended.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on May 18, 2024 9:25:29 GMT -5
I stopped watching WCW once Arquette & Russo held the titles. I stopped watching WWE once Benoit died. If I needed a wrestling fix, I'd watch my Roddy Piper, World Class or New Japan/All Japan VHS cassettes.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on May 18, 2024 15:33:06 GMT -5
If people were hardcore fans of WCW (and are still on wrestling forums 20+ years later), they just moved on to WWF and/or the money mark WCW knock-offs that sprang up over the years. But there were a lot of people that watched WCW on Monday nights who weren’t hardcore fans, and they just gave up on the wrestling fad when WCW ended. Sounds about right tbh. I'd say the same thing in regards to the WWF fans, many ran away once the Attitude Era ended. WCW had some loyal fans tho, they stuck around til the very end...even during WCWs worst years lol. |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on May 18, 2024 18:19:49 GMT -5
I loved WCW then, but I also loved ECW and the WWF then. I loved USWA up until 1997 when it died. I loved Smoky Mountain Wrestling up until 1995 when it died.
For me, I wasn't just a fan of one wrestling company - compared to how fans try to be today. I was a fan of everything! So when WCW died, it sucked. But I still had WWF Raw and Smackdown to watch weekly.
So when WCW died, it was just one less night for me to watch wrestling.
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Post by nWp: Trios Champion on May 19, 2024 8:33:15 GMT -5
I was more of a WCW fan as a kid but by 99 I was pretty much full on WWF so I had already kinda positioned myself before WCW died.
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Post by ¡Twist Of Lime Green Jello! on May 19, 2024 19:40:37 GMT -5
I watched WCW growing up. It was on free TV whereas Raw was on cable which we didn't have. When we finally did get it, I was still Team WCW and watched it pretty much to the end. I had no interest in WWF because I couldn't be bothered investing myself in another promotion. It wasn't until around mid 2002 that I started watching WWE.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on May 21, 2024 19:01:18 GMT -5
WCW in 97/98 was insane. 99 had some good stuff in there sometimes.
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Post by nWp: Trios Champion on May 21, 2024 19:32:30 GMT -5
WCW in 97/98 was insane. 99 had some good stuff in there sometimes. 97 is my favorite year of WCW tbh |
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Post by J-MANN: Trios Champion on May 21, 2024 20:26:56 GMT -5
WCW in 97/98 was insane. 99 had some good stuff in there sometimes. 97 is my favorite year of WCW tbh Good stuff tbh |
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on May 21, 2024 21:46:05 GMT -5
WCW in 97/98 was insane. 99 had some good stuff in there sometimes. 97 is my favorite year of WCW tbh What a year |
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Post by CM Tusk on May 22, 2024 0:19:13 GMT -5
If I’m not mistaken, we ran them out of their homes and towns.
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Post by BSR on May 22, 2024 5:06:26 GMT -5
I'm probably the biggest WCW fan here. I skimmed through some of the invasion when it was happening. Ric flair and the nWo brought me back for a while but the nWo was handled so piss poorly. Along with guys like Steiner, and even booker t for a long time. Id skin here and there. Ironically Benoit winning the world title brought me back for a while too. Same with the Eddie stuff. It was cool seeing bischoff on tv when all that went on but it wasn't the same.
I mostly watched everything tna for a long time. Roh as well. Around 2006 I just gave up on wwe altogether. I saw a lot of guys I grew up on murdered by triple h over and over. (And go figure he beat sting too). I came back for Daniel Bryan. Once that all ended I stopped again. Since then I've briefly if at all watched their product except for the occasional rumble, or mania.
Aew kinda fills the void. Especially with how they handled sting. I'll never be able to believe that the bosses son in law is above a ric flair, or a Goldberg, or sting.
The guy booking the product wasn't even the draw when he was active during the attitude era but I'm supposed to believe he can beat an entire companies stars one by one for the same title they wore proudly.
Absolutely not.
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