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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 13, 2020 13:16:58 GMT -5
Around the time when Goldberg beat Hogan in the Georgia Dome. That should have been the end of them dominating the WCW product, but then, well...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 14:39:31 GMT -5
When nobody was getting their heat back.
Nobody ever truly beat the ever living hell out of the NWO. It just got tiring after a while.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 13, 2020 15:06:41 GMT -5
When Hogan joined. No easier way to kill my interest. Introduced Hogan into something I am gonna stop watching soon afterwards.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Apr 13, 2020 15:07:12 GMT -5
Vincent
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Post by jyrierik on Apr 13, 2020 21:49:35 GMT -5
Still remember the moment I lost interest. The Arn Anderson retirement speech spoof. It just went on and on and on. And the "reason" they gave that the Horsemen didn't interfere was because "security was stopping them". I was already getting tired of Nitro having the EXACT SAME ENDING (nWo running roughshod over WCW's current "saviour") week after month after year, so I simply stopped watching until Bischoff was gone. (No, I did not pick a good time to start watching again).
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Post by romanstylesiii on Apr 13, 2020 21:50:58 GMT -5
The B-Team. Why does a faction need around 20 jobbers in it?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 13, 2020 23:08:32 GMT -5
The B-Team. Why does a faction need around 20 jobbers in it? Someone has to take the pin, if one ever happens.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 13, 2020 23:09:53 GMT -5
Fingerpoke of doom.
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Post by Dean-o on Apr 13, 2020 23:15:28 GMT -5
When the Wolfpac was formed.
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Post by meesakeemhorcha on Apr 14, 2020 11:40:27 GMT -5
The B-Team. Why does a faction need around 20 jobbers in it? Someone has to take the pin, if one ever happens. Vincent was the only jobber they needed.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 14, 2020 19:03:50 GMT -5
Starrcade 97. It became clear they had no interest in sending the fans home happy, this was all about protecting Hulk and keeping him happy.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 14, 2020 20:00:54 GMT -5
I stuck with it well into '99, because I didn't start watching WCW full-time until early 1998, so I hadn't sat through a lot of what everybody else had the previous 18 or so months. Once it got to there being a B-team and all that, and clearly no plan once Goldberg got injured and couldn't do the full "tear down the nWo brick by brick" storyline, it was clear that things were pretty much screwed.
I did get kind of hyped for a quick minute for nWo 2000, but that obviously didn't last, either.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 14, 2020 20:06:09 GMT -5
It wasn't that it started then its that it went on and on and on and on and on and on... until 1998 with no advances in the angle. They bickered with each other but that bickering never lead to a payoff with the WCW babyfaces beating them. Right. Which goes back to my above post saying Starrcade 97 should have been the end of them. if not hte absolute end it should have been the splintering... with people losing faith in Hogan...
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Post by nisidhe on Apr 14, 2020 21:23:08 GMT -5
I have always had a ridiculously low tolerance for that total heel dominance that the nWo was bringing, especially given what I knew about what was going on in the back with both WCW and WWE at the time. I knew back then that wrestling history would leave the prime figures in that angle - Hall, Nash and Hogan - in a dustbin, and I was proven largely right. It took DX's revisionism of the Monday Night War to block out the worst atrocities of NWO against the business.
Bullet Club was a fresh take on the trope mainly because of its contrast with the traditional psychology of Japanese pro wrestling. It, too, however, has waned as the original forces behind it left it behind. That it has existed twice as long than all the incarnation of the nWo combined is a testament in part to those parties' willingness to put over opponents and their genuine regard for the craft and Bullet Club's true place in NJPW.
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