One more "What if" question (I dont think anymore made this a topic)

[Fox]

Originally Posted by Rollermacka I still think the WCW product was still very good when Hart had to retire as an active star in Jan 2000. I did like the Hulk Hogan Vs Kevin Nash at Road Wild 1999, it had a very "classic" wrestling feel to it. I knew going into the match it wasn't going to be a technical or high flying match up, it was more based on showmanship. I think that a match between Hogan and Hart in 2000 could had still been well choreographed and hyped up. When Brett had to pull out of Sold Out is considered the first "domino" in the eventual downfall of WCW. Russo was fired and Sullivan was promoted to head booker that caused several superstars to leave which caused the product to suffer. When Russo was brought back he was given full creative control and that's when we got the shenanigans that we remember from the end of WCW.

Did you watch the match in an alternate universe? I remember Hogan vs Nash from Road Wild 1999 very clearly, firstly because I paid for the match, and secondly because it was one of the slowest, most boring, plodding, God awful matches I've ever seen in my life. REALLY?

And Bret Hart pulling out of Souled Out is not one of the first dominos of the eventual downfall - not even close. Eddie, Benoit, Saturn and Malenko leaving the very next day is one of them, but even then, the company was crumbling LONG before then and the backstage situation and creative situation was in shambles way before Bret even got his main event push. The first real marker of the fall of WCW was the Sting/Hogan fiasco of a match at Starrcade, where Hogan proved once again that he doesn't know what's good for business, and then again the following year at Starrcade when Nash beat an incredibly over, not-ready-to-end-the-streak Goldberg, and of course the Fingerpoke of Doom two weeks later.

[Rollermacka]

Originally Posted by Fox Did you watch the match in an alternate universe? I remember Hogan vs Nash from Road Wild 1999 very clearly, firstly because I paid for the match, and secondly because it was one of the slowest, most boring, plodding, God awful matches I've ever seen in my life. REALLY?

Well, diffrent strokes, diffrent folks. I was 11 when I saw it the first time so that might be why I liked it then. Even now, its no where near the top of my greatest matches of all time lists but I still enjoy it.