Favorite spinoff nWo faction?

[Cry Me a Wiggle]

Everyone always reminisces about the original nWo (which, for the sake of this poll, lasted from July 1996 to January 4 1999, despite the nWo B-Team technically being a direct continuation of that lineage), but when it comes to the later versions, conventional wisdom states that they were dilutions of the concept and WCW (or the WWF) should have left well enough alone. However, there was good to be found in each later version (well... not so much the B-Team), and revisionist history has overwritten how phenomenally over the face Wolfpack was in 1998. So which of these was your favorite?

Note that I'm not including parody groups like the Latino World Order, One Warrior Nation, or Blue World Order. Only official factions spun-off from the original nWo group.

1. nWo Wolfpack: Face Version
Leader: Kevin Nash
Members: Sting, Lex Luger, Konnan, Randy Savage
(Also briefly included Curt Hennig and Rick Rude, but they quickly turned heel again)

2. nWo Wolfpack: Heel Version
Leader: Hollywood Hogan
Members: Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Lex Luger, Scott Steiner, Buff Bagwell, Disco Inferno, David Flair, Elizabeth, Torrie Wilson
(Also included Eric Bischoff, who seemed to have dual membership with the B-Team, and Rick Steiner, who officially wore the Red and Black on one episode of Thunder in mid-to-late spring 1999 before the Wolfpack was quietly dropped)

3. nWo B-Team
Leader: Stevie Ray
Members: Curt Hennig, The Giant, Vincent, Horace Hogan, Brian Adams
(Also included Eric Bischoff, who seemed to have dual membership with the Wolfpack)

4. nWo Black and Silver
Leader: Bret Hart
Members: Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, Ron and Don Harris
(Vince Russo and Ed Ferrera as The Powers That Be were the off-camera founders of this incarnation, but never officially appeared with the group)

5. WWE nWo
Leader: Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Shawn Michaels
Members: Scott Hall, X-Pac, Big Show, and Booker T
(Ric Flair was an unofficial ally of the group during this time)

[BrodietheSlayer]

I guess it would be the Wolf Pac: Face version.....a nice collection of stars, and I always thought the black and red NWO logos looked cooler than the black and white. They could have been a bigger thing with WCW, ala DX, but they were crammed in the middle of a WCW summer that included: The Rise of Goldberg, the back to back Hogan celeb matches, the reformation of the Horsemen, and the return of the Warrior. They couldn't help but get kind of shuffled into the background a bit, until the NWO reformed into Option #2 (which was pointless).

[TGM]

It still amazes me that the first Wolfpac's sheer popularity is glossed over so often.

[vinnie245]

Jan 24, 2013 6:05:39 GMT -5 TGM said:

It still amazes me that the first Wolfpac's sheer popularity is glossed over so often.

Exactly, everyone seems to forget that they were over like rover in 98 and when Nash beat Golberg the pop was HUGE.
True Sting and Luger joining didn't exactly make sence but neither did most of the Black and White additions either.
I will always be a fan of the wolfpack
"YOU MIGHT WIND UP IN A BODYBAG"

[TheDarkestKnight]

The face version of the Wolfpac.
Like BrodietheSlayer the Black and Red seemed much cooler to me.

[Hit Girl]

LWO

[Push R Truth]

Whomever had Disco Inferno was bound to be awesome.

[mrmulluk]

nWo Japan, that angle of Muta shaking chono's hand, the nwo facepaint. Loved it.

[Jimmy]

Not that they are anybodies favorites, but The Band and Immortal are definite nWo ripoffs using original nWo guys, so it's basically the same as a spinoff.

[Deleted]

What about The Band in TNA

[DragonMasterP]

I say Wolfpac face version, and it's a bit of a shame they almost always looked like chumps when going against nWo Hollywood.

[Starshine]

Jan 24, 2013 11:17:23 GMT -5 vinnie245 said:

Jan 24, 2013 6:05:39 GMT -5 TGM said:

It still amazes me that the first Wolfpac's sheer popularity is glossed over so often.

Exactly, everyone seems to forget that they were over like rover in 98 and when Nash beat Golberg the pop was HUGE.
True Sting and Luger joining didn't exactly make sence but neither did most of the Black and White additions either.
I will always be a fan of the wolfpack
"YOU MIGHT WIND UP IN A BODYBAG"

If they had not used the NWO name and just called the group the Wolfpac, I think it would be more fondly remembered.

[Cry Me a Wiggle]

I think the face Wolfpack was actually the logical endgame of the nWo. Hogan, Bischoff, and the lesser members of the nWo were usually booed, while Nash and Hall were usually cheered. Create a face splinter faction to capitalize on it, have them team up with WCW to destroy the Hogan group, then keep the red and black around as the small stable it got over as.

I still don't understand why people don't remember how over that group was, but I guess it was a relatively small drop-in-the-bucket in WCW history, especially since it coincided (as mentioned above) with the rise of Goldberg and other highly-publicity storylines at the time. Still, I think the heelification of the group is what actually hurt WCW with the Fingerpoke of Doom, not the match itself or Tony's Foley comments (which is complete revisionist history on WWE's part... that had no effect on the Monday Night War). Losing the hottest babyface act right after they diminished Goldberg's mystique with the end of the streak was a one-two punch that WCW didn't think through.