What went wrong?
firing stunning steve
>>1375644
Literally everything
Vince russo was sent by Vince to sabotage the company
Became too cocky and disrespectful to the executives. Once that AOL merged USAbasically told them to fuck off
>>1375644
misusing a white hot Bret Hart
Fingerpoke of Doom
ending Goldberg's streak
>>1375644
Too much to list
Constant title changes
Letting talent with huge egos have too much creative control
General bad writing
Misusing of talent,
letting potential top players like Benoit, Guerrero, Jericho go
Throwing way too much money at wrestlers past their prime
Shit booking
Giving David Arquette the world heavyweight title
Just so many blunders
>>1375687
Bret wasn't worth shit you dumb mark
>>1375709
18+
>>1375687
Bret was past his prime, if he wasn't Vince wouldn't have let him go.
Nevertheless they paid way too much for him and worse yet completely misused him
>>1375709
Sure thing Shawn
>>1375713
> passed his prime
So you didnt watch the product. He was in the prime years of his career you dumb mark, hitman circa 97 was GOAT
Man i hate you kliq kiddies, fuck off back to youtube comment section
>>1375709
Giving Hogan creative control
>>1375718
Vince wasn't a fucking retard like the WCW bookers, if they could have used him effectively he would have given anything to keep him.
It's time to face fucking facts.
Bret was a great technician but he was a bore on the mic.
I grew up during the 90s and his reign was one of the worst, most boring, least profitable years in the company's history.
As a child I watched Hogan and Macho man but lost interest when Hart became the man. Michaels was at least entertaining on the mic.
Hart was boring as fuck. He was very technically gifted and entertained in the ring but he had the personality of a potato.
>>1375739
>I grew up during the 90s
= "I was born in 1999"
>>1375644
Giving Kevin Nash the book.
>>1375707
>Giving David Arquette the world heavyweight title
This was the final nail in the coffin which discredited WCW and killed them ultimately.
Nobody even liked that weasley Arquette fuck at the time - so what the hell???
>Stardust and that arrow faggot. They remind me a lot of that event.
>>1375739
>had
>>1375644
you realised you deserved more as a human being than planting yourself in front of a tv to watch choreographed fights.
>>1375644
There is literally a book written about everything WCW did wrong.
>>1375644
This one comes to mind.
>>1375747
THIS
>>1375741
You missed the part where I said that I started watching wrestling during the Hogan/Macho Man years
During the years when Earthquake and the Ultimate Warrior were around in the WWF
I was there when the Undertaker had his first matches but sadly my parents didn't have the money to buy pay per views
I watched the first episodes of Raw is War
>>1375644
Everything.
>>1375644
AOL TIME WARNER
So many Southern staples went to shit once Ted Turner lost control. WCW, the Braves, TBS, TNT, etc.
>>1375644
The Unholy Trinity of Bischoff's Idiocy, Hogan's Ego, and Nash's Politicking.
>>1375900
>I was there when the Undertaker had his first matches but sadly my parents didn't have the money to buy pay per views
At least you didn't have to suffer through Wrestlemania IX
>>1375709
if you really think this you're just plain wrong
he just came off a mega popular year in the WWF and EVERYONE was excited to see what he would do in WCW, it was money laid out right in front of them, and they fucked it up
>>1376346
Replace Bischoff with Russo. Bischoff is very competent when he is given some restraint, but when you give him too much power he'll be too full of himself. Russo is just stupid.
>>1376253
This is the correct answer
>>1375644
>What went wrong?
Giving wrestlers creative control.
>>1375644
They kept nWo going too long, first because they couldn't read it was over and then they kept trying to recapture the magic.
Meanwhile, Vince was doing a bunch of weird, new stuff that was like a bizzaro version of his old gimmicks and people started tuning in to it because it wasn't predictable. Eventually people burned out on it but by then WCW was a victim of overspending and a loss of management confidence.
>>1375644
Everything. Read The Death of WCW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9sqTLR16-I
>>1379012
I guess this pretty much summed it up.
Sting not getting a strong win over Hogan and ending the NWO at Starrcade '97.
It was all down hill from there.
Oh, and this>>1376253
>>1376253
>No more WCW
>No more Barves games on TBS
It's like Shermans March to the Sea all over again
>>1375739
Bret Hart got mega reactions after his heel turn then his run with the anti-American Hart Foundation. Mega heat in the US, and big pops everywhere else. If you want to say Bret was a boring babyface, I'd give you that. But he did good work as a heel.
Also, Shawn Michaels is the all time record low ratings guy, and all the other kids at school thought he was a faggot.
>>1375739
>Bret's reign was boring
>somehow Warrior's wasn't
Wanna know how I can tell you're full of shit?
Does anyone else miss Thunder?
