Creep wit me as I crawl through the Last Days of WCW Nitro

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Im under the impression that the highest rated segment was the Mick Foley Rock This is your life skit.

Either way people forget why Raw in the attitude era was ratings. If you think back what were some amazing matches back then on Raw??? Cant really think of any. But what does come to mind is all the crazy shyt that went down with Austin, Vince and all them. When I sit to think about matches, first thinng that comes to my mind is Shawn jobbing to Hunter for the Euro belt, and Chyna uppercutting people in the nuts. Nowadays its just long ass matches with commercial breaks in between and the ratings are in the toilet. The 'E is sitting on mad money, yet they cant do crazy shyt anymore like Austin driving random vehicles down to the ring? Cant destroy fancy cars anymore? They dont even spend money on pyro nowadays. Its not a spectacle anymore. Its just for wrestling nerds to give out star ratings to matches.
 

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TSC we gotta do a watch session with either an episode of WCW Nitro or a ppv from the year 2000... maybe Bash at the Beach where Russo gave that grand speech of calling Hogan a "bald headed politician"

TBH the WCW PPV's of that time were horrible and only are worth watching for the fukkery and run ins. The Nitro's I've been watching lately are wayyy more fun to watch. Match quality at these WCW PPV's are borderline terrible. Nitro barely has any matches and when they do its usually some insane hardcore match.
 

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Im under the impression that the highest rated segment was the Mick Foley Rock This is your life skit.

Either way people forget why Raw in the attitude era was ratings. If you think back what were some amazing matches back then on Raw??? Cant really think of any. But what does come to mind is all the crazy shyt that went down with Austin, Vince and all them. When I sit to think about matches, first thinng that comes to my mind is Shawn jobbing to Hunter for the Euro belt, and Chyna uppercutting people in the nuts. Nowadays its just long ass matches with commercial breaks in between and the ratings are in the toilet. The 'E is sitting on mad money, yet they cant do crazy shyt anymore like Austin driving random vehicles down to the ring? Cant destroy fancy cars anymore? They dont even spend money on pyro nowadays. Its not a spectacle anymore. Its just for wrestling nerds to give out star ratings to matches.

Austin/HHH vs Jericho/Benoit in 2001 and this 10 man tag match with (I think) The Radicalz/HHH/X-Pac vs Rikishi/Too Cool/Rock from 2000, when Kane came back with Paul Bearer are two that I can think off
 

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The last four months of WCW was actually pretty good. Steiner was a good heel champion with Booker T chasing after him. They were starting to push younger talent like Elix Skipper, Mike Sanders, Romeo, the Yung Dragons, the guys in 3 Count, etc.

They had a tournament for the crusierweight tag champions during their last days. They were doubling down on one of the things that made them pop. If WCW would have survived, they would have ate well on new talent that emerged in the mid to late 2000's. All of the toxic old dogs like Nash and Hogan would have gone back to WWE anyway. WCW would have had a real chance to start fresh.

It makes WCW's collapse that much more heartbreaking in hindsight.
 

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How can anyone feel nostalgic for their final days? They deserved to die by that point. Last two years were horrendous.
 

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This episode was actually pretty hype. It was almost line blurring to have 2 prominent bookers on TV, and working together. I'm not really sure about stripping the belts, as they could have just built feuds around the current title holders. All of the New Blood/Vet matchups were no-brainers (Sting/Vampiro) (Flair/Douglas) (Luger/Bagwell) except for Hogan/Kidman too much of a size mis-match.

They honestly had a very good storyline setup, and deeper than that, a system in place to change the culture of the roster and force guys to pass the torch. But we all know how the creative execution and also politics made that idea turn out....
 
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