When did you know the Monday night war was official over?

[HipHopStan]

WCW 1998-2001 is like watching a friend slowly get ruined by drugs.

 

[thaKEAF]

Looking back at that finger poke of doom video.

why the hell is Hoegan dressed like he’s going to a funeral?

those title belt shots by Hoegan on Goldberg look awful.

I can’t remember the Mayfair explanation for this afterwards. Like why would Nash lay down and give the world title to Hoegan? Makes him look weak as hell.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

When Jimmy King got a 4 post massacre and dropped the title to DDP. I punched the wall.

 

[malbaker86]

Whenever Nitro started using them bum ass struggle sets in 2000

When they didnt push Scott Norton to be more exact

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

WCW 1998-2001 is like watching a friend slowly get ruined by drugs.

I’d say that’s accurate. I’m from Virginia; Ric Flair country, so I grew up on the NWA. My dad took me to a few NWA events at the Norfolk scope as a youngin. I was even at Starrcade 88 when I was 8 years old.

So I always had a soft spot for WCW and didn’t mess with WWF too heavy as a kid. WWF was the goofy cartoony shyt. NWA was the real pure southern rasslin’. 1 hour slow-paced scientific wrestling matches that seemed real, not much gimmicks.

Of course they had long since moved away from that by time the Monday night war started, but they did stay true to their pure wrestling roots with the midcard matches of Benoit, Malenko, etc. and all the cruiserweights, lucha libre guys, Japanese wrestlers, Lord Steven Regal, etc. You could count on them to deliver great undercard matches even if the main events were geriatric. After a while, that went away. When the Radicalz left, forget about it.

So I still rooted for them even though by 98 or so I was keeping the channel on USA way more than TNT on Monday nights. Even after the fingerpoke of doom I hoped they would pull it together somehow. I even gave the Russo era a shot before realizing he was all smoke and mirrors pretty quickly. It was a wrap by then though. I definitely felt a way about them going under and McMahon buying them

 

[Reality Check]

Normally I'd say the fingerpoke of doom, but in hindsight, the decline started with Goldberg/Hogan in July 1998. Match should have gotten a longer build and been held on a PPV, but they hotshotted it to the Georgia Dome on Thunder a few days before. The victory on the PPV would have "made" Goldberg more than what went down. Goldberg by the way did not Main Event a PPV as champ until 3 months after he won the belt (Hogan/Rodman vs. DDP/Karl Malone Main Evented BATB while Goldberg faced Curt Hennig, Hogan/Bischoff vs. DDP/Jay fukking Leno Main Evented Road Wild while Goldberg was in a Battle Royal, and the War Games match headlined Fall Brawl while Goldberg wasn't even on the card) and when he finally did Main Event at Halloween Havoc as the Heavyweight Champ, the feed cut out right as the match started. Not to mention he wasn't on the card for the World War 3 PPV either.

 

[HipHopStan]

When Jimmy King got a 4 post massacre and dropped the title to DDP. I punched the wall.

Ready to Rumble turned 20 earlier this month.

 

[mcellas]

Finger Poke after that I stopped watching I randomly turn to it one day and Hulk Hogan returned with the red and black and was champion. Stopped watching again until i heard Booker T won the belt I was so happy for him that I tuned in just or his segments.

 

[StarClout]

Ready to Rumble turned 20 earlier this month.

Life comes at you fast

 

[DOGGFATHER96]

I stopped after watching wcw
after Bret hart got there, he just looked outta place.