Question about Easy E and the NWO.

[MNM's Official "Fixer"]

On the night he joined the NWO did he cut a promo or do anything to give away him joining the NWO? Or did he just show up with them. If anyone has a clip or can explain what happened to me it would be helpful. I know he was powerbombed thru a table but him joining the NWO happened months later.

[JIMBOB]

This Nitro just recently aired on WWE 24/7. That night, Roddy Piper was questioning him about the match he wanted with Hogan. Bischoff lied about talking with Hogan. The nWo show up, beat down Piper, Bischoff hugs Hogan. Thats basically it.

[MNM's Official "Fixer"]

^ Thanks, i know i started watching it on WWE 24\7 but i didn't get to finish it.

[Johnny Q Public]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzVYAmPQiZs

This guy has some awesome vids.

[Hiroshi Hase]

It was building over months of time, and they dropped subtle hints along the way that Bischoff was turning NWO.

First, the night of Bash at the Beach 96, he's missing and doesn't do the pregame show with Dusty, shows up the next night on Nitro with no explanation about his whereabouts when Hogan turned.

Then on the August 5,1996 Nitro, Bisch is missing again and doesn't do hour 2 of Nitro with Heenan as everyone wonders what the hell is going on, and if he's been attacked or kidnapped.

8/12/96-Heenan asks Bischoff straight up where he was last Monday and Bisch says he doesn't want to talk about it.

Early September, Bischoff agrees to the stipulations at War Games that if the NWO wins, WCW pays the "bills" and they get their own segments on WCW Saturday Night, entitled "NWO Saturday Night" (which is gold, BTW). NWO wins and on Nitro the next night Tenay and Heenan ask why would Bischoff agree to such terms and more speculation abounds.

9/23/96 Nitro-all of the WCW guys are in Japan except for Savage, they jump him and beat him down, and take over the rest of the broadcast, holding Bischoff at the announce position against his will, or at least it looked that way.

9/30/96 Nitro-Bischoff starts out Nitro with an angry anti-NWO promo and says he has to "take care of business", leaving Schiavone and Heenan to announce for the night as they wonder what he means.

10/14/96-Savage heads to the ring for his match with Mike Enos when Bischoff stops in the aisle way and says that he must show Savage footage that is urgent, it's Elizabeth crying and saying she still has feelings for Macho. Savage loses his composure to the point of near-tears as he leaves the arena. Heenan/Tenay wonder why in the hell would you show Savage that footage so close to Havoc and his World Title match with Hogan?

10/21/96-Savage heads to the ring to face Chris Benoit, but is dressed in street clothes and Bisch stops him again, with some more footage of what is really going on, it's Hogan on the set of the 3 Ninjas movie holding Elizabeth against her will in a movie trailer and to "make Savage believe". Savage sounds like he's on the verge of murder as he leaves with the words "Life is fragile".

10/28/96-Footage is shown of Piper's debut at Halloween Havoc, and Bischoff says he's committed to trying to get Piper to sign a contract with WCW.

11/4/96-Bischoff supposedly took a trip to Portland to get the match signed with Hogan and Piper, as he wasn't on that Nitro, as negotiations were close or were they?

11/11/96-Bischoff says things don't look too well, but a video was sent to the production offices at WCW of Piper singing and in the background the marquee said "hogan vs. Piper", which gave the impression that things were looking up in terms of getting Piper to WCW.

11/18/96-Bischoff addresses the fans and says he's doing everything in his power to get Piper into WCW, and is interrupted by the man himself Piper, as he looks nervous as hell and is called on his B.S, before Piper could ring his neck, the nWo fill the ring and all chaos breaks loose as Bischoff is revealed as the latest member of the nWo.

I think there might be some little things I may have forgotten, but that seems like the jist of it.

[JIMBOB]

Wow, I knew there were a few hints of Bischoff joining, but not that many. That's good booking right there.

[Milkman Norm]

A reminder of how awesome the early nWo angle was

[MNM's Official "Fixer"]

The NWO was great until everbody and theere mother joined the group. Not to mention the seprate NWO stables (NWO Silver, NWO Wolfpac, or the even weirder half red/half black NWO)

[WWHHHD]

There was the limo where sting opens the door and a Turner dufflebag is thrown out at him which would indicate the possibility of Easy E.

[Citizen Snips]

For the person who posted all the clues...THANK YOU. That Macho Man "Life is fragile" thing took me back to when he was dropping ring bells on people's throats instead of hawking beef jerky.

[willywonka666]

yjc1019 said:

It was building over months of time, and they dropped subtle hints along the way that Bischoff was turning NWO.

First, the night of Bash at the Beach 96, he's missing and doesn't do the pregame show with Dusty, shows up the next night on Nitro with no explanation about his whereabouts when Hogan turned.

Then on the August 5,1996 Nitro, Bisch is missing again and doesn't do hour 2 of Nitro with Heenan as everyone wonders what the hell is going on, and if he's been attacked or kidnapped.

8/12/96-Heenan asks Bischoff straight up where he was last Monday and Bisch says he doesn't want to talk about it.

Early September, Bischoff agrees to the stipulations at War Games that if the NWO wins, WCW pays the "bills" and they get their own segments on WCW Saturday Night, entitled "NWO Saturday Night" (which is gold, BTW). NWO wins and on Nitro the next night Tenay and Heenan ask why would Bischoff agree to such terms and more speculation abounds.

9/23/96 Nitro-all of the WCW guys are in Japan except for Savage, they jump him and beat him down, and take over the rest of the broadcast, holding Bischoff at the announce position against his will, or at least it looked that way.

9/30/96 Nitro-Bischoff starts out Nitro with an angry anti-NWO promo and says he has to "take care of business", leaving Schiavone and Heenan to announce for the night as they wonder what he means.

10/14/96-Savage heads to the ring for his match with Mike Enos when Bischoff stops in the aisle way and says that he must show Savage footage that is urgent, it's Elizabeth crying and saying she still has feelings for Macho. Savage loses his composure to the point of near-tears as he leaves the arena. Heenan/Tenay wonder why in the hell would you show Savage that footage so close to Havoc and his World Title match with Hogan?

10/21/96-Savage heads to the ring to face Chris Benoit, but is dressed in street clothes and Bisch stops him again, with some more footage of what is really going on, it's Hogan on the set of the 3 Ninjas movie holding Elizabeth against her will in a movie trailer and to "make Savage believe". Savage sounds like he's on the verge of murder as he leaves with the words "Life is fragile".

10/28/96-Footage is shown of Piper's debut at Halloween Havoc, and Bischoff says he's committed to trying to get Piper to sign a contract with WCW.

11/4/96-Bischoff supposedly took a trip to Portland to get the match signed with Hogan and Piper, as he wasn't on that Nitro, as negotiations were close or were they?

11/11/96-Bischoff says things don't look too well, but a video was sent to the production offices at WCW of Piper singing and in the background the marquee said "hogan vs. Piper", which gave the impression that things were looking up in terms of getting Piper to WCW.

11/18/96-Bischoff addresses the fans and says he's doing everything in his power to get Piper into WCW, and is interrupted by the man himself Piper, as he looks nervous as hell and is called on his B.S, before Piper could ring his neck, the nWo fill the ring and all chaos breaks loose as Bischoff is revealed as the latest member of the nWo.

I think there might be some little things I may have forgotten, but that seems like the jist of it.

Wow-I didn't realize there were any hints, I was really shocked that night- and really pissed

[Hiroshi Hase]

willywonka666 said:

yjc1019 said:

It was building over months of time, and they dropped subtle hints along the way that Bischoff was turning NWO.

First, the night of Bash at the Beach 96, he's missing and doesn't do the pregame show with Dusty, shows up the next night on Nitro with no explanation about his whereabouts when Hogan turned.

Then on the August 5,1996 Nitro, Bisch is missing again and doesn't do hour 2 of Nitro with Heenan as everyone wonders what the hell is going on, and if he's been attacked or kidnapped.

8/12/96-Heenan asks Bischoff straight up where he was last Monday and Bisch says he doesn't want to talk about it.

Early September, Bischoff agrees to the stipulations at War Games that if the NWO wins, WCW pays the "bills" and they get their own segments on WCW Saturday Night, entitled "NWO Saturday Night" (which is gold, BTW). NWO wins and on Nitro the next night Tenay and Heenan ask why would Bischoff agree to such terms and more speculation abounds.

9/23/96 Nitro-all of the WCW guys are in Japan except for Savage, they jump him and beat him down, and take over the rest of the broadcast, holding Bischoff at the announce position against his will, or at least it looked that way.

9/30/96 Nitro-Bischoff starts out Nitro with an angry anti-NWO promo and says he has to "take care of business", leaving Schiavone and Heenan to announce for the night as they wonder what he means.

10/14/96-Savage heads to the ring for his match with Mike Enos when Bischoff stops in the aisle way and says that he must show Savage footage that is urgent, it's Elizabeth crying and saying she still has feelings for Macho. Savage loses his composure to the point of near-tears as he leaves the arena. Heenan/Tenay wonder why in the hell would you show Savage that footage so close to Havoc and his World Title match with Hogan?

10/21/96-Savage heads to the ring to face Chris Benoit, but is dressed in street clothes and Bisch stops him again, with some more footage of what is really going on, it's Hogan on the set of the 3 Ninjas movie holding Elizabeth against her will in a movie trailer and to "make Savage believe". Savage sounds like he's on the verge of murder as he leaves with the words "Life is fragile".

10/28/96-Footage is shown of Piper's debut at Halloween Havoc, and Bischoff says he's committed to trying to get Piper to sign a contract with WCW.

11/4/96-Bischoff supposedly took a trip to Portland to get the match signed with Hogan and Piper, as he wasn't on that Nitro, as negotiations were close or were they?

11/11/96-Bischoff says things don't look too well, but a video was sent to the production offices at WCW of Piper singing and in the background the marquee said "hogan vs. Piper", which gave the impression that things were looking up in terms of getting Piper to WCW.

11/18/96-Bischoff addresses the fans and says he's doing everything in his power to get Piper into WCW, and is interrupted by the man himself Piper, as he looks nervous as hell and is called on his B.S, before Piper could ring his neck, the nWo fill the ring and all chaos breaks loose as Bischoff is revealed as the latest member of the nWo.

I think there might be some little things I may have forgotten, but that seems like the jist of it.

Wow-I didn't realize there were any hints, I was really shocked that night- and really pissed

Don't get me wrong, I didn't get the hints till I watched WCW Saturday Night that same weekend as Dusty and Schiavone chronicled everything as they said all those events with Bisch no-showing and leaving make sense after he joined.

That was an awesome turn, and he makes one helluva heel, probably the best heel personality I've seen that isn't a wrestler/manager.

[Milkman Norm]

I acutally think that while the turn was awesome the end result was one of the things that lead to the nWo becoming worn out and lame. In it's early days the suspence was in the idea that the nWo was invading WCW and all ready might have "agents" in the WCW operation. So week after week people watched nitro in droves and each week more and more WCW wrestlers reveled themselves to be nWo. But they were still outsiders, still seemingly seperate from WCW, comitting acts of gurrella war. The lines of battle hadn't been drawn. But when Bischoff revealed himself to be nWo it changed the storyline from a group of heels terrorizing the establishment to a group of heels that had controll over their competition. Meaning that the invasion was over and that nWo had one without a fight. So then there was nothing left to do but wait for the faces in WCW to return and reclaim their company. But since that didn't happen until December of 97 that meant that there was about 13 months of angles and matches with screw finishes. Luckly at the time the angle was so hot and for the first 8 or so months the angles were much, much better than anything WWF was doing but I think that the seed of the failings of the nWo story were planted when Easy E turned.

[eDemento2099]

Easy E? Are we talking about the deceased NWA rapper?

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

That Nitro after Hogan turned was one of the best shows I've ever seen.

[Deadman Inc. Misses Shawn]

I thought we were talking about Eazy E(RIP) the rapper

[Dr. Marzvon Zombie M.D.]

randymulkey said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzVYAmPQiZs

This guy has some awesome vids.

GREAT GREAT, FIND!!!

[Hiroshi Hase]

deadman2004 said:

I thought we were talking about Eazy E(RIP) the rapper

I'm sure at first glance when you read the title, maybe, but it's not. Easy E was also a nickname given to Bischoff by Hall/Nash sometime in 97.

[gabou142]

I don't think Eazy-E the rapper (RIP) was a member of the nWo...but in 1998, just about everybody and their mother were members, so maybe he was made a honorary member since he had already passed away..who know with WCW!!

[eDemento2099]

gabou142 said:

I don't think Eazy-E the rapper (RIP) was a member of the nWo...but in 1998, just about everybody and their mother were members, so maybe he was made a honorary member since he had already passed away..who know with WCW!!

NWA meets the nWo