When did you first realise WCW was in decline?

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

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

Mucu more than that though, for years common viewing patterns for the shows was

First hour uncontested nitro
Opening segment raw
Hour two nitro
Flip between raw and nitro until...
Main event raw

Hour two turned terrible, and you had no incentive to flip between the shows once the guys who got into nitro were gone or at least the matches got way less compelling.

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

When they switched the stage set up it was over.

 

[Arizax2]

When random people started joining the NWO... I stayed rocking with them way longer than I should have

 

[dh86]

When they debuted Bret Hart for Eric Bischoff vs Larry Zbysko and then fukked up the pin in the Sting match. The NWO in general nosedived and stopped making sense the day Bischoff joined

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

It's hard for me to remember a lot from back in those days. So I'll go with David Arquette winning the WCW Championship and this

When random people started joining the NWO... I stayed rocking with them way longer than I should have

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Around 98 after the Sting/Hogan match where they said award the belt back to Hogan because bullshyt.

Once they started focusing on letting Leno wrestle, my damns went out of the window.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Did Nash taking a dive for Hogan to win the title happen before of after the David Arquette fiasco?

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

when Bret Hart was fueding with Will Sasso

 

[Serious]

I didnt I just woke up one day and they were gone...

 

[KFBF]

David Arauette.

 

[Buzzed Lightyear]

If I was this age when it happened, I'd say at Starrcade because it showed how irresponsible management & the wrestlers were on the biggest ppv in their history.

Then the debut episode of Thunder. It couldn't hold a candle to Nitro's debut. It was a bunch of dull, boring, 2-4 minute matches with no surprises.

But since I was a teen back then that wasn't interested in the backstage shıt & all that, just wanted to see my favorites win & enjoy the show I noticed that I was switching to WWF & watching it longer during 99. In 2000 when Scott Steiner was running wild, The Cat was the commissioner, & all that I was tuned in more again but I wasn't too much fųcking with Thunder. I watched until it folded.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Starrcade 98 finish and I knew it was over with the finger poke. Nwo being back and it felt long in the tooth. Hogan was the champ again like 98' never happened.

 

[thaKEAF]

Did Nash taking a dive for Hogan to win the title happen before of after the David Arquette fiasco?

Over a year before.

 

[Redwood]

Nitro officially becoming three hours. It was fine at first, but then the quality dipped sometime during the summer.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

NWO 2000...The New Blood...

By the end of 1998 it was painfully obvious WCW was in dire straits