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Post by cabbageboy on Dec 20, 2017 23:32:47 GMT -5
I think Bischoff himself actually. The problem with him being the mastermind is that the group ceased being a legit outside invading force. It's tough to be a renegade group of outsiders when the boss of the company is your leader. That's what people don't get enough about the NWO. They were heels to me because they were fraudulent anti authority guys who were really just as much a part of management as anyone. They were bogus anti establishment types.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 21, 2017 0:33:54 GMT -5
I'm looking at the list of when wrestlers joined the NWO, and by the timeline I'm going to say Dusty Rhodes in January of 98. Before that it was guys who I felt had a (at least) sellable reason to be a part of the "tear the old structure down and build a new company" vibe that the NWO had, even Traylor and Rotunda (being treated as one-note characters in the WWF and WCW).
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Post by sportatorium on Dec 21, 2017 2:23:16 GMT -5
Bagwell for me. They made as much lemonade from him as they could as a heel, but he was the first one that made me pause and wonder which random guy would end up there on the next show.
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Post by héad.casé on Dec 21, 2017 5:03:47 GMT -5
A couple of people have said Giant - but I seem to remember him doing a promo the night he joined saying that Hogan promised him movie roles, that he would be the next big thing in Hollywood, so to me that made sense that a young guy would take him for his word and join them.
For me though it was Bischoff. It made sense for DiBiase to join, they put him over as the nWo's financial backer at first. Then when Bischoff joined, it was like he took Ted's role and there was no point to DiBiase being in the group. It was like "ok Ted's supplying the money but Eric's the actual boss".
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Dec 21, 2017 7:57:07 GMT -5
These dudes:
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Dec 21, 2017 8:26:29 GMT -5
Kyle Perry. nWo race care driver.
Yeah....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 8:50:29 GMT -5
I want to say Virgil/Vincent, but him joining made some sense. He was an outsider and can be used as a comedy/jobber of the group.
I'd say Dusty Rhodes. He was in the NWA/WCW from the beginning and threw it all the way because TRADITION BABAY!!
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Post by agent817 on Dec 21, 2017 13:20:11 GMT -5
Kyle Perry. nWo race care driver. Yeah.... Petty, and I agree. I know that there was that pretaped promo with Kyle Petty hanging out with Hogan, DiBiase, Hall, Nash, Nasty Nick (Man, Hogan even had his own son as an honorary member, I'm surprised he didn't have Brooke as an honorary member), and even the Nasty Boys. That was just bizarre. Was that his only appearance?
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 21, 2017 16:29:44 GMT -5
By the time I got back into wrestling the nWo was mostly just a bunch of "this guy"s
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Dec 21, 2017 18:24:57 GMT -5
These dudes: I will not stand for any nWokra or Macho Gazpacho slander.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Dec 21, 2017 18:29:23 GMT -5
That goofy nonsense happened on one of the last Clash of The Champions, did it not?
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 21, 2017 18:39:32 GMT -5
My answer: The non-Rodman celebrities. I could understand the NWO adding some punching bags to their roster, and most of them made *some* sort of sense (the WWF connection or old Hogan buddies, etc), but they lost their "cool" factor to me when they recruited the Dinner and a Movie guy and the star of Teenage Caveman 40 years after Teenage Caveman was in theaters. Holy shit, yeah, you just reminded me of that cringey "Dinner and A Movie" segment where they "defected". So....yeah, your lucky day, Crush, you are redeemed. I'm sure, somewhere in the afterlife, he did a fistpump.
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Post by No Longer a Produceman on Dec 21, 2017 20:25:29 GMT -5
Giant. He didn’t last long initially and seemed like he joined only because he didn’t want to get his ass kicked by the nWo anymore.
If I’m the nWo and I’m stealing someone from the Dungeon of Doom you can bet your ass I’m taking Meng.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 21, 2017 20:31:39 GMT -5
As much of a legend as he is, it was Muta.
So, Masahiro Chono turns on Sonny Onoo to join the nWo.
Shortly thereafter, Onoo brings in Muta to put Chono in his place.
Muta instantly turns on Onoo and joins the nWo too.
Bluh.
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Post by evilhomer on Dec 22, 2017 0:46:19 GMT -5
I have to say Ted Dibiase. Million dollar man, check. Despised heel, check. One of my all-time favorites, check. But he wasn't the "cool" the nwo supposedly represented. Dibiase at least made sense with the WWF connection and kayfabe money being his gimmick. The answer for me was always the Giant. He was boring as hell and did not fit in with the group. Dibiase and Syxx were good adds. The Giant always felt “WTF?” to me. The Giant's initial entry made perfect sense. He was a monster that posed a threat to their domination. They brought him in to strengthen the group and weaken their enemies. For me, that was really a moment when it was "wow, these guys really are taking over" I can't pinpoint the exact entry that turned the angle for me, I'll say Stevie Ray because the first thing that popped into my head was an image of him looking all tough and intimidating, and the only thing I could think was "these guys are a joke now". But overall, it was just the continuous flow of guys coming in that did it for me. Sting was just wrong, no matter how they tried to spin the new and cooler version of the nWo. Jarrett was a final nail in the coffin, it was not the nWo by that point.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 22, 2017 0:57:43 GMT -5
Looking at the angle purely in hindsight, as I got into wrestling shortly after the nWo Elite fizzled in 1999, it's really Dusty that strikes me as a superfluous addition. Everyone else could be argued that they served a purpose, even if it was as a foot solider that could add to the nWo's numbers game, or someone that could take a beating in lieu of Hogan or Nash. Dusty turned heel because they wanted to do a swerve, and I don't think anyone could possible remember a single thing he did as a member of the group.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 22, 2017 1:15:34 GMT -5
Looking at the angle purely in hindsight, as I got into wrestling shortly after the nWo Elite fizzled in 1999, it's really Dusty that strikes me as a superfluous addition. Everyone else could be argued that they served a purpose, even if it was as a foot solider that could add to the nWo's numbers game, or someone that could take a beating in lieu of Hogan or Nash. Dusty turned heel because they wanted to do a swerve, and I don't think anyone could possible remember a single thing he did as a member of the group. Honestly, I still have no memory of him in the group. And I watched every show back then. The first time I read something about him being a member, I was actually thinking that the author didn't know what he was talking about.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2017 10:42:29 GMT -5
Hogan. *sits back*
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Post by chronocross on Dec 22, 2017 11:21:33 GMT -5
I didn't mind some B-Squad guys like Vincent as you need some cronies to take the hit every now and then, I just don't know what the purpose was with Dusty joining as he was not a in-ring competitor so no one was ever going to get payback on him.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 22, 2017 11:35:41 GMT -5
I didn't watch a lot of WCW back in the NWO days, most of that viewing has been more recent.
HOWEVER, one memory is firmly burned into my mind. I clearly recall flipping the channels and seeing Jeff Jarrett in an NWO shirt and thinking "the NWO is scraping the bottom of the barrel"
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