Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
I listen to these interviews of 90’s WWF wrestlers and personalities and it seems they tend to dismiss WCW as never being on their level, and attribute the upper hand they had in the ratings as solely due to Hall and Nash coming down.
Obviously the NWO was a huge part of their success and the highest ratings they ever got when they beat WWF for 83 straight weeks was during the NWO’s prime, but if you look at the head-to-head ratings prior to Hall’s debut on 5/27/96, they had basically been a tie since Nitro’s inception.
On nights where they were both on at the same time prior to 5/27/96, Raw had a slim lead of 16-15-2.
All these WWF dudes on these podcasts and interviews—can’t remember them all—Bruce Prichard to that racist hoe Sunny to even Hall and Nash themselves talk about WCW like it sucked, it was the bush league and no one watched it til Hall and Nash and came down and showed them how to do it.
Granted, WCW was always more disorganized and less focused and cohesive than the WWF and frankly had too many terrible angles and wrestlers, but the numbers don’t lie. They were in virtual tie for 9 months before the NWO.
I think a lot of WWF people from that era are still bitter about how Nitro had their foot on their necks for a couple of years.
It’s a big what if to think about if Hall and Nash never came down. Bischoff wanted to heel turn Hogan anyway, so they would’ve found another way to do it. Maybe some WWF talent other than Hall and Nash would’ve taken those big Turner checks to come down.
Obviously the NWO was a huge part of their success and the highest ratings they ever got when they beat WWF for 83 straight weeks was during the NWO’s prime, but if you look at the head-to-head ratings prior to Hall’s debut on 5/27/96, they had basically been a tie since Nitro’s inception.
On nights where they were both on at the same time prior to 5/27/96, Raw had a slim lead of 16-15-2.
All these WWF dudes on these podcasts and interviews—can’t remember them all—Bruce Prichard to that racist hoe Sunny to even Hall and Nash themselves talk about WCW like it sucked, it was the bush league and no one watched it til Hall and Nash and came down and showed them how to do it.
Granted, WCW was always more disorganized and less focused and cohesive than the WWF and frankly had too many terrible angles and wrestlers, but the numbers don’t lie. They were in virtual tie for 9 months before the NWO.
I think a lot of WWF people from that era are still bitter about how Nitro had their foot on their necks for a couple of years.
It’s a big what if to think about if Hall and Nash never came down. Bischoff wanted to heel turn Hogan anyway, so they would’ve found another way to do it. Maybe some WWF talent other than Hall and Nash would’ve taken those big Turner checks to come down.
