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Old 12-19-2006, 05:07 PM   #1
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OK, so we're actually saying that we knew for sure that WCW was going to go way of the dinosaur? I don't think so.
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Old 12-19-2006, 05:25 PM   #2
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I can honestly say that I didn't know they were screwed until Shane walked out on the last Nitro. I was Nitro faithful and hoping til the bitter end that something would keep it going. Maybe it's all the drugs/booze , but I don't ever remember thinking WCW would ever belly up. They were a staple of wrestling for decades!

I will say though that I flipped channels a whole hell of alot during the Russo era ...so thinking back, that would be as close as I could feel to them being "screwed" I guess.
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Old 12-19-2006, 06:31 PM   #3
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They were a staple of wrestling for decades!
Uh...WCW was first a NWA TV show in late 1990 not becoming an actual stand alone promotion until 1991...and then folded in 2001.

How do you get "Decades" from that?
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Old 12-19-2006, 07:41 PM   #4
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Uh...WCW was first a NWA TV show in late 1990 not becoming an actual stand alone promotion until 1991...and then folded in 2001.

How do you get "Decades" from that?

Yeah, see my "drugs/booze" comment TO.

In my mind, I guess I link NWA/WCW together because that's what I always watched as a kid Saturdays on TBS. NWA World Championship Wrestling, which started being televised in the 70's. So to me, yes...they've been a staple of my wrestling world for "decades."

But, technically....I also watched Sunday's program on TBS that started in 1988 called "NWA Main Event", which was also the same year Ted Turner purchased the company, renamed it WCW and changed the shows title to "WCW Main Event or World Championship Wrestling: Sunday Edition." So technically that's "decades" for those keeping score along at home.

(In the event that none of the above is correct, then I give the fuck up and will do a public service announcement with RVD.)
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Old 12-19-2006, 05:21 PM   #5
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Nash vs Goldberg and Russo coming back in 99.
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Old 12-19-2006, 05:27 PM   #6
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If the question were asking "when did you realize WCW was going to start getting its ass kicked by WWE?" then I would suggest Austin's rise to the main event. But I was shocked as hell when I found out about WCW's sale (at the time to Fusient Media) because I didn't figure as bad as things were that it was going to come to that. Now that we have hindsight, sure, we can point fingers but at the time I don't think anyone really thought WCW was going bye-bye.
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Old 12-20-2006, 12:18 AM   #7
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When they signed the Hitman and didnt put him in the world title picture. When they let Jericho go. When they let Guerrero go. When they let Benoit go. Hell they were always screwed. They could have had one kick ass roster if they had used their talent right. Oh well.
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Old 12-19-2006, 08:13 PM   #8
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Vince isn't smart enough to pull something like that off. Russo or McMahon.
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Vince isn't smart enough to pull something like that off. Russo or McMahon.
McMahon is smart enough to know that screwing one of his biggest superstars would begin a huge boom.
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Old 12-20-2006, 12:15 AM   #10
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I would say I knew WCW was destined to fall or at least become fo below WWE sometime in late 98-early 99. It wasn't one moment that made me know this or anything the WCW did (yet), but just what WWE was doing. At sometime between November 98 and March 98 things really exploded. THey had been growing before them but this was the time frame when they really turned the corner and transcended wrestling. I still can't believe a time when Mick Foley was one of the most interesting people in the American eye and WWE was a hot commodity for 60 minutes, tv guide and virtually every form of media. Once that happened, I knew WCW was doomed.
Not because I was noticing how shitty they were getting, but because I wasn't noticing them at all. Nobody was. Then eventually you looked over at the car wreck and saw how bad it had gotten.
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