Absolutely!! I was only in third-fifth grade during this time. NWO set off the world! All the way to the playground in northwestern Montana. WWF DX didn’t help either. Good times.
Most horrible guy, period. He did most of the booking and screwed most guys. What did you have in mind, break his streak ,when you guys stung Goldberg with the cattleprod and fingerpoked the guy. Expecting him to run all over you'll??
What a time. I was a kid during this and every guy at school was rocking an nWo shirt or Austin 3:16. Couldn’t wait for tuesday at recess to talk what happened on raw and nitro. So happy I grew up watching this as it happened.
That was the best time to be a wrestling fan. So many wild things happening that we’d never seen. The NWO set off the wrestling boom of the late 90’s with that leg drop from Hogan. You think Taker losing at Mania was shocking, that one moment changed the whole entire wrestling business. It’s why Hogan is the GOAT…. He set off both wrestling booms, one as a babyface in the 80’s and the last one as a heel in the 90’s.
I still think Sting vs the nWo was the greatest wrestling storyline EVER. Yes even better than Austin vs McMahon. Sting had to walk the dark path to be able to defeat Hogan and nWo. Unfortunately the payoff at Starrade 97 sucked, but the nearly 1.5 year buildup was spectacular.
Nitro was the goat wrestling show she created the live TV format for the genre. Till this day wrestling is trying to recreate the feeling of a 96-97 Nitro. Lighting in a bottle.
Getting off the roids will do that for ya. If you follow the timeline of when he got smaller it was after the steroid dibacle in the early to mid-1990s. You look at him in 1993 his mass is still like it was in the 1980s, but by 1996 when he was in WCW he was pure lean muscle and had lost quite a bit of mass. That's the roids effect. I have to say though around 1997 I was at Toys R Us with my family picking out stuff for Christmas in Clearwater Florida where I grew up, and him, the Giant, Macho Man, and one another I didn't know, came in and cameras were following them and they bought thousands of dollars of toys to go to some fundraising event. He walked right by me and honestly to this day I have never seen a man his height that muscular ever. He really was a sight to behold that the TV just cannot translate.
The NWO was great right up until the point it became the focal point of the entire show as wrestling goes the good guys eventually beat the heels but for some strange reason the NWO just kept on winning.
because in reality WCW couldn't book a good story to save their lives, so they stuck with the only thing they had. and they still screwed up plenty of NWO story lines because they were incompetent.
The 90s was the pinnacle of cool. You wouldn't understand if you weren't there. We had attitude. We didn't give a *u*k. We didn't kiss anybody's a**, and we were realizing we didn't have to give a *h*t what you thought about that. We were tearing down the authority and literally bringing in a new regime - we were truly united in our individualism. What happend? The 90s... the greatest time to be alive... everybody was crass, but everybody was given a fair chance. We had perfected human existence... how did we let it slip away?
From the first night Hall appeared me and my brother never missed a Nitro until they told everyone that mankind was going to win the title I immediately changed channels and never went back to WCW
Peak WWE? WWE was in shackles and scrambling to survive during this period. It wasn't until mid '98 that things picked up for them. WCW/nWo kicked their butts for 83 weeks.
wcw didnt realize that the diamond studd and vinnie vegas would put them at the top of the industry in just 4 short years. oh yeah, and that steve austin kid did alright too.
Yea but as time went on there was heat with Kevin Nash & Hulk Hogan then caused the split from wolf pac red. Starrcade 1997 ppv botch job ect. Before you know it Vince McMahon bought them out.
The Monday night wars…. You just had to live & experience the wrestling era to understand & appreciate what all blood 🩸 sweat 😓 & tears 😭 WCW,NWO,WWE, & ECW did for all of us fans!! It was all just too sweet & amazing to watch It live & In person… I’m starting to get a Nostalgia feeling & high😂😂😂😂😂😂
nwo was proberly one of the best factions in wrestling. but nwo is what killed wcw. they won every week because wrestlers had creative control then faction got bigger than wcw roster and it just went sour. the origional nwo with hall nash and hogan was peek nwo
Hogan weighed about 100lbs less than he did in the 80’s off the 🥤 but the NWO was the coolest thing to ever happen to pro wrestling. Then they introduced Goldberg and WCW was just better than the WWF for 83 weeks
you can call what ever you like but man !! After watching this Documentary !! have a huge respect for Eric Bischoff and NWO man !! just Goose Bumps Every time
Sting angle was ruined by Hogan. We all know they were trying to steal some of the WWFs rub with a angle where the ref screws sting but they fucked it up LOL
I remember at this time, they started a gimmick of fining anyone who did a powerbomb, and kevin nash would doem on purpose and laugh 😂😂. This was such a great era ofwrestling
