That moment when you realized the Monday Night Wars was over.

[mcellas]

This was the last Monday when i would flip the tv back and forth
I stopped watching for a while until i heard that Booker T won the WCW Championship and I watched WCW just to celebrate black excellence

 

[CJ]

David Arquette.

 

[puppetmaster]

i wanna say 1999 but really is was more like the fall of 98

I hate to say it but this.


When it started to become apparent the nWo as a whole wasn't really going anywhere, at the time it was hard to see that but looking back it sucks because I loved that damn era. the wolfpac was fun don't get me wrong but the whole Hollywood nWo v Wolfpac was just wrong from the start, fans didn't want to boo Hall or see him and Nash feud etc. you just could tell WCW was starting to become #2 clear as day

Meanwhile the WWE was just churing out star after star after star in 1998. Some of the pops Val Venis used to get were even



-P-

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

I KNEW IT WAS OVER WHEN THEY STARTED TO PUT TITLE BELTS ON VANILLA MIDGETS, BROTHER!

 

[who_better_than_me]

When juvetude starts calling himself the juice and copying the rock. WCW had two ppl imitating the rock at the same damn time

 

[seanjohn21276]

This moment sealed it for me as far as the Monday Night Wars being over

 

[No_bammer_weed]

when Hogan started talkin about "yappapi" strap matches n sht. Im like this show done turned into mystery science theater. WCW in 2000 was completely unwatchable...

 

[seanjohn21276]

Although this moment ain't that far behind

 

[CM_Burns]

when Hogan started talkin about "yappapi" strap matches n sht. Im like this show done turned into mystery science theater. WCW in 2000 was completely unwatchable...

The fukkery was unmatched for whatever that's worth, and Scott Steiner's title run too. I wasn't watching at the time though, those whole 3 hour shows were probably garbage.

Fall of 98 they still had some big stars and were competing as a credible #2. It was done being a competition a few weeks into 99. IMO the finger poke actually could've worked and definetely didn't kill anything instantly. What did kill WCW for anyone who flipped between both, was running Hogan vs Flair main event programs in early 99 with David Flair heel turns, against WWF doing Austin vs Corporation and Rock vs Mankind. Goldberg and Nash were damn near Austin/Rock level at the time, and in 6 months they wouldn't be close.

Then by the end of 99 it was obvious WCW was never coming back like WWF did.

 

[HipHopStan]

WCW Stans knew this company was fukked ​

Even Kurt Russell knew Arquette's victory was bullshyt.

 

[ThatTruth777]

when they changed the WCW set from the classic look to that sliding door bullshyt and when the shows were being held I want to say outdoors but not sure

 

[HamAndEgger]

I think during the time when the Radicals (Guerrero, Benoit, Malenko, Saturn) debuted, the WWE was making the turn. Also during the peak of Vince's heel run, Stone Cold / Rock / HHH fueds, Biker Undertaker, the comedy with Angle / Stone Cold

Goldberg was WCW's last big thing and once Nash ended that, it was over. The company got bought out by '01, I was done with WCW by beginning of 2000. Crazy enough, the day I actually went to tune into seeing what was going on in WCW, Schiovanne is like "Vince McMahon has purchased WCW" with me like

Seriously though, we'll never see Pro Wrestling at that level ever again. The Monday Night Wars were Wrestling's Peak.

 

[HamAndEgger]

People sh*t on Warrior's debut in WCW, but nobody can front like they weren't when he debut. Back then too the internet wasn't cluttered with spoilers so you still kinda were like "Is he really showing up?". Also after WCW dealt with that Renegade copycat sh*t back in the early 90s, at least for me, I'd never thought I'd see Hogan and Warrior in the same ring together. Now, Warrior DID kinda go off on a tangent at points, but he did drop some Ether on Hogan. But what's also stupid on Hogan / Bischoff's part was them making an issue about Warrior talking about beating Hogan at Mania VI thus losing the stigma to their Halloween Havoc match. But...why the hell did they think people were cheering Warrior like that if he DIDN'T beat Hogan before? Like...who the f*ck didn't know that?

 

[HipHopStan]

"That'll put some butts in the seats."

About 600k, Tony.

 

[The Dogg]

When WCW started doing WWF people finishes (Booker T's Book end, Stevie Ray's Flap Jack, Disco Inferno's Chartbuster/Last Dance, Sean O'Haire's Seanton Bomb)