Nah, Vince's EGO is the real culprit. He wanted to bury WCW and anyone that tried to make a name for themselves in other promotion.
Vince bringing in the NWO to kill the company in storyline actually killed the company in reality
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Rell84shots
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Except they had plenty of profitable years afterwards. Seriously do ya'll know what killing something actually means? WCW was killed by bad decisions, while the WWE is still a multi billion dollar company.
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Yea, I dont think they meaning financially just quality.
Like Justice League made $657M, but it was an embarrassingly shytty movie
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Is there a list of non-Saudi WWE profits?
El Cocodrilo
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nwo did take over wcw though, like they said they would
and in some ways it did kill wcw
and in some ways it did kill wcw
On a related note: The Austin/Hall abduction angle is some of the most mean spirited shyt from Vince. It'd be like if they did one of these angles with Jeff Hardy but had Sheamus taunting him with real drugs and angles where the drugs were in his face and shyt.
This was Hall's FIRST WEEK back with the company and they're putting him in an angle where he's being taunted with beer all night and has beer spilled and poured over him multiple times during the day. While Vince full well knew his problem was so severe he was on probation upon signing and Hall was on meds that would make him sick even smelling booze.
This was Hall's FIRST WEEK back with the company and they're putting him in an angle where he's being taunted with beer all night and has beer spilled and poured over him multiple times during the day. While Vince full well knew his problem was so severe he was on probation upon signing and Hall was on meds that would make him sick even smelling booze.
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You can't leave out Hall going out and getting fukked up and being hungover as hell being a big part of Stone Cold refusing to take that loss.
No, no, no..it should of been RVD vs Benoit vs Eddie vs Jericho
Sting vs the Rock
Austin vs Goldberg
Undertaker vs Sting
Hogan vs Austin
Rock and Austin vs Outsiders
Outsiders vs Taker/Kane
Thats money...
His match with Austin is such a mess. You'd think one of them got concussed in the early moments or something, but Perfect was definitely looking bloated and walks like a guy with a completely fukked back.
As for Austin putting over Hall....that was never going to happen under any circumstances. Austin also wasn't going to lay down for Nash or Hogan, either. But I haven't heard a story of Hall coming in hungover on any of the shows before WM. But that'd be a pretty hypocritical reason for Austin, who was boozing HARD daily at the time and it was showing in his physique, not to put someone over.
All these NWO segments fukking suck. Every single promo, every backstage thing, they're all so lame and uncool. None of the 3 seem like they particularly give a shyt, there's absolutely none of the edge or danger to any of them that there was in 1996/1997. And definitely none of the coolness. The Rock/Hogan match build is stupid trash, luckily saved by the match and crowd. Hall and Nash are too old to be motivated and have fire to them at this point, Hogan wasn't cool even in 1996.
And their shyt is so over the top. The NWO in 1996/1997 could beat up the entire WCW roster with 3-6 guys with a couple of bats. The NWO of 2002 is digging around ringside for wrenches and hammers, ramming ambulances with semis, wheeling out cinder blocks to bust on knees. Hogan doing promos alone with a cardboard cutout of Rock like it's 2000 yappapi. Vince obviously did not understand what made the NWO work the first time and his version of it was so over produced and lame. And this is coming off of years of lame as fukk NWO anyway.
Their entire purpose of being brought in was Vince trying to back Flair into a corner to sell his half of the company back with the thread of the NWO ruining the company like it did WCW. Flair doesn't back down, Vince brings in the NWO, and then is completely hands off with the NWO, who only go after Austin and Rock. This ultimately doesn't even matter because Flair is forced to relinquish his half of the company to wrestle Taker at WM. None of the other members of the roster give a shyt about the NWO after the first night because no one but Rock and Austin interacts with them. They aren't disrupting shows, they aren't attacking randoms. There's no attempt to takeover. Literally the entire reason they were brought in is dropped the next night and the original cause of them being brought in is resolved 2 weeks later in an unrelated angle.
EDIT: Also they streamed WM 18 on WWF.com
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The full scope of how nonsense this run was:
Vince threatens to bring in the NWO in an attempt to pressure Flair to give up his half of the company. Flair tells him he's making a huge mistake, these guys are going to ruin everything, but won't give up his half of the company. The NWO arrives at No Way Out in February, immediately interfering in the title match, costing Austin the match. Flair then loses his power in the company anyway to go forward with his feud with Taker.
Throughout the 4 weeks between No Way Out and WM, Vince has absolutely nothing to do with them and they only interact with Austin and Rock. At WM, Hall and Nash kick Hogan out of the group. The next night, X-Pac replaces him, Flair gets his power back and the brand split is announced.
Ric Flair drafts....the NWO.
The same guys he told Vince he was making a huge mistake bringing them in, who has a long and storied past with the group from the WCW days. He almost immediately suspends Kevin Nash who of course is already injured and needs a surgery. After picking Big Show as Austin's partner against Hall and X-Pac, Big Show turns on Austin and joins the NWO. I think this is now the 3rd time he had joined the NWO. Austin blames Flair for this. Within the month, Flair is a full heel feuding with Austin and is a defacto member of the NWO, essentially replacing Scott Hall who was fired on screen by Flair and off screen by Vince after the Flight From Hell. 
Flair then one week randomly picks Booker T to be the newest member of the NWO.
When Kevin Nash returns a week or two later, he makes it a point that they didn't pick Booker to be in the group, but he's in it so that's that. After Austin walks out of the company, Flair completely drops the association with the group, loses his 50% to Vince, and then returns to active competition as a face.
For a few weeks, X-Pac/Big Show don't get along with Booker, and Nash gets mad a lot. Then he brings back HBK as the newest member of the group.
A week later, HBK kicks Booker (after some very
comments) out of the group for trying to outshine the NWO like Austin did to him and Rock did to Hunter. For the next month or so, Big Show and X-Pac do comedy skits with Booker and Goldust while HBK cuts promos about how Nash is the leader and the NWO is the most powerful group in WWE, and Nash threatens to beat up X-Pac and Big Show if they lose any matches every week. They make overtures to HHH to join the group, but as HHH is out with an injury, he doesn't respond, so they say there is going to be some big conflict one way or the other at Vengeance, which of course never happens because Kevin Nash immediately blew out his quad in his first match back and the next week Vince buried the group for good. And on that same night, he brought in Eric Bischoff to be GM, which sounds an awful lot like the logic of bringing Ric Flair in the night after the WCW angle ended 
So in the roughly 5 months the NWO was in WWE: They never went after any titles. They never disrupted any shows. They were brought in by one boss and listened to the other and even let the boss pick members of the group and didn't even argue about it. They only interacted with whoever they directly feuding with: IE Austin and Rock, then Austin and Bradshaw, then Booker T. They hung out in the back drinking coffee and reading newspapers. The whole "they're such bad influences, locker room cancer" stuff was dropped after about 2 weeks. Especially in the few weeks of HBK's involvement, they'd come out and say they're the most dominant group in WWE and blah blah blah but they lost every major match any of them had. Hogan got kicked out of the group within a month, Kevin Nash was injured within a month, Hall was fired within 3 months. X-PAC was the replacement for Hogan for fukk's sake
What's very clear to me is that Vince was only interested in Hogan from the start and didn't give a shyt about what Hall and Nash were there to do or if they were there at all. From day one all the announcers would talk up how much of a legend Hogan was and they'd basically just ignore that Nash had a year long WWF Championship run, 5 time WCW Champion, broke Goldberg's streak. Pretty much ignored that Hall was one of the most popular guys they had in the 90s, 4 time IC Champ, legendary ladder match "creator". All they talked about was Nash being lazy and Hall's drinking problem.
Honestly the WWE NWO might be as impotent and cursed as NWO 2000. Vince clearly didn't understand even the concept of the group
Vince threatens to bring in the NWO in an attempt to pressure Flair to give up his half of the company. Flair tells him he's making a huge mistake, these guys are going to ruin everything, but won't give up his half of the company. The NWO arrives at No Way Out in February, immediately interfering in the title match, costing Austin the match. Flair then loses his power in the company anyway to go forward with his feud with Taker.
Throughout the 4 weeks between No Way Out and WM, Vince has absolutely nothing to do with them and they only interact with Austin and Rock. At WM, Hall and Nash kick Hogan out of the group. The next night, X-Pac replaces him, Flair gets his power back and the brand split is announced.
Ric Flair drafts....the NWO.
The same guys he told Vince he was making a huge mistake bringing them in, who has a long and storied past with the group from the WCW days. He almost immediately suspends Kevin Nash who of course is already injured and needs a surgery. After picking Big Show as Austin's partner against Hall and X-Pac, Big Show turns on Austin and joins the NWO. I think this is now the 3rd time he had joined the NWO. Austin blames Flair for this. Within the month, Flair is a full heel feuding with Austin and is a defacto member of the NWO, essentially replacing Scott Hall who was fired on screen by Flair and off screen by Vince after the Flight From Hell. Flair then one week randomly picks Booker T to be the newest member of the NWO. When Kevin Nash returns a week or two later, he makes it a point that they didn't pick Booker to be in the group, but he's in it so that's that. After Austin walks out of the company, Flair completely drops the association with the group, loses his 50% to Vince, and then returns to active competition as a face.
For a few weeks, X-Pac/Big Show don't get along with Booker, and Nash gets mad a lot. Then he brings back HBK as the newest member of the group. A week later, HBK kicks Booker (after some very
comments) out of the group for trying to outshine the NWO like Austin did to him and Rock did to Hunter. For the next month or so, Big Show and X-Pac do comedy skits with Booker and Goldust while HBK cuts promos about how Nash is the leader and the NWO is the most powerful group in WWE, and Nash threatens to beat up X-Pac and Big Show if they lose any matches every week. They make overtures to HHH to join the group, but as HHH is out with an injury, he doesn't respond, so they say there is going to be some big conflict one way or the other at Vengeance, which of course never happens because Kevin Nash immediately blew out his quad in his first match back and the next week Vince buried the group for good. And on that same night, he brought in Eric Bischoff to be GM, which sounds an awful lot like the logic of bringing Ric Flair in the night after the WCW angle ended So in the roughly 5 months the NWO was in WWE: They never went after any titles. They never disrupted any shows. They were brought in by one boss and listened to the other and even let the boss pick members of the group and didn't even argue about it. They only interacted with whoever they directly feuding with: IE Austin and Rock, then Austin and Bradshaw, then Booker T. They hung out in the back drinking coffee and reading newspapers. The whole "they're such bad influences, locker room cancer" stuff was dropped after about 2 weeks. Especially in the few weeks of HBK's involvement, they'd come out and say they're the most dominant group in WWE and blah blah blah but they lost every major match any of them had. Hogan got kicked out of the group within a month, Kevin Nash was injured within a month, Hall was fired within 3 months. X-PAC was the replacement for Hogan for fukk's sake
What's very clear to me is that Vince was only interested in Hogan from the start and didn't give a shyt about what Hall and Nash were there to do or if they were there at all. From day one all the announcers would talk up how much of a legend Hogan was and they'd basically just ignore that Nash had a year long WWF Championship run, 5 time WCW Champion, broke Goldberg's streak. Pretty much ignored that Hall was one of the most popular guys they had in the 90s, 4 time IC Champ, legendary ladder match "creator". All they talked about was Nash being lazy and Hall's drinking problem.
Honestly the WWE NWO might be as impotent and cursed as NWO 2000. Vince clearly didn't understand even the concept of the group