This is really where it got the bad name. WCW fans had avoided wwe like the plague only to have WCW be worse. I am genuinely curious how many people just outright stopped watching wrestling and never bothered again. I know I wanted to stop and if it wasn't for stuff like NWATNA and then TNA I wouldn't have watched wrestling ever again.
It was a lot more dull than you'd be led to think. For every THATS THE WALL BROTHER you had to sit through overlong heatless Hugh Morrus and Shawn Stasiak matches.
No it was lightyears better than anything AEW will ever do or anything WWE has done in years. People who say shit about it didn't watch it when it happened and watch way too many homosexuals on youtube/podcasts.
In fact, the final months of WCW had some stellar matches. The final night had some of the best work of that year.
It was really, really fricking bad. If you're familiar with the glut of shitters the WWE had during, and post-invasion, that was what populated a lot of the cards at the time. And any talent you gave a frick about were doing le epic worked shoots pretty much every week. Also, no one looked like a wrestler. Almost every single guy was working in jorts and a t-shirt so you knew that this was really real and not gimmicked like other wrestling. Kill me.
Anyway it wasn't 100% bad, but it's only worth watching in a historical context, as I wouldn't say there's any gems worth suffering for. Even a lot of other promotions at their worst were at least laughably bad.
>Almost every single guy was working in jorts and a t-shirt so you knew that this was really real and not gimmicked like other wrestling
Horrible, horrible era.
What time frame are you talking about? There's several different eras in just the last two years of WCW
Spring Stampede 99 the last truly great top to bottom WCW PPV and actually felt cool
DDP's world title and stuff with the Jersey Triad + Raven/ + Kidman/Rey + Malenko/Benoit matches are all worth watching
Road Wild 99 the last great waste of money from Bischoff
Halloween Havoc 99 and Mayhem 99: the start of the Russo era. Worth observing a seismic change in WCW
Spring Breakout 2000 the best Nitro of the Sullivan booked era. That's the wall brother
Spring Stampede 2000 the beginning of the end. Interesting to watch
That New York rules battle royal on thunder - macho man's last match
The Wargames 2000 episode of Nitro. Russo kino even though the swerve doesn't make sense
The UK and Australia yours for Nitro and Thunder : genuinely big crowds for WCW
Then once Steiner wins the world title, WCW stabilizes and its not bad.... But its too late.
Starrcade 2000 a serviceable final Starrcade.
Sin, Revenge and Greed were fine.
Ric Flair's Magnificent 7 were a good stable. The cruiserweight division was revitalized, O'Haire, Jindrak and Palumbo were actually starting to break out
It's a tragedy we'll never see Bischoff's Big Bang
Wrong kid died
>muh dimeless daddy we the le best wrassler
KWAJA
He's better than all modern wrestlers.
it wasn't all bad
I could have saved her
Why didn't you?
Too busy watching Billy Gunn turn heel on Paul Wight
I could have made her worse
Vampiro was running the upper midcard
Mostly just depressing compared to what it was a year or two before
This is really where it got the bad name. WCW fans had avoided wwe like the plague only to have WCW be worse. I am genuinely curious how many people just outright stopped watching wrestling and never bothered again. I know I wanted to stop and if it wasn't for stuff like NWATNA and then TNA I wouldn't have watched wrestling ever again.
It was pretty bad. But there was some good stuff.
I didnt watch, what is that? The crackprostitute Brady bunch?
It was a lot more dull than you'd be led to think. For every THATS THE WALL BROTHER you had to sit through overlong heatless Hugh Morrus and Shawn Stasiak matches.
Very reminiscent of modern day AEW in some ways
No it was lightyears better than anything AEW will ever do or anything WWE has done in years. People who say shit about it didn't watch it when it happened and watch way too many homosexuals on youtube/podcasts.
In fact, the final months of WCW had some stellar matches. The final night had some of the best work of that year.
Jarrett was pushed hard which I hated. Dude was an awesome mid career but didn't deserve a top spot in such a stacked roster.
It was really, really fricking bad. If you're familiar with the glut of shitters the WWE had during, and post-invasion, that was what populated a lot of the cards at the time. And any talent you gave a frick about were doing le epic worked shoots pretty much every week. Also, no one looked like a wrestler. Almost every single guy was working in jorts and a t-shirt so you knew that this was really real and not gimmicked like other wrestling. Kill me.
Anyway it wasn't 100% bad, but it's only worth watching in a historical context, as I wouldn't say there's any gems worth suffering for. Even a lot of other promotions at their worst were at least laughably bad.
>Almost every single guy was working in jorts and a t-shirt so you knew that this was really real and not gimmicked like other wrestling
Horrible, horrible era.
What time frame are you talking about? There's several different eras in just the last two years of WCW
Spring Stampede 99 the last truly great top to bottom WCW PPV and actually felt cool
DDP's world title and stuff with the Jersey Triad + Raven/ + Kidman/Rey + Malenko/Benoit matches are all worth watching
Road Wild 99 the last great waste of money from Bischoff
Halloween Havoc 99 and Mayhem 99: the start of the Russo era. Worth observing a seismic change in WCW
Spring Breakout 2000 the best Nitro of the Sullivan booked era. That's the wall brother
Spring Stampede 2000 the beginning of the end. Interesting to watch
That New York rules battle royal on thunder - macho man's last match
The Wargames 2000 episode of Nitro. Russo kino even though the swerve doesn't make sense
The UK and Australia yours for Nitro and Thunder : genuinely big crowds for WCW
Then once Steiner wins the world title, WCW stabilizes and its not bad.... But its too late.
Starrcade 2000 a serviceable final Starrcade.
Sin, Revenge and Greed were fine.
Ric Flair's Magnificent 7 were a good stable. The cruiserweight division was revitalized, O'Haire, Jindrak and Palumbo were actually starting to break out
It's a tragedy we'll never see Bischoff's Big Bang
Wrong kid died