World War 3 or The Triple Cage or Faction Based PPVs
I did a poll earlier. Which organization was better. Although the WWF won, WCW had ALOT of votes.
WWF had the likes of The Rock, SCSA, and other great wrestlers.
Why was WCW so awesome?
World War 3 was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling. The pay-per-view's title also was the name of its signature match, a three-ring, sixty-man battle royal which was their answer to the World Wrestling Federation's Royal Rumble. The event took place every November. Like the Royal Rumble, the World War 3 match was held at the event that shared its name. All of the events took place at two venues, the Norfolk Scope and The Palace of Auburn Hills. In 1999, it was replaced by Mayhem.
The rules for a World War 3 match were similar to the rules for a Royal Rumble match. There were two major differences:
The WW3 match is played out in three rings, each holding twenty men.
All sixty men start the match at the same time (the same rules as a traditional battle royal).
The rules for the World War 3 match were:
All sixty men were randomly assigned a specific ring before the match began.
The match began with all sixty men, in three rings, when the bell rings.
A competitor must knock his opponent over the top rope of the ring, and both feet must touch the floor of the arena in order to eliminate said opponent from the match. This rule was amended in 1998 to allow for eliminations if a person leaves the ring in any way, in addition to counting pinfalls and submissions.
When thirty men remained, they moved to the central ring and the match continued. This rule was amended in 1998 so that the competitors had to move to the central ring once forty men had been eliminated.
The last man standing in the ring was declared the winner.
Was it because of World War 3?
The Triple Cage was used by the WCW only twice: first, at Slamboree 2000, Jeff Jarrett beat Diamond Dallas Page and David Arquette (defending the WCW World Heavyweight Championship) to win the title. In this match, Chris Kanyon was thrown from the roof of one of the cages, "paralyzing" him. The other, taking place on the September 4, 2000 episode of WCW Monday Nitro, was the 2000 edition of the WarGames match.
Ready To Rumble was inspired by this set up.
Was it because of The Triple Cage?
Or was it because of selected PPVs that were billed as NWO vs The WolfPac in it's titles.
It was a complete invasion of the factions.. Some might say that WCW went down due to too much stake and sight being put into the factions and not on the wrestling talent itself.
Why do you feel WCW was so successful and why hasn't WWE repeated any of their great successes while TNA continues on focusing on the same successes but not being as popular.
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