The company overpaid some wrestlers and from a financial standpoint, it should've died many years ago before it actually did. The higher-ups in Turner Broadcasting wanted to shut down the company but Ted Turner wasn't letting that happen. Under new management, WCW could've been successful as Eric had planned to fix every mistake the promotion made previously.
Many wrestlers testified against him, and it looked to be a bad situation for the boss. But Vincent Kennedy McMahon shocked the whole world when he was ruled innocent of all charges. Eric Bischoff never cared about creating talents for the future. But fans wanted to see fresh faces in WCW.
The young talented stars were almost always overlooked. But things got out of control during one episode of Raw that almost saw the show getting canceled by the USA Network. Steve Austin invaded Brian Pillman's home one night and the latter pulled out a gun.
Many parents weren't happy with the incident and the Network considered canceling the show or at the very least, give it a different time slot. Fortunately, none of this happened and when ratings started to grow, USA didn't care about complaints anymore. It seems anyone looking to join the NWO could get in.
Vince Russo is arguably the most hated man in professional wrestling. He is the main culprit wrestling fans and enthusiasts tend to blame when they mention the dying days of World Championship Wrestling. The former WWE writer's one-year tenure with the company was its lowest creative point, hitting rock bottom when he took over as the match booker.
Russo's nonsensical storylines and screwy finishes felt like they'd been taken from a National Lampoon movie take, for instance, the ghastly Viagra On a Pole match. When he wasn't writing terrible angles for incredible performers, he was creating chaotic scenes backstage through manipulation and antagonization. With fan interest dwindling and his roster depleted by Turner and Bischoff, it looked like McMahon was down for the count.
McMahon took a page out of his competitor's book. He loosened the restrictions on his superstars and allowed them and his programming to be more in tune with the in-your-face shock culture of the '90s.
Comic fans were largely disappointed with the screen adaptation of Taskmaster, but chances are we haven't seen the real character yet. With the more recent headlines surrounding the emcee, it's felt like DaBaby has finally done something he can't finagle out of. Stunt Casting WCW's reliance on stars from other mediums of entertainment helped garner viewership from casual fans and people who were completely unfamiliar with pro wrestling.
Some of those promotions don't even exist anymore. Jericho began his professional wrestling career back in , before getting his big break in when he got the opportunity to wrestle for ECW. After one year with the promotion, Jericho caught the attention of World Championship Wrestling WCW , who used to be neck-and-neck with the WWE as one of the biggest professional wrestling powerhouses in the world, who he signed with in Was this supposed to make us feel sorry for Buff and make us want to see him beat the crap out of Kanyon?
Not only is Jim Ross considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestling announcers in history, but the impersonation was not necessary in the slightest, and irked a lot of fans of WCW at the time. WrestleMania VI's main event between Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior took place in when both men were in their prime, so the wrestling action was much faster and crisp. Now, imagine them trying to have the same match in — well, why do you have to imagine it, it actually happened! When Ultimate Warrior arrived in WCW in he immediately reignited his feud with Hulk Hogan, but instead of it being a crowd-pleaser, the entire feud did not make much sense.
Take the picture above for instance, with Warrior appearing in a mirror to taunt Hogan. If Hogan was going crazy and he was the only one seeing Warrior, why was the audience able to see him too in the mirror? WCW logic for you. I get it, product placement is necessary on television to secure money from advertisers, but did WCW have to take it this far? Did he really have to make an appearance on camera during a wrestling show?
Not only that, but he used his super strength to rip the steel bars off of a cage that Sting was trapped in! How incredible! Or, is it just incredibly strange and did not have a place on a wrestling show designed to feature other things than a robotic police officer? There are certain instances in wrestling where fans are not entirely certain if what they are witnessing is a work fake or a shoot real , and WCW was chalk-full of moments like this.
Instead of wrestling in a match that fans had paid their money to see, Jeff Jarrett laid down in the center of the ring allowing Hogan to place his boot on him for the win. Sometimes it appears WCW saw a sure-fire way of making money as a problem that needed to be fixed immediately. One of their only true home-grown stars that WCW could stake claim to was Bill Goldberg, who fans absolutely went crazy over.
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