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[Data West]

Remember when Buff went to the WWF and he realized "Oh fuck, I need to be good?"

Or marry the boss's daughter

Ha. Buff Bagwell's career highlight was having his neck broken by Rick Steiner.

The Buff Bagwell/Scott Steiner promos were so popular that WCW let them spend as long as they liked on tv with them and come up with their own material

Mr Perfect's career highlights was those taped vignettes where he said one line and being Ric Flair's tagalong

 

[Deleted member 47027]

The thing is I dont remember half the members of NWO ever wrestling in matches. Like did Virgil or Ted Dibiase ever wrestle while in the NWO?

Ted did not, Virgil had a couple.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

The thing is I dont remember half the members of NWO ever wrestling in matches. Like did Virgil or Ted Dibiase ever wrestle while in the NWO?

no one wrestled in the nwo, they just endlessly filmed vignettes of them turning up/leaving in limos

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Or marry the boss's daughter


The Buff Bagwell/Scott Steiner promos were so popular that WCW let them spend as long as they liked on tv with them and come up with their own material

Mr Perfect's career highlights was those taped vignettes where he said one line and being Ric Flair's tagalong

I won't cosign on Perfect's viewpoint that you have, but Buff and Steiner were delightful together.

Buff is great in all forms, here's a little taste for people

 

[sora87]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7YI7ySPEb8

The poison has arrived!

 

[Deleted member 47027]

more nWo enjoyment

 

[BattleMonkey]

Don't forget the Head of Security of the nWo.

 

[Striker]

Heenan screwed up with that call.

I don't remember the entire details but commentary didn't know what was going on, either. I think only Eric and Hogan knew. So with the history of Heenan and the Hulk Hogan character from years back, it totally made sense for him to question why he was out there.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Or marry the boss's daughter


The Buff Bagwell/Scott Steiner promos were so popular that WCW let them spend as long as they liked on tv with them and come up with their own material

Mr Perfect's career highlights was those taped vignettes where he said one line and being Ric Flair's tagalong

You will stop impugning the name of Curt Hennig. To say nothing of his work in WWF, his stint in WCW gave us the greatest country song of all time.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

It's part of Heenan's shtick to just say nonsense like that to get a rise out of the other commentators/the audience at home. I'm sure no one watching at the time took his suggestion even the least bit seriously.

Heenan not trusting Hogan is like 10 years in the making for that moment. He was Hogan's JJ Jameson.

Agreed that NWO got stale because they refused to move on from it. You can only have so many ppvs end with them mobbing the ring, adding a new member, and spray painting the baby faces after a screw job.

Nash's logical break from Hogan should have been a complete face turn for the entire Wolfpac faction, and they should have dropped the NWO logo. Savage, Sting, and Luger never should have joined. Worst of all NWO politics ruined Goldberg.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

The thing is I dont remember half the members of NWO ever wrestling in matches. Like did Virgil or Ted Dibiase ever wrestle while in the NWO?

Ted was retired as an in-ring performer at that point so no, but Virgil (or Vincent, as he was called in WCW) was one of the poster boys of the nWo's "B-Team," aka. all the hanger-ons who had no business being in the stable beyond filling out matches on Thunder/Saturday Night/WorldWide and getting beat down by Sting or Goldberg.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Worst of all NWO politics ruined Goldberg.

Well, aside from the whole lack of talent thing and the only promo he could cut was "YOU'RE NEXT."

 

[crimzonflame]

Well, aside from the whole lack of talent thing and the only promo he could cut was "YOU'RE NEXT."

For real. I was the only one at school who fucking despised Goldberg. Goldberg getting tasered was the best thing to happen on Nitro in a long time.

 

[Sephzilla]

Heenan screwed up with that call.

No way, if anything Heenan implying Hogan was the third man made it seem less likely that Hogan would turn, because Heenan had been ragging on Hogan for years. So Heenan doing what he did was basically status quo. I think Heenan being silent or cheering Hogan against the Outsiders would have been infinitely more of a tipoff.

 

[KritaCal]

He had the stuff.

You damn right!

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Well, aside from the whole lack of talent thing and the only promo he could cut was "YOU'RE NEXT."

Doesn't negate the fact that Goldberg was mega-over at the time and WCW, instead of riding his popularity for as long as possible while preparing another new draw to take his place when he inevitably ran out of steam, kneecapped him because the old guard was afraid of losing their spots.

 

[CartridgeBlower]

The greatest payoff was Heenan being right the whole time.

HE WAS RIGHT THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME

his call was perfect. he was questioning EVERYONE throughout the entire broadcast. paranoid as fuck. you're DAMN RIGHT when hogan came out he was going to question which side he was on.

Yeah in the moment Heenan's call made sense. It's only when you rewatch it years later on a youtube video you're like 'ah, he spoils it.' But at the time he was ALWAYS saying shit like this, especially at Hogan. It worked. If he HADN'T questioned Hogan when he came out then it would have been obvious because he was questioning everyone.

 

[Sephzilla]

The nWo tasering Goldberg bugs me a lot less than Sting not going over Hollywood Hogan clean as a whistle. Sting should have beat Hogan and that should have killed the nWo

 

[mreddie]

The nWo tasering Goldberg bugs me a lot less than Sting not going over Hollywood Hogan clean as a whistle. Sting should have beat Hogan and that should have killed the nWo

That was the biggest problem, they didn't know when to end it, they kept it going until 99 only for Russo to bring it back again in 2000 but Hart got hurt.

 

[Juicy Bob]

The nWo theme is the single greatest piece of music ever recorded in human history.

 

[Couleurs]

My memory is a bit hazy, but was the Latino World Order an official spin-off like nWo Japan was? Because they were cool as hell. Eddie Guerrero, La Parka, El Dandy and probably like every other luchadore except Ron Mysterio.

 

[Burai]

Yeah in the moment Heenan's call made sense. It's only when you rewatch it years later on a youtube video you're like 'ah, he spoils it.' But at the time he was ALWAYS saying shit like this, especially at Hogan. It worked. If he HADN'T questioned Hogan when he came out then it would have been obvious because he was questioning everyone.

If anything, it was Schiavone that spoils it by not being more robust with his comeback. But if the story about both commentators being in the dark is true that would explain why he merely shrugs off Heenan's trolling.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Doesn't negate the fact that Goldberg was mega-over at the time and WCW, instead of riding his popularity for as long as possible while preparing another new draw to take his place when he inevitably ran out of steam, kneecapped him because the old guard was afraid of losing their spots.

By mega-over, you might mean the "Goldberg" chants were piped in, possibly to drown out the competing chants of "Goldberg sucks."

Allegedly.

 

[StoopKid]

The nWo theme is the single greatest piece of music ever recorded in human history.

Wolfpac theme >>

 

[Randolph Freelander]

My memory is a bit hazy, but was the Latino World Order an official spin-off like nWo Japan was?

No, that was Guerrero's own thing, a protest stable.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

The nWo tasering Goldberg bugs me a lot less than Sting not going over Hollywood Hogan clean as a whistle. Sting should have beat Hogan and that should have killed the nWo

Pretty much. They might have gotten another year at most out of the slow disintegration of the nWo, but Starrcade '7 should have been the beginning of the end of the angle. The nWo were invaders bent on destroying WCW and rebuilding it in their own image. With that, there's only tow outcomes to the storyline: Either the nWo succeed and the show becomes one giant circle-jerk as nWo guys destroy local jobbers in empty arenas, or WCW expels the invaders in a moment of well-earned catharsis. If you don't eventually reach one of these two points, eventually you'll reach a point where you're just treading water because you don't want to change the status quo, leading to viewers tuning out because they're never gonna get the conclusion they want.

By mega-over, you might mean the "Goldberg" chants were piped in, possibly to drown out the competing chants of "Goldberg sucks."

Allegedly.

To quote DDP, there's no way they did that, because that would take a level of competence that WCW just didn't have.

 

[Juicy Bob]

Wolfpac theme >>

The Wolfpac theme sounds like one of those backing tracks that's pre-loaded on an old Casio keyboard.

 

[Sephzilla]

The nWo theme is the single greatest piece of music ever recorded in human history.

Wolfpac theme >>

These aren't even the best themes in wrestling history. Respect the real GOAT theme

 

[norm9]

Don't forget, NWO also killed the Four Horsemen by having Mr Perfect reveal he was NWO.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

These aren't even the best themes in wrestling history. Respect the real GOAT theme

That's not even Stone Cold's best theme, ffs.

Don't forget, NWO also killed the Four Horsemen by having Mr Perfect reveal he was NWO.

Pretty sure that was actually Jeff Jarrett.

 

[Sephzilla]

That's not even Stone Cold's best theme, ffs.

As a wrestling theme I prefer Austin's normal theme. As a song, the Disturbed version wins out

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

These aren't even the best themes in wrestling history. Respect the real GOAT theme

This is true.

That's not even Stone Cold's best theme, ffs.

No. The lyric version ruined Stone Cold's music. Took the greatest theme of all time and turned into angsty teen metal.

The best song belongs to HHH.

 

[CharminUltra]

I've never been into Wrestling, but I find it really interesting. Is WWE Network for $10/m worth it? Will I be able to see all these super historical fights?

 

[Deleted member 47027]

We have a nice nWo topic here and some weak-ass piece of trash shows up showing off Stone Cold

Get that shit out of here. This is for the nWo

I've never been into Wrestling, but I find it really interesting. Is WWE Network for $10/m worth it? Will I be able to see all these super historical fights?

Definitely worth it, they have all the WCW Nitros on there, ever, and PPVs, and a lot of original content. Free month, first month, too.

 

[Sephzilla]

We have a nice nWo topic here and some weak-ass piece of trash shows up showing off Stone Cold

Get that shit out of here. This is for the nWo

 

[Khaliss]

That is sad beyond words.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

No seriously Sephzilla

Stone Cold has no place here. Get his shit out of here. Give us some meaningful, good posts.

 

[Sephzilla]

No seriously Sephzilla

Stone Cold has no place here. Get his shit out of here. Give us some meaningful, good posts.

Get out of here with your condescending crap. Only reason I even brought him up was because people were talking about GOAT theme songs, plus I already contributed some posts regarding the nWo itself. Only person who seems to have an issue with it is you. So, how about you actually give us some good meaningful posts instead of shitting on someone else's posts that nobody else seems to have a problem with?

 

[Lothar]

I've never been into Wrestling, but I find it really interesting. Is WWE Network for $10/m worth it? Will I be able to see all these super historical fights?

Most of us are used to paying $40-$50 for one show. The network is $10 for all of them.

It's hard to believe you wouldn't find a lot of entertainment on there to even if you don't know much about wrestling. It's all so wildly different. And even if you find nothing on there you like, it's just $10.

 

[BadAss2961]

20 years later and wwe still living off the fumes with low rent "invasion" angles.

Looking back it's sort of crazy how short lived the "good" nwo era was. By about 6 months in it had run its course but the WCW milked the shit out of it.

I remember it being absolute gold all the way to Starrcade '97. Things didn't tail off til after that.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Get out of here with your condescending crap. Only reason I even brought him up was because people were talking about GOAT theme songs, plus I already contributed some posts regarding the nWo itself. Only person who seems to have an issue with it is you. So, how about you actually give us some good meaningful posts instead of shitting on someone else's posts that nobody else seems to have a problem with?

no need to get hot about it

watch some wcw and let tony schiavone take you to another place

"hulk hogan you can go to hell"

 

[Kuroyume]

I miss WCW crowds. Thowing shit into the ring was a shitty thing to do but it made the shows feel more lively. More intense. Now WWE shows look dead 90% of the time.

 

[HyperCroutons]

I loved the NWO, mid 90s WcW was the bomb! I always found it funny that they tried to make hulk hogan a bad-guy with hollywood hogan but never really suceeded. Hulk was more a anti-hero than villain during the NWO stretch.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Incredible moment.

 

[Wiseblood]

That is sad beyond words.

Don't feel sorry for him. He stole a tenner from OSW Review's Mr. OOC.

 

[Tom Nook]

Bleacher Report Ranks Every NWO Member Ever

Spoiler

40. and 39. Ron and Don Harris
38. Horace Hogan
37. David Flair
36. Booker T
35. Michael Wallstreet (IRS)
34. Samantha (Torrie Wilson)
33. Big Bubba Rogers (Big Boss Man)
32. Dusty Rhodes
31. Shawn Michaels
30. Stevie Ray
29. Disco Inferno
28. Lex Luger
27. Brian Adams
26. Jeff Jarrett (LOL)
25. Nick Patrick (NWO's own personal ref)
24. Masahiro Chono
23. Miss Elizabeth
22. Scott Norton
21. The Disciple (Beefcake)
20. Louie Spicolli
19. Bret Hart
18. Rick Rude
17. Sting
16. Ted DiBiase
15. Fake Sting
14. Vincent
13. The Great Muta
12. Curt Hennig
11. Buff Bagwell
10. Dennis Rodman
9. Syxx (XPAC)
8. Konnan
7. The Giant (Big Show)
6. Scott Steiner
5. Randy Savage
4. Eric Bischoff
3. Scott Hall
2. Hulk Hogan
1. Kevin Nash

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Bleacher Report Ranks Every NWO Member Ever

Spoiler

40. and 39. Ron and Don Harris
38. Horace Hogan
37. David Flair
36. Booker T
35. Michael Wallstreet (IRS)
34. Samantha (Torrie Wilson)
33. Big Bubba Rogers (Big Boss Man)
32. Dusty Rhodes
31. Shawn Michaels
30. Stevie Ray
29. Disco Inferno
28. Lex Luger
27. Brian Adams
26. Jeff Jarrett (LOL)
25. Nick Patrick (NWO's own personal ref)
24. Masahiro Chono
23. Miss Elizabeth
22. Scott Norton
21. The Disciple (Beefcake)
20. Louie Spicolli
19. Bret Hart
18. Rick Rude
17. Sting
16. Ted DiBiase
15. Fake Sting
14. Vincent
13. The Great Muta
12. Curt Hennig
11. Buff Bagwell
10. Dennis Rodman
9. Syxx (XPAC)
8. Konnan
7. The Giant (Big Show)
6. Scott Steiner
5. Randy Savage
4. Eric Bischoff
3. Scott Hall
2. Hulk Hogan
1. Kevin Nash

Disciple should be near the bottom. Rodman higher. Syxx lower. Hennig higher. Norton higher. Hogan should be #1. And Nick Patrick deserves higher.

Konnan LOWER

 

[Sephzilla]

Bleacher Report Ranks Every NWO Member Ever

Spoiler

40. and 39. Ron and Don Harris
38. Horace Hogan
37. David Flair
36. Booker T
35. Michael Wallstreet (IRS)
34. Samantha (Torrie Wilson)
33. Big Bubba Rogers (Big Boss Man)
32. Dusty Rhodes
31. Shawn Michaels
30. Stevie Ray
29. Disco Inferno
28. Lex Luger
27. Brian Adams
26. Jeff Jarrett (LOL)
25. Nick Patrick (NWO's own personal ref)
24. Masahiro Chono
23. Miss Elizabeth
22. Scott Norton
21. The Disciple (Beefcake)
20. Louie Spicolli
19. Bret Hart
18. Rick Rude
17. Sting
16. Ted DiBiase
15. Fake Sting
14. Vincent
13. The Great Muta
12. Curt Hennig
11. Buff Bagwell
10. Dennis Rodman
9. Syxx (XPAC)
8. Konnan
7. The Giant (Big Show)
6. Scott Steiner
5. Randy Savage
4. Eric Bischoff
3. Scott Hall
2. Hulk Hogan
1. Kevin Nash

Spoiler

Syxx

being in the top 10 is absolutely disgusting

 

[Sanjuro]

Number one on that list is gross. They would have never been relevant without number two.

 

[Sephzilla]

I have no problem with that top 3.

Spoiler

Hogan turning

is what got them the attention but honestly

Spoiler

Hogan

nearly ruined the angle by turning it into "another wresting angle". The style of the nWo promos vids basically saved it.