My theory of the nWo Wolfpac

[arthuradams2002]

I think Kevin Nash said in an interview, "if someone asked how to get a guy over, I said put an nWo shirt on him."

When the nWo formed, it was one of those really confusing times. They were heels and fans were throwing trash at them at the end of the night, but nWo merchandise was outselling any WCW merchandise. So, they figured why not create a babyface faction of the nWo. Hence, the wolfpac was born. They probably figured this would help boost their nWo merchandise. Plus at this point, the original black and white shirt was played out and WCW management needed a new shirt to sell. I remember when they introduced the Red and Black shirt, the Black and White shirt got reduced to being sold in Walmart and Kmart.

[T Vang is a HO-DADDY~!]

Yes, however, I think most people already know this "theory"

[conebone69]

Not to mention another part of it was that by that point the nWo itself was getting pretty stale, not just the shirts.

On a side note, Nash said that he originally wanted a different line-up for the Wolfpac. He said many times that "the wolfpac is me, Scott and the kid, that's our thing." But with Waltman gone, Nash wanted Himself, Hall, Bagwell, and Konan. Maybe even Scott Steiner, not sure. He wasn't to keen on Luger joining or Sting for that matter, and although he was pretty cool with Savage, he wanted a hipper feel. When he was informed what kind of cut he was to get from merchandising, he gladly deferred.

Although that story was told to me by Jamie Dundee, so I guess it could be taken with a grain of salt.

[flatsdomino]

Sting should NEVER have been a member of anything even remotely NWO-related. They may have been a face splinter group of the NWO, but the moment Sting joined the wolfpac was when the whole NWO thing just jumped the shark and stopped making ANY sense. As it was, the NWO should've dissolved after Starrcade '97, but as we know that didn't happen; however, having the NWO start to dissolve by having Nash lead a face version of the NWO was actually a pretty cool way to keep the storyline going and get as much out of it as possible. But they just did it all wrong; everyone got sucked up into it, and they totally lost the plot of what was actually going on in the first place, so much so that the wolfpac's reasons for forming were completely forgotten by around mid-98. Sting joining was emblematic of this: Sting's character should have been the ONE WCW diehard who would NEVER join (Not counting Goldberg as he wasn't a "diehard WCW soldier" but a whole other entity) and would fight ANY incarnation of the NWO until they were all gone. WWE may be awful with continuity a lot of the time, but WCW was just awful back in '98-99 (And ESPECIALLY once Russo joined) in terms of forgetting exactly WHY what was going on was even happening, and what character's whole motivations were to begin with.

[kingoftheindies]

in one of Nash's shoots he said that the Wolfpac/nWo Hollywood was supposed to be a civil war that ended at Starcade with some type of match (either one on one or a 10 man match) with the losing group having to disband, and if it was 1-on-1 it was going to be him vs Hogan. Not a great match to watch, but in 98 would've been a draw with how over Nash was (and he was over ever since he broke away from Hogan)

Nash said thoe plans quickly changed mainly because of how over Goldberg got, and the FO guys and Hogan really started to panic about ratings so they went with giving Goldberg the title, but had no plans on what to do with him after he won the title. So they switched plans to him vs. Hall and Sting vs Bret.

This interview was actually interesting cause Nash said that once the changes took place, they had no idea what to do with the feud (combined with Hall's alcohol problem, and Sting going through personal issues)