Who Did You Personally Enjoy More In 1997: Hart's or nWo?

[The Rick Jericho]

This is from your point of view. Not who was better or drew better ratings. We all know that already.

But during 1997, which stable did you enjoy more and find more exciting personally speaking?

[DiBiase is Good]

As we didn’t get WCW shows here in the UK (other than Nitro) we couldn’t watch the PPVs. So by default, The Harts get my vote.

[Limity (BLM)]

While the nWo may have been more exciting, I was more personally invested in the Hart storyline, having grown up with him.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

The 1997 Hart Foundation is literally four of my all time favorite wrestlers.....and Jim Neidhart. How could I not vote for them here?

[chronocross]

I was more of an nWo fan at that point, not that I didn't enjoy the Harts.

[The Rick Jericho]

The crowds were rabid the summer of 1997. One week they are in Halifax Canada and get cheered like heroes. Next week the are booed in San Antonio as hot heels.

The crowds were fantastic in the summer of 97 in the WWF.

[Hit Girl]

The Harts, easily.

[mizerable]

Bret was hit and miss in 1997.

The nWo wasn't entirely perfect either, but I bought the hype.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Jan 6, 2018 19:38:08 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

The crowds were rabid the summer of 1997. One week they are in Halifax Canada and get cheered like heroes. Next week the are booed in San Antonio as hot heels.

The crowds were fantastic in the summer of 97 in the WWF.

Whoever made the decision of having a couple of Raw episodes booked for Canadian cities in July deserves praise.

[Jiren]

Harts

[OGBoardPoster2005]

The Harts were more entertaining. Got a lot of heat and put on better matches. I wish they had lasted longer, and watching DX topple them was annoying, would have preferred Austin bringing both down, but would also have liked to see Triple H, Michaels, and maybe the Outlaws vs The Harts at Survivor Series.

[jimwilliams]

I grew up on Jim Crocket NWA and wcw, and loved it but the NWO is what started me becoming more of a WWF fan. It could’ve been a lot better, if the booking had allowed the NWO to lose every once in awhile, but it hardly ever happened. On the other hand “The Hart’s” were always booked as being competent without being indestructible..... Plus Virgil-Vincent was never included in the Hart’s so instant win.

[Deleted]

I was a 9 year old unsullied by the IWC. I hated them both.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

The Harts.

By '97 the nWo had watered itself down with the addition of Vincent, Bagwell, Wallstreet, Bubba, Norton, and a few others who really didn't add much value to me in '97.

In comparison, the Hart Foundation was my favourite two wrestlers at the time (Bret and Owen), a couple of sentimental favourites (Davey and Neidhart), and one of the most compelling heels of the mid-'90s (Pillman), and all were bringing it every night.

[segaz]

Hmm.....very tough. I would say probably the harts at the time as i watched only wwe back then. However i can't deny that i found out about nitro on tnt here in the uk towards the end of 1997 and was 100% hooked. Also they always were on the losing end against DX by that point, and i wasn't entertained by that. Finally hart foundation was only 7 months, but the nwo had the whole year.

So not as cut and dry as I first thought. Looking back, i think I actually prefer the nwo on 97, but I love the hart foundation so I might be a bit biased.

[The 1Watcher Experience]

The NWO was red hot in 1996. I was all in at the time. It was getting stale by 1997. That NWO Souled Out PPV that January took the cool factor out of them quicker than Vince took it out of ECW with his Sci-Fi channel version. The Hart Foundation was amazing. Bret was doing solid promo work week after week. Unlike the NWO, the Hart Foundation could go in the ring and have great matches too. The crowds were on fire back then. They would be booed in the US and cheered in Canada. That energy was awesome. It was so much fun. I honestly feel they were the reason the tide started to turn for the WWF. The Hart Foundation was consistently providing quality entertainment week after week.

Whenever the attitude era comes up, people reminisce about Austin and DX. They were definitely on the way up, but it was the Hart Foundation that got really them over and made them legit. You needed stars to make stars back then. Hogan wouldn’t have been as over if he didn’t have the Iron Sheik, Roddy Piper or Andre the Giant. The Hart Foundation deserves more credit than they get for shaping the attitude era.

[Pushed to the Moon]

I think I thought the nWo were cooler but the Harts made me want to buy a leather jacket. They were clearly the fashionista choice.

[Hit Girl]

The NWO were two dimensional. Just a generic "we want to take over" storyline. When they did take over, we got shit like Souled Out. The Harts were more layered. Bret's points about America and his disdain for why people were cheering for people like Austin and DX weren't necessarily without merit, and it created an awesome scenario where he was booed in America but cheered elsewhere. The fact it led to such a shocking end at Montreal, which then triggered a new golden era for WWE made it all the greater.

[fw91]

I liked DX better than both of them.

[thegame415]

nWo by far. I think the Hart saga is looked upon now as being better than it was perceived at the time.

Austin and Shawn made the Hart’s much more enjoyable.