Rock had to go make a movie after WM 18..what did they do? Took the belt off of Cripple H 30 days after he won it because they thought still had juice left following the icon match. But that didnt last either and they just gave it to Taker in the end till Rock came back.
His heel title reign flopped in fall of 1999 as well. So they had to reboot him with DX and put him with stephanie and vince to get him over. He couldnt even main event mania 16 all alone as the heel. It was based on a mcmahon in every corner. Lmaooo. And with austin foley taker all leaving in the fall. There was noone left except the rock so they had no choice but to use HHH .shyt Until Angle developed then they had benoit jericho get hot and then taker and austin returned....hhh never saw the world title again until 2002 his big return where he flopped again and they put it on fukkin hogan and taker until.rock got it back.
Triple H in WWF and Jeff Jarrett in WCW were basically the same thing in 2000. But by that point, one company was good, the other company was shyt. That’s the biggest difference between the two.His heel title reign flopped in fall of 1999 as well. So they had to reboot him with DX and put him with stephanie and vince to get him over. He couldnt even main event mania 16 all alone as the heel. It was based on a mcmahon in every corner. Lmaooo. And with austin foley taker all leaving in the fall. There was noone left except the rock so they had no choice but to use HHH .shyt Until Angle developed then they had benoit jericho get hot and then taker and austin returned....hhh never saw the world title again until 2002 his big return where he flopped again and they put it on fukkin hogan and taker until.rock got it back.
I know it’s the red wolfpac, yeah ok. It’s still the NWO. Wtf was the point?
Looking back at it now, I’ll take an Ultimo Dragon match over any of these main events.
Somebody in some thread said watching WCW from 99-01 is like watching a friend slowly dying from drugs. I’m revisiting the PPVs and I already feel that way halfway through 98.
Hitman going from being the best wrestler in the world 6 months ago to meandering around from one listless awful angle to another, can’t even remember if he’s heel or face from one month to the next. They got HitGOAT wrestling for the TV title???
Sting is in the NWO. I repeat STING IS IN THE NWO. Wasn’t he this mythological hero franchise of WCW that just took the gold back from the NWO? Now he’s in it...as a face?
Wolfpac was corny and cringey as fukk. That’s what happens when you give a 7 foot tall 46 year old graying whigger increasing creative control. You get a bunch of other 40 year old white guys and a Mexican named K-Dog to form a gang and come out to some Kid Frost b-side knockoff entrance theme.
Roddy Piper’s old grandad bod ass still in main events.
The legendary GOATness of Chris Jericho being relegated to midcard cruiserweight status.
The undercards still got some heat though.
I haven’t even got post-fingerpoke of doom and the Russo era yet. Lord help me.
There was so much that could’ve been done with Bret with an ounce of creative booking! They had dynamite on their hands and didn’t know what to do with it. The screwjob was the talk of the business. He had some bad blood with Hoegan dating back to Hoegan not wanting to put him over on his way out of the WWF. Hall and Nash were part of the kliq aligned with his arch-nemesis opponent in the screwjob, and Hart cut promos about running them out of the WWF just a couple of months ago. So there was drama galore and all type of worked shoot type opportunities, but he needed to be thrust in the main event picture immediately...not be a fukking referee.Bret came in the hottest dude in the business, fresh off the most controversial event in wrestling history up to that point, the undefeated WWF Champion....and it was 2 years before he won the WCW Championship and then he did a month long bullshyt swerve for an NWO reunion and then got concussed and retired
"Thats not gonna work for me...brother"
Caused the knee injury that he worked on through June of 1998 and finally got surgery and came back juiced to the t*ts with the terrible 1999 run and that was it beyond a couple of random house shows and NJ match against Rick Steiner in 2000 as a last second replacement for Goldberg.
