Jim Cornette Reviews Who Killed WCW? Episode Two 

Give it 5 years & we will have the next VICE Documentary : Who Killed AEW? Tony and Bucks will still blame it's all Punk.

Bret was never going to be used correctly as long as Hogan had Biscoff’s ear.

I think it's hilarious that Goldberg is tired of Brett whining about him ending his career, while Goldberg is still whining about Regal embarrassing him.

Bischoff glazes Hogan so much. Even to this day. It's hilarious. Find yourself a friend who loves you as much as Bischoff loves Hogan.

I can't wait to hear Jim's reaction to Goldberg calling Russo "shitstain".

“A stiff phenomenon made of potatoes” 🤣🤣🤣

JJ Dillon once said years ago, "Problem with Eric suffers from Selective Memory loss"

This episode of Vice probably drew double of what AEW drew this past wednesday.

I do like Kevin Nash but hearing him explain "The Finger Poke of Doom" comes across as "It was a good idea. The fans just didn't like it."

Starrcade 97 should have been the biggest pay per view in history. Bottom line is Eric had his head to far up Hogans ass to run the company right. All the big screw ups involved Hogan 1. Starrcade 97 2. Fingerpoke of Doom 3. Bash at the Beach 2000 4. Hogans Creative control 5. Hogan putting himself in main event in Georgiadome

Bret Hart was the hottest wrestler in the world when he signed with WCW. Their mishandling of him was incredible.

I love how every ten minutes there is a random cut and I hear “I fucking hate wcw, Bischoff, and Bill Goldberg” and I laugh because I know Bret is about to complain for a minute straight 😂 I love bret

I have figured out Bischoff. If it was a great ideal and he came up with it or was involved then he has perfect memory. If it was a bad one, then he can't quite recall.

Kevin Nash was insanely over back then. Not as over as Goldberg (nobody was), but he was right up there with DDP, Sting, etc. at the time. The funny thing is, the finger poke of doom completely derailed his own momentum as well. That whole situation worked out for one person and one person only. Guess who that was, brother?

I would watch the first hour of Nitro at 8, switch to Raw from 9-11 and then watch the rerun of Nitro from 11-until I passed out. I miss those days

Does anyone else think Goldberg was essentially the ultimate warrior dressed up like stone cold

Russo "it wasnt me bro"😂

“A stiff phenomenon made out of potatoes” is my new favorite Cornette line lol

The biggest blindspot Eric Bishoff has in being honest about WCW's death is Hulk Hogan's role in it. It's no wonder Hogan won't participate in these things, Eric's there to spin his narrative for him.

Hogan saved WCW but in the end he killed the damn thing. It was Me BROTHER it was Me all along Brother Dude Jack.😂😂😂

Kevin Nash only ever cared about money, not the fans. And thats why he'll go down in history as always being a part of something, but never being anything.

Goldberg calling Russo Shitstain was the moment i spit my Sprite out....😂😂

Bret has every right to be mad still about that kick. On slo-mo it looked brutal.

Goldberg blames Vince "shitstain" Russo was really responsible for WCW's quick death.

Find someone who hates you as much as Bret Hart hates WCW.

Joe Henry outdrew the entire AEW lockeroom. God that's fucking embarrassing

Kills me when people say "You can't have a babyface champion, he has to chase." Uh huh so Bruno, Pedro, Backlund, Hogan, Savage, Warrior, Bret, Austin? Fuck it, Bruno, Hogan, Austin. What fucking championship chase drew more god damn money than those 3?

Brett bringing the word “imbecile” back into modern communication was the best thing from this series.

Booker T was pissed off after this.

I will give a nod to these guys for not capitulating to the trend of doing zoom vids like the rest of these podcasts. Seeing people smoking, chewing pencils, rocking in their chairs, watching their dogs and cats, etc. etc. is not necessary.

I wonder how many TVs Jim broke while watching episode 3, with Shitstain on the whole episode. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂

Thing is, WCW Nitro didn't feel like 3 hours, Raw feels like 9 now. 😉

Even if it were true that Goldberg was flopping as a champion, why would the solution to that problem be going back to Nash and Hogan, two of the reasons why you needed a Goldberg to begin with? That's like going back to Ultimate Warrior if Steve Austin was starting to fail.

Wonder if the latest episode of Dynamite drew less viewers than Kevin Nash using every excuse imaginable to justify Starrcade 98 and The Fingerpoke of Doom.

Finger poke of Doom + Spoiling Raw was the show that for me took WCW from must see to checking it out only when certain people were wrestling. Killed it for me.

Oh Bret 😂 can you blame him for being how he is ? He went through so much during that time .. Owen died months before his career unexpectedly ending . Not even mentioning Davey & his parents with a stroke in between those years .

On this weeks, Who Killed AEW?

Bret has every right to still be pissed. Imagine if some asshole kicked you in the head like that, you’d remember

Goldberg needs to stop whining about the Regal match himself

Can't wait for the commentary on Shytstains "I'm better than 80% of the WCW Roster" 😆🤣🤦‍♂️

Thanks, Corny. Thanks Brett. Bischoff not taking responsibility is pretty on brand. 🔥

I can't wait for Jim to cover the next episode. Especially his reaction to Russo saying he was better as an on-air character than 80% of the locker room there.

WCW should’ve just booked an injury angle after Goldberg won the title. The NWO injure Goldberg and he vacates the title. Hogan gets it back while Goldberg trains off-air for six months to a year. Goldberg returns and regains the title. Then build a program between a properly trained Goldberg against Bret Hart. The finish is that Bret Hart ends Goldberg’s streak.

It’s amazing to witness everyone in the documentary throw each other under the bus

I would be interested to hear Bischoff talk about WCW after Hulk Hogan is dead.

What I'm mostly learning from this series is that nothing in discussions of wrestling history makes me angrier than hearing people talking about the company when it was called the WWF but calling it "WWE."

Looking at the dysfunction inside Turner and WCW, it's a miracle it lasted as long as it did.

I never had an issue with putting hogan vs goldberg on tv; I just didn't get why goldberg didn't just win by DQ & also get a PPV payoff

Jim+Brian >>>>>>> Eric+Conrad

They announced the Goldberg/Hogan match on the Thunder before, so they had four days to promote it.

Without Hogan going to WCW, Eric has no career. That single move is what made any of his success in WCW possible. He will be loyal forever for that I'm sure.

Patiently waiting for the AEW ratings video to drop…

Having Bret Hart the Leonardo Da Vinci of Wrestling and don't knowing what to do with him is ridiculous.....

Wanna see if he caught Punk mimicking JC lol.

Goldberg also botched the figure four with Brett on the turnbuckle.

Jim Herd, Hulk Hogan, Turner Execs, and then Russo driving the last nail. There. That's who killed WcW.

Maybe next year Jim will review Who Killed AEW? We’ve reached the 500K viewers era…

What killed WCW They gave Booker T the title way too late. Booker should've beat Goldberg

Can’t wait till he hears the dumb shit Russo said.🙈

Someone should ask Nash to explain the contradiction of his buddy Hogan getting to run with the belt (whether face or heel), but “the money” is always in “the chase”. (And before someone says “it was different in the 80s”, I’ll say yeah, in the early 2000s when Hogan got another run with the WWF title as a face, it was a different decade than the 80s. So apparently, “it’s all about the face chasing the heel” unless it’s Hogan cuz he gets a pass on this topic from Nash and some others.

Of course Nash is going to say the money is the babyface chasing the title. Of course you’re going to say that when you book yourself as the heel on top with the title🤦‍♂️

“NO BILL..Its not an accident,its a career ending injury,you idiot!” “Then I somehow wield myself up for this imbecile to run through me” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 God I love Bret

At the time when they aired Goldberg vs Hogan on Nitro for free, they were so desperate to get one over in the ratings against Raw. It just goes to show that WCW didn't have any structure or long-term planning, that it was just one big mess. Look at Bret Hart. I remember following both companies at the time and thinking how insignificant Bret Hart felt like during his tenure there. He became a nameless mid-carder.

So Cornette has never actually seen Russo-era WCW before? Wouldn't it be hilarious if after watching the next episode Cornette was all "wow, I don't know what people were complaining about, that was amazing. I owe Vince Russo a big apology!"?

“Watch out for the kick” should be a t-shirt😆

Watched episode 3 with my mom and she says to me “I understand why Cornette hates Russo so much”😂😂

Can’t wait for Jim to react to Jacob fatu’s arrival. Could we see corny in the fed in the big 2024????

I see Starrcade '97 as the beginning of the end. The first big crack in the armor, that started the snowball rolling. Eric having no plan to end the nWo storyline, instead expanding the nWo & putting nearly every big star in the company in it, expanding Nitro to 3 hours every week, the complete misfiring on Bret Hart. All those things add up to Raw catching & surpassing Nitro by the summer of '98. It was a slow death for WCW & the fingerpoke just sped up the time of death....

I popped when Goldberg called Russo 'Shitstain".

This week’s Dynamite - 502k 😂😂😂

I don't know who killed WCW...but I know who's killing AEW Tony Khan

Hart being described as “The Picasso of wrestling” is so perfect. He took his matches and his wrestling legacy more serious than money or fame. And like most great artists, maybe takes their own work a bit too seriously. But that’s how you get to be great without ever hurting anyone.

I Thought They'd Show TheLordStevenRegal "Match" Against GoldBerg. (Where Regal Exposed TheKayFabe)

Dude Kevin Nash is such a DOUCHE like i had to pause and take a breather every time he spoke...also goldberg admitting he couldnt wrestle and didnt know what to do in the ring WITH THE BELT but crying that they could of kept the belt on him cause "he never got tired of seeing tyson beat up dudes" YEA CAUSE TYSON CAN ACTUALLY FIGHT. Like Godly man, and of couse the #1 reason Hulk Hogan after goin on his world lying tour didnt have the time to do ANY episode

I think of the 'Kurt Angle' litmus test. The only person I can't picture Kurt working with is Goldberg, and Kurt worked with everyone from Undertaker, Cena, Rey, Brock, Batista, The Rock, HBK, Krispin Wah, Randy Orton Mark Henry etc.

TBS cancelled Main Event and The Pro to make way for Thunder, so it actually didn't add any hours of wrestling to Turner.

Damnit, what I get out of this is Bret's career being ruined by almost everyone in WCW being an idiot. 😟

I just can't wait for Jim to review episode 3.

The thing that bothers me to this day about the Goldberg/Hogan match they gave away for free on Nitro instead of doing on a PPV is that they could have done both. You do the Goldberg/Hogan match on Nitro still, but you do it as an exhibition match, keep it short, and when it looks like Goldberg is about to hit his finish, the rest of the NWO jump in to attack Goldberg like a heel stable is supposed to. That leads to the bell ringing, Goldberg getting DQ win, and when it looks like the NWO is starting to beat him down, he goes berserk and cleans house spearing everybody while Hogan is making a break for the ramp. And before Hogan can get away, whoever the face authority figure is at the time (I can't remember atm) comes out, stops Hogan, and announces Hogan will be facing Goldberg in the main event of the next WCW ppv for the title and not only will it be a no DQ match but the NWO will be barred from ringside. And the episode goes off the air with Hogan turning back to the ring, the camera cutting to Goldberg standing in the middle of the wreckage if the NWO leaning over the ropes to point at Hogan and yelling, "YOU'RE NEXT!" Then you basically do the Nitro match we ended up getting in real life at the ppv. And that's how you blow off the nwo angle after botching the job at starcade with sting (because you still have to make up for that).

Say what ever you want about Vince Mchmahon's PERSONAL issues now but he was the CAPTAIN of the ship of WWF. WCW was run by a board room. THAT is what killed WCW

Who Killed WCW is an absolute shitshow of liars and narcissists lying their asses off trying to avoid and assign blame for killing the company, with a sprinkling of brief moments of Bret absolutely shitting on everyone involved. Currently my favorite show on TV.

What gets me Rock talking like he ran WWE at time

The shoot interview with Bobby heenan really summarizes everything. Eric bishoff was a used car salesman who just happens to be in wrestling. WCW started falling apart when Goldberg lost. In a stupid way on his birthday. They had no plans for him or anyone there. People were making $500,000 who had no business getting paid that

Sour Diesel Kevin Nash

Can’t wait for his episode three Russo rant

I can’t wait for Jim’s reaction to Jacob’s debut😁

“At least the WWF lewdness made sense.” Mark Henry, Mae Young, and their son “The Hand” would like a word….

I feel like Bret has just had the worst luck in life, but he keeps overcoming adversity, after adversity. He's a real champion.

3 Billboards OutSide of Stamford Connecticut.😜 (That Could Still Work Today!)

Kevin Nash killed WCW imo. He was a pos.

Bret Hart: nobody told me that he did this move where he kicks a guy in the head as hard as he possibly can… I died 😂☠️

The chase is a tried and true method for story investment. Also, the dangers of being hunted and the superhero conquering "monsters" is pretty fun to watch, too.

You know its a Bischoff PR win when Hogan isn’t blamed in the show either

6:30 Jim is forgetting that Thunder was a taped show and nitro was live... I remember Kevin Nash talking about this situation, you know how hard it is to tape a show prior to the live show and still have continuity for the live show that might change because it's live?!

Cornette doing a Barnett voice over for Brad Segal is a chef’s kiss lol

Apparently Nash was stoned out of his mind when they interviewed him lol.

Fingerpoke of Doom killing wcw is the biggest falsehood ever. The episode after fod still drew a 5.0 rating, a bigger rating than any periods in peak wcw 97-98. In Bischoff last nitro in Sept 99, before he was sacked, he was still drawing 4.1 rating against wwf 4.4. When Wwf was losing they were drawing 1.8 with Brett hart and friends but nobody talks about that. The big difference is Wwf has the support of USA network unlike wcw's AOL network and executives.

Kimberly Page 😍 😍 😍

Hulk Hogan in WWE disproved the "Babyface goes after heel champion" rule.

So looking at the artist rendering, I didn't realize one of the people who were responsible for the demise of WCW was the love child of Bret Hart and Marty Jannetty