Anyone who SHOULD have been in the NWO

[AriadosMan]

Considering almost everyone not named "DDP" or "Goldberg" wore an NWO t-shirt at some point, I can't think of anyone else who should have been in it.

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I think Bret should've been either definitely in or out of the original nWo. The whole "playing the fence" thing was stupid and just helped him get lost in the shuffle.

It's a shame there was a supposed Hart Foundation ban in WCW. I'd have had the nWo trying to lure Bret into the group and then bringing in Bulldog and Neidhart to help get Bret to join. Bret would decline and the nWo would lay out Bulldog and Neidhart, leading to a Hogan/Bret and Outsiders/Bulldog and Neidhart program.

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I loved the lackey role that Louie Spicolli, then the Disco Inferno, played.

That was necessary to the growth of the nWo. You needed someone willing to accept the matches against the huge stars, and get slaughtered trying.

"Ok, you want to join? Well, here's how you do it...You got the Giant and Lex Luger in a handicap match. Make us proud."

Of course, it was set up for the guy to fail. But, it was smart.

[Mr. Mediocre]

sandman said:

I loved the lackey role that Louie Spicolli, then the Disco Inferno, played.

That was necessary to the growth of the nWo. You needed someone willing to accept the matches against the huge stars, and get slaughtered trying.

"Ok, you want to join? Well, here's how you do it...You got the Giant and Lex Luger in a handicap match. Make us proud."

Of course, it was set up for the guy to fail. But, it was smart.

I was of the opinion that the NWO didn't need to grow. It was a group of elites to start, and that's how it should have stayed. The recruiting drive was a terrible idea - it watered down the concept.

[Hiroshi Hase]

korngold said:

Yeah Norton was overkill. My memory is fuzzy but I seem to recall Horace Hogan and Virgil really shouldn't have been in it either. By the time they were nWo I thought Eric had ran through all the WWE big names and was looking for anybody who was even remotely associated with wrestling.

Not really, Vincent/Virgil joined the group a week after Syxx/X-Pac did, while they were still hot.

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explodinglimo said:

sandman said:

I loved the lackey role that Louie Spicolli, then the Disco Inferno, played.

That was necessary to the growth of the nWo. You needed someone willing to accept the matches against the huge stars, and get slaughtered trying.

"Ok, you want to join? Well, here's how you do it...You got the Giant and Lex Luger in a handicap match. Make us proud."

Of course, it was set up for the guy to fail. But, it was smart.

I was of the opinion that the NWO didn't need to grow. It was a group of elites to start, and that's how it should have stayed. The recruiting drive was a terrible idea - it watered down the concept.

Well, you had to have one guy in the group you could beat. The Horsemen were an elite group of guys, but they always had the one guy you start with when in a feud with them. (Usually an Anderson.)

That makes the group seem vulnerable. If there is no way you could beat anybody in a stable, the fans will assume they're unbeatable and not accept any type of feud with them, because in the end, the unbeatable stable wins every time.

I'm not condoning them asking Stevie Ray, Ray Traylor, all these other lower mid-card guys. But, you had to have one guy you could beat.
And, remember, the lackey was not even an official member. He was trying to impress the nWo to get in. As many times as we've seen Disco in an nWo Wolfpac shirt, he never got in.

I liked that bit.

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

Had one of my all-time favorites, Brian Pillman, been alive and able to perform and under contract to WCW at the time, I think he would have fit in as a defactor. (since, had he stayed in WCW, he would have had no ties to the WWF. Somehow, though, I think it would have worked.)

[Welfare Willis]

yjc1019 said:

korngold said:

Yeah Norton was overkill. My memory is fuzzy but I seem to recall Horace Hogan and Virgil really shouldn't have been in it either. By the time they were nWo I thought Eric had ran through all the WWE big names and was looking for anybody who was even remotely associated with wrestling.

Not really, Vincent/Virgil joined the group a week after Syxx/X-Pac did, while they were still hot.

My timeline may be off I still thought Vincent/Virgil was not needed.

[Hiroshi Hase]

korngold said:

yjc1019 said:

Not really, Vincent/Virgil joined the group a week after Syxx/X-Pac did, while they were still hot.

My timeline may be off I still thought Vincent/Virgil was not needed.

Maybe so, but I didn't mind too much. I think it got out of hand when they started getting Norton, Bagwell, Wallstreet, Big Bubba, etc.

[hobo]

They needed Syxx. Wasn't the original point that the nWo was going to hold all of the belts? You need a cruiserweight to hold the cruserweight title. So the lineup should have been: Hogan as world champ, Outsiders as tag champs, Syxx as cruiserweight champ, with Jarrett and DDP holding the US and television titles. See, you only need six members to hold all the major titles.

I never thought about Rude, but honestly I liked him a lot better with DX than the nWo. Maybe if he had joined earlier at the beginning of nWo...

Vincent was, I think where the stable was first watered down. If he had to be involved, he should have come out in an nWo shirt and ask Dibiase to join. Dibiase then should have betrayed him and ordered the guys to beat him down, like Hogan did at Bash at the Beach.

[BorneAgain]

Hogan (World Title), Savage (U.S. Title), Hall & Nash (Tag Titles), Syxx (Cruiserweight Title) a mid-carder [DDP, Hennig, Jericho] (Television Title) and Dibiase (to be replaced by Bischoff), would have worked fine. They would have had ready made groups for when a split happens: The Megapowers/Sixth Wrestler vs. Outsiders/Syxx.

Having the Giant, when you already had Nash, was overkill and made them too powerful.

[Welfare Willis]

yjc1019 said:

korngold said:

My timeline may be off I still thought Vincent/Virgil was not needed.

Maybe so, but I didn't mind too much. I think it got out of hand when they started getting Norton, Bagwell, Wallstreet, Big Bubba, etc.

I can agree with that.

Big Bubba? I'm trying to remember who that is. You know it was bad when the nWo could double for the white queen's army in the Chronicles of Naria.

[Mr. Mediocre]

korngold said:

yjc1019 said:

Maybe so, but I didn't mind too much. I think it got out of hand when they started getting Norton, Bagwell, Wallstreet, Big Bubba, etc.

I can agree with that.

Big Bubba? I'm trying to remember who that is. You know it was bad when the nWo could double for the white queen's army in the Chronicles of Naria.

Big Bubba was Ray Traylor, a.k.a. The Big Boss Man.