When did you first realise WCW was in decline?

[DaylitoJames]

When Nick Patrick botched the count during the Sting/Hogan match at Starrcade it was slowly going downhill from there

 

[PYRRHUS 88]

to

 

[D-NICE]

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.....

It worked to me. It was a long time but I feel like wrestling had more patience back then with story lines than now. Austin was the fan favorite and was over for most of the year between Wrestlemania 13 and 14 and the payoff when he became champ was worth the wait. Where WCW fukked up with Sting was his Starcade return. We should have been talking about his return like people talk about Wrestlemania 3. Should have been an iconic moment but ego's got in the way.

 

[Ben Ovabich]

When WCW began losing their midcard such as Giant, Jericho, and Raven in 1999.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

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.

i really enjoyed that. he coulda said a few words i guess...but i enjoyed that more than WOOO HOOOOO surfer sting

 

[MexicanKingpin]

Goldberg debuted before Austin even popped off

Austin popped off in 96 dummy
goldberg didn't debut until july of 97

 

[Silkk]

Austin popped off in 96 dummy
goldberg didn't debut until july of 97

Austin was a bum in 96

 

[patscorpio]

Jeff Jarrett being a main event guy

there was a reason why dude was not really considered for a main event spot in the WWE (aside from him catching the vapors from Steve because of a grudge)..dude was a solid hand but not main event level

the celebrity main events
the other NWO Factions (aside from LWO)
unmasking luchadores or changing wrestlers into a heatless or old gimmick (alex wright and berlyn as an example)
Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara

 

[MexicanKingpin]

Austin was a bum in 96

He won King of the Ring in 96
goldberg was a bum in 96 & couldn't save flop ass wcw from drowning

 

[Silkk]

He won King of the Ring in 96
goldberg was a bum in 96 & couldn't save flop ass wcw from drowning

I don't give a fukk bout either one of them bald bytches

 

[King P]

When everybody and their mama started joining up, and cam we stop saying Goldberg was a copy of Austin. Aside from being bald with black trunks the similarities end right fukkin there.

Thank you. Somebody with some sense. Goldberg was nothing like Austin aside from being bald and white.

The truth is that Goldberg was really a copy of Ken Shamrock. Eric Bischoff even admitted this himself

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

When they switched to that god awful wCw logo :hitmanscust:

 

[MexicanKingpin]

I don't give a fukk bout either one of them bald bytches

You did give a fukk until you got owned

 

[Silkk]

You did give a fukk until you got owned

Sure

 

[Silkk]

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

No he did not