When did you first realise WCW was in decline?

[jadillac]

oh, and when they took their most POPULAR lynchpin/lifeblood of the company, Sting, and made him a mute.

I mean it was interesting for like a few months, but Sting was way too charismatic and fans loved hearing him for WCW to not let him speak for over a year or however long it was.

It was just overkill, as was everything WCW did.

 

[Silkk]

oh, and when they took their most POPULAR lynchpin/lifeblood of the company, Sting, and made him a mute.

I mean it was interesting for like a few months, but Sting was way too charismatic and fans loved hearing him for WCW to not let him speak for over a year or however long it was.

It was just overkill, as was everything WCW did.

It worked tho

 

[TL15]

I love Hall and Nash (especially back then)

but watching this version of the N-Struggle U- O was brutal

 

[stro]

oh, and when they took their most POPULAR lynchpin/lifeblood of the company, Sting, and made him a mute.

I mean it was interesting for like a few months, but Sting was way too charismatic and fans loved hearing him for WCW to not let him speak for over a year or however long it was.

It was just overkill, as was everything WCW did.

It was their most successful angle ever and led to Sting being an actual superstar on the level of Hogan/Macho for a while. And ended with WCW's biggest buyrate ever. Weird you would have thought WCW was in decline from that angle.

 

[jadillac]

It worked tho

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.

It was their most successful angle ever and led to Sting being an actual superstar on the level of Hogan/Macho for a while. And ended with WCW's biggest buyrate ever. Weird you would have thought WCW was in decline from that angle.

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.....

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

oh and the random free ppvs lol

 

[puppetmaster]

Summer of 98. WWE was becoming the more interesting product by then to me. i was Hogan'd out and didn't want to see Hall and Nash feud

WCW was flooded with talent but weren't really moving any of the mid card players up the card aside from Goldberg.

Look at their roster circa July/August of 1998 and tell me that same company goes under less than 3 years later, you wouldn't buy it if you didn't see it.

 

[Tommy Fits]

Jeff Jarrett being a main event guy

 

[John Reena]

When Sting joined NWO Wolfpack. He started wearing baggy jeans n tryna b hip. Plus why would he join a organization that tried to take him out. I was done

 

[dbp]

On the flip side, anyone get the impression that WWE was doing as bad as they were in 94-96? Young me had no ideal, I assumed the company was doing amazing.

Never really watched WCW, but the first moment I thought they were in trouble was when X-Pac came back to WWE. Seemed like the first sign that guys were going to start switching back rather than leaving WWE for WCW.

 

[stro]

On the flip side, anyone get the impression that WWE was doing as bad as they were in 94-96? Young me had no ideal, I assumed the company was doing amazing.

Never really watched WCW, but the first moment I thought they were in trouble was when X-Pac came back to WWE. Seemed like the first sign that guys were going to start switching back rather than leaving WWE for WCW.

Not in 1994 or 1996, but 1995 felt like I was going turn on Raw one week and find out it got cancelled like a random cartoon on Saturday morning.

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

When Shane McMahon was on tnt at the wcw event.

I wasn't nearly as well aware and critical back then as I am now.

Wrestlers skipping from wrestling company to wrestling company was the norn back then so that never bothered me. Plus I've seen the good and bad when it came to wrestling storylines so that also didn't bother me.

 

[Buzzed Lightyear]

When I finally got tired of Nitro's dream match main events always ending in DQ. After I started predicting a run-in I knew it was gonna be a wrap. I still continued to watch though.

 

[stro]

When I finally got tired of Nitro's dream match main events always ending in DQ. After I started predicting a run-in I knew it was gonna be a wrap. I still continued to watch though.

Lol that started in 1995

 

[OmegaK2099]

i loved nash and all but he shouldnt have been booking the shows in 99