View Full Version : Who Did WCW Let Go // or didn't use right??
BodySlam
02-27-2009, 06:17 PM
Who Did WCW Let Go // or didn't use right?? and went to WWE and made it big after the switch!!!!
i can think of:::::::
Edge (wasn't edge at the time)
Triple H (wasn't triple h at the time)
Chris Jericho
Rey Mysterio
dats four i can think of so far is there anymore???
Nark Order
02-27-2009, 06:21 PM
Ummm.... Steve Austin?
Nark Order
02-27-2009, 06:23 PM
The list goes on for awhile. They were kind of known for that stuff. Mick Foley comes to mind.
Who did WCW let go?
The entire roster.
BodySlam
02-27-2009, 06:41 PM
NO! before they were sold.............when they were still a legit company
Gertner
02-27-2009, 06:47 PM
pretty much their entire mid card.
Kane86
02-27-2009, 06:49 PM
Vampiro
Kane86
02-27-2009, 07:06 PM
Mike Awesome
I would dare say that Rey was used best in WCW. He beat main eventers and didn't even need his best friend to die for it to happen.
thedamndest
02-27-2009, 07:34 PM
The Radicalz
The Fonz
02-27-2009, 07:46 PM
The "Mean Mark" Undertaker, The Radicalz, Jericho, Austin, Bret Hart (that one's more or less WCW fucked him up), and some ECW guys I can't think of right now.
BobBitchen
02-27-2009, 07:57 PM
Who Did WCW Let Go // or didn't use right?? and went to WWE and made it big after the switch!!!!
i can think of:::::::
Edge (wasn't edge at the time)
Triple H (wasn't triple h at the time)
Chris Jericho
Rey Mysterio
dats four i can think of so far is there anymore???
I don't remember HHH or edge in WCW. I thought they had always been with WWE/WWF.
Jeritron
02-27-2009, 07:59 PM
Foley hasn't been mentioned?
Shadow
02-27-2009, 08:01 PM
Everyone.
Who they did use right would be a much shorter list I think.
Tazz Dan
02-27-2009, 08:20 PM
Bret Hart
:shifty:
Triple Naitch
02-27-2009, 08:54 PM
Disco Inferno
Nicky Fives
02-27-2009, 08:58 PM
Austin, Taker, HHH, Jericho, Pillman, Waltman, Benoit, Guerrero, Malenko, Saturn, Awesome... the list goes on an on
Edge doesn't reallly count considering he only wrestled like 3 matches as a jobber....
Storer50
02-27-2009, 09:54 PM
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Hence triple h in wcw
Lock Jaw
02-27-2009, 10:53 PM
Norman Smiley.
BigDaddyCool
02-27-2009, 10:58 PM
Everyone. List done.
They misused everyone seriously. Some guys they over used, and everyone else the under used. Simple as that, there were breif periods where the booked someone right in a sea of poor and repitive booking.
Mr. Nerfect
02-28-2009, 01:07 AM
It's very easily (and technically correct) to point out that WCW fucked up with so many guys. But here are a few that they really missed the boat with, in my opinion:
Bret Hart
From everything I've read about Bret Hart in WCW, they really didn't have a clue what to do with him. He parted ways with Vince McMahon, and then signed with Turner, and they were like "What the fuck do we do now?" Yeah, he got two World Title reigns there, but considered how good Bret Hart was, they really didn't utilise him to maximum potential. Pretty much what TNA has done with every big signing they've made save for Christian Cage.
Sting
Yeah, WCW also "made" him. But one thing that cannot be forgiven is the big fuck up known as "WCW Starrcade 1998." That alone was WCW putting its foot in its own mouth, and fucking up something that should have been so clean-cut. Sting would go on to become an icon of the business and whatnot, so he wasn't completely screwed over by this, but it was horrible and not the correct use of a cash machine.
Chris Jericho
On one hand, WCW used Jericho beautifully. Well, they let Jericho be Jericho, and it was a beautiful thing. On the other, when Jericho did flirt with climbing the ranks in WCW, to my understanding, he got nowhere. Guys like Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero and even, to a degree, Perry Saturn got a chance to work the mid-card a lot. Jericho only really flirted with that scene. Jericho was impressive enough that when he did jump to the WWE, he got a massive reaction and was allowed to debut in a segment with The Rock. In WCW, Jericho never properly even interacted with main eventers.
Steve Austin and Brian Pillman
To my understanding, WCW criminally underused these men both as singles stars, and as a tag team, and they were only ever allowed to climb the ranks when they left WCW for the WWE. It's made especially poignant by the now famous incident where Eric Bischoff told Steve Austin he would never be anything, completely underlying WCW's intention to not do anything with him. This wasn't even a "paying your dues" thing.
Hollywood Hogan
In the later stages of WCW, anyway. Hogan also mishandled himself. Basically, by allowing Hogan the rope that they did, WCW fucked themselves over -- but it also wasn't using Hogan right, because it was using Hogan how Hogan wanted to be used. If Hogan were told to shut the fuck up and get in line, he could have been a far bigger asset for the company than he turned out to be.
The biggest thing that stands out about my memories of WCW mis-using Hogan was when he came out on Nitro after losing the belt, and actually looked naked without the damn thing.
When a superstar looks weird without a belt, it's probably a bad sign.
Jeritron
02-28-2009, 04:00 PM
When a superstar looks weird without a belt, it's probably a bad sign.
Goldberg
Hanso Amore
02-28-2009, 04:13 PM
It's very easily (and technically correct) to point out that WCW fucked up with so many guys. But here are a few that they really missed the boat with, in my opinion:
Bret Hart
From everything I've read about Bret Hart in WCW, they really didn't have a clue what to do with him. He parted ways with Vince McMahon, and then signed with Turner, and they were like "What the fuck do we do now?" Yeah, he got two World Title reigns there, but considered how good Bret Hart was, they really didn't utilise him to maximum potential. Pretty much what TNA has done with every big signing they've made save for Christian Cage.
Sting
Yeah, WCW also "made" him. But one thing that cannot be forgiven is the big fuck up known as "WCW Starrcade 1998." That alone was WCW putting its foot in its own mouth, and fucking up something that should have been so clean-cut. Sting would go on to become an icon of the business and whatnot, so he wasn't completely screwed over by this, but it was horrible and not the correct use of a cash machine.
Chris Jericho
On one hand, WCW used Jericho beautifully. Well, they let Jericho be Jericho, and it was a beautiful thing. On the other, when Jericho did flirt with climbing the ranks in WCW, to my understanding, he got nowhere. Guys like Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero and even, to a degree, Perry Saturn got a chance to work the mid-card a lot. Jericho only really flirted with that scene. Jericho was impressive enough that when he did jump to the WWE, he got a massive reaction and was allowed to debut in a segment with The Rock. In WCW, Jericho never properly even interacted with main eventers.
Steve Austin and Brian Pillman
To my understanding, WCW criminally underused these men both as singles stars, and as a tag team, and they were only ever allowed to climb the ranks when they left WCW for the WWE. It's made especially poignant by the now famous incident where Eric Bischoff told Steve Austin he would never be anything, completely underlying WCW's intention to not do anything with him. This wasn't even a "paying your dues" thing.
Hollywood Hogan
In the later stages of WCW, anyway. Hogan also mishandled himself. Basically, by allowing Hogan the rope that they did, WCW fucked themselves over -- but it also wasn't using Hogan right, because it was using Hogan how Hogan wanted to be used. If Hogan were told to shut the fuck up and get in line, he could have been a far bigger asset for the company than he turned out to be.
BIGGER ASSET?
Hogan took that fucking company from shit to Number one. He was the biggest asset they had. Hogan played a part in the end, but in the end, the guys runnings the books spent more than they made, and that was the death of WCW.
Mooияakeя™
02-28-2009, 05:51 PM
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Hence triple h in wcw
Fucking hell. Seriously. Looking at this. Evan bourne could become a powerful figure within a company one day.
Krimzon7
03-01-2009, 05:14 AM
They Misused RAVEN! The situation was so bad, that Raven walked out.
Jeritron
03-01-2009, 05:21 AM
They did use him well for a time period though, if I recall correctly. On the whole, I would say Raven was used much better in WCW than WWE. For what thats worth
They did use him well for a time period though, if I recall correctly. On the whole, I would say Raven was used much better in WCW than WWE. For what thats worth
Agreed.
#BROKEN Hasney
03-01-2009, 05:30 AM
Yeah, when he came in and got his flock and everything like that it was awesome. I had never seen ECW at the time and I loved Raven in WCW.
Then they teased turning him back to Johnny Polo, going shopping with Kanyon with preppy threads and finally that whole storyline was dropped.
Skippord
03-01-2009, 05:37 AM
LA FUCKING PARKA
Mooияakeя™
03-01-2009, 11:26 AM
BIGGER ASSET?
Hogan took that fucking company from shit to Number one. He was the biggest asset they had.
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