When did you first realise WCW was in decline?

[Playaz Eyez]

Now that I really think about it, when The Radicalz left to go to the WWF. At that point I really knew it was downhill. I remember the different forums I was on back in 2000 and that was everyone's sentiment too.

The Radicalz jumping ship was a major gut punch to WCW. Not only did the Radicalz have major buzz, but increased the general match quality to an already hot show. They went from having Al Snow, Bulldog, Val Venis, Bossman, X-Pac and Billy Gunn as midcard focal points to the Radicalz doing that AND mixing it up with main eventers here and there. WCW thought putting the title on Benoit would be enough to keep him

 

[XannyWarbucks]

Stop breh, At no point in WCW were Bigelow or Wrath more over or more important than Nash.

Some of these fans saying this would also have you believe that Balor vs Ciampa should main event Wrestlemania.

I didn't say that.
Nash's big money match was with Hogan though, not Goldberg. It actually would've been better to just pay Hogan for Starrcade then do the Goldberg vs Nash stuff at Superbrawl.
And, regardless, the fact was they hyped Goldberg vs Bam Bam for most of the Starrcade feud. Dude was a non-factor for most of it. I'm not talking about him winning, rather the actual booking of Goldberg at the time. It made 0 sense to have him beat Hogan and then feud with NWO B&W at the time.
In my initial point, I even said ultimately Goldberg winning was a mistake because it lead to all these issues.

 

[thaKEAF]

Nash was definitely over enough to win. Hell I was rooting for him to end it.

 

[~*--------(Big Boom)]

When silkk the shocker entered the square circle I was like yeah wcw is over

 

[OmegaK2099]

When silkk the shocker entered the square circle I was like yeah wcw is over

That whole PR stunt was cringe

 

[stro]

This was legit one of the most nonsensical things that I ever watched and I was only 6 at the time. I know some people try to defend that Nash was over, but he certainly wasn't over enough to beat Goldberg. If people even remember the things leading up to the feud, Goldberg vs Bigelow and Goldberg vs Wrath were far bigger matches for Starrcade. shyt, I think the Nitro before was Bigelow and Goldberg just scrapping while Nash is standing there like a goof.

I can't pinpoint a moment, but I do think while Goldberg winning the belt was great, doing absolutely nothing with him was nuts. He legit had no feud until the DDP match and didn't get into the Bigelow stuff (which got dropped after Starrcade) until after WW3. He was the Champion, but did nothing because Nash was on the booking committee and didn't want to do anything with him.

Goldberg truly did almost nothing as champ. You'd barely even know he was champ because Hogan was even MORE of the focus on TV after he dropped the belt and if Goldberg was on TV, it was still doing quick squashes against legit jobber tier guys. WCW did absolutely nothing to capitalize on Goldberg's popularity. It's very, very clear there was no plan and it was just to hotshot for a rating. The match was announced on the Thunder before out of the blue for no reason. Imagine how much bigger the rating could have been and how many more tickets they could have sold had they promoted that match for 3-4 weeks.

 

[Ace Money]

it worked for little while, then it got stupid.

Sting was the company fav... they reduced him to some loner in a trenchcoat who sat at the top of arenas, speechless for a year.

You wanna know why people (like me) eventually stopped watching? Stuff like that.



I think it was cool for younger fans who came in during the NWO era.

But for us fans of the old Sting, there was ZERO reason to watch anymore.

Majority of those NWO era fans weren't real fans, so once they got bored they left. And you alienated your REAL fans, so now you're in trouble.....

Bruh said "fukk crow sting and the nikkas he pulled up with!"

 

[supertrekker]

When Vince Russo showed up.

 

[Wacky D]

all promotions have their ups-n-down.

if it wasnt for the boardroom politics, WCW wouldve eventually had another golen era, another wack era, multiple hot streaks & dry spells.

 

[Paper Boi]

i forget what year, but it was a show where there was a title change to open the show and then a 4 way world title match.

ddp was involved


also when me and my friends were talking more about tazz than hoegan...


so maybe even like 1997.

 

[Wacky D]

Warrior's return. Even as a 8 year old, I was like . The Radicals coming in and looking like a million bucks on their first night was amazing and was a huge sign to me at the time that WCW sucked too, I just remember that was all anybody talked about at school the next day.

the radicals came in and jobbed to an inferior DX.

chris benoit was WCW champion for pete's sake. it took him & eddie 4 years to win world titles ONE TIME in the WWE.

they made malenko look silly and killed off saturn's career.

outside of giving eddie a character to run with, the WWF really did nothing for the radicalz.

 

[RhymesWell]

99 when it was clear no matter what NWO wins in the end

 

[Lurk Angle]

Wcw was doomed from the star no clear cut leader like vince with the wwf/e

Even during the nwo run it was on borrowed time because they had no other ideas

 

[julesocean]

When they had Sting join the "cool kids" because Wolfpac had become more over with the fans than the actual WCW brand.

Every week it was "I know Wolfpac is a neutral/face group now, but I can not ignore the great WCW savior Sting going through wars with nWo, and the Wolfpac fukkin leader Kevin Nash only to play himself for fan clout and join.

Nowadays we know that company was fukked from day 1, but I at least enjoyed it as a teen up until the end of the Wolfpac era.

 

[Filthy Sanchez]

When silkk the shocker entered the square circle I was like yeah wcw is over​

That shyt was disgusting​