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Originally Posted by CosaNostra
Who said anything about it being soley Goldberg's fault? Well, whatever. 
No.........the reason why WCW "folded" came long before Hall, Hogan, Nash and Flair left the WCW. The death knell was that episode of Monday Night Raw where The New Age Outlaws joined D-Generation X. That was also the start of the epic feud between "evil promoter" Vince McMahon and Stone Cold Steve Austin. For the first time in 18 months, the WWF beat the weekly WCW Monday Nitro in the ratings. And thus "Goldberg, Nash, and Hall" as you have stated, didn't win anything, let alone "the Monday Night wars for WCW". |
WCW began beating out WWF every Monday night with the debut of the NWO for something like 70 consecutive weeks. I don't have the exact figure, because it doesn't matter. The point is, the NWO and Goldberg, among other things, kept fans interested enough that they preferred WCW over WWF. If you say otherwise, that's a perfectly valid opinion, but I would have to disagree. Goldberg in particular had a following at that time that was bordering on absurd, which is not an opinion but based on merchandise sales and marketing. To say that the NWO (which on THIS BOARD has been repeatedly argued to be one of the greatest, if not THE Greatest stable, ever) and Goldberg didn't contribute to this success is, in my opinion, not a fair judgement.
Just because WWF eventually purchased the WCW does not mean that WCW did not win the Monday Night Wars for dozens of consecutive weeks...just that the WCW product became stale after a while and they missed their opportunity to engage the mainstream fan. By the time they found working solutions, like champions such as Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, and Booker T, it was too late as WWF had a larger following, so the product was doomed.