Do we give the NWO storyline far too much credit/attention than it truly deserves?

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To expand on a point I made in a previous thread:

Sure the NWO storyline was great, it cemented Hall and Nash amongst the iconic stars of 90s wrestling and showed us that Hogan could play the face and villain superbly. Furthermore it was a ratings winner for the WCW in the Monday Night Wars and supposedly almost drove Vince and the WWE out of business (according to speculation).

But my question is, do we give it far too much praise than it deserved? I mean it seems to be the only thing Bischoff ever rambles on about in interviews and Scot Hall too never seems to have let go of the NWO storyline. Hogan and Nash at least invovled themselves in so many other memorable feuds, storylines etc.

So a couple of top stars turn bad and beat everyone up and pretend to run the show, wow big deal.

But you take that away what was WCW really left with in the mid 90s? Even making the likes of Goldberg and Crow-Sting and Bret Hart and Jeff Jarrett were only as a result of the NWO.


Don't get me wrong I never hated the storyline but I just feel it was the only thing ever going for 90s WCW and the way Bischoff talks about it in every interview since, it's almost as if we're still in 1996.

That was WCW's fault, it couldn't let go of the NWO hence the fingerpoke of doom etc.

Thoughts.....