why did the NWO flopped big time in the WWE?

[thaKEAF]

Nobody wanted to boo Hoegan after all those years out of WWF. The rawness of his original WCW heel run was long gone by 2002. Hall and Nash were shells of themselves with injury/personal problems who definitely weren't gonna be going over the younger guys who had came up in the Attitude era. Overall, the WWE nWo faced the same problem that all the other versions of the nWo faced in WCW. It had been played out years before and the name/music/t-shirt couldn't force the same feeling people got back in the day.

 

[MewTwo]

nWo's WWE flop is to be blamed entirely on WWE creative team. Nothing else. The writing team screwed up many leftover WCW talents (i.e.: Goldberg, DDP, Dean Malenko) and ECW guys as well. I believe this was around the time Stephanie was in charge of things. Wrestling became uninteresting during this time.

 

[GreenGrass]

nWo's WWE flop is to be blamed entirely on WWE creative team. Nothing else. The writing team screwed up many leftover WCW talents (i.e.: Goldberg, DDP, Dean Malenko) and ECW guys as well. I believe this was around the time Stephanie was in charge of things. Wrestling became uninteresting during this time.

I thought that whole invasion angle was legit but they too messed that up as well. a lot of talent went under the radar and did not ended up getting a push.

 

[stro]

Hogan/Austin should have happened, but Hogan/Rock was the bigger match and no doubt would have been the better match. Rock/Hogan was better for WM. Rock was bigger than Austin, especially in 2002. Rock was far more the new Hogan than Austin, and Rock/Hogan in Toronto being a passing the torch match like Hogan/Warrior in Toronto 12 years earlier was too poetic to pass up.


More on topic, the NWO angle made no sense in WWE, since it started as a WWF takeover of WCW. Bringing them into WWE to kill it was stupid. They were returning heroes.

 

[MewTwo]

I thought that whole invasion angle was legit but they too messed that up as well. a lot of talent went under the radar and did not ended up getting a push.

The biggest botched storyline of the century.

 

[seanjohn21276]

Hogan turned face
Nash got hurt
Hall got drunk

This

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Hogan/Austin should have happened, but Hogan/Rock was the bigger match and no doubt would have been the better match. Rock/Hogan was better for WM. Rock was bigger than Austin, especially in 2002. Rock was far more the new Hogan than Austin, and Rock/Hogan in Toronto being a passing the torch match like Hogan/Warrior in Toronto 12 years earlier was too poetic to pass up.


More on topic, the NWO angle made no sense in WWE, since it started as a WWF takeover of WCW. Bringing them into WWE to kill it was stupid. They were returning heroes.

That's a good point. Had they made nWo the five kliq members and they basically acted they were uncontrollable (97dx status) it would've worked.

But this angle has so many what ifs its crazy

 

[Reggie]

This and the whole WCW invasion were just two of the biggest disappointments ever. They should have got the bigger stars from the start and no way should Hogan and Austin not had a match during that time period. To many egos involved instead of worrying about the bottom line which was the fans getting what they wanted and most of all them getting even more bread from the seats that could have sold.

 

[richaveli83]

It was lame to begin with. The whole concept of the nWo in WCW was the former WWE guys (Hogan, Nash, Hall) taking over WCW. The nWo got played out in 1998 so they put it on life support with the Wolfpac and then killed it again when they merged back in January 1999. People cheered Hogan, Nash, and Hall when they returned in 2002 because they were nostalgic from the their earlier WWE run. By the time they came back the WWE had The Rock, Austin, Angle, Jericho, Triple H, Benoit, etc and future stars like Cena, Lesnar, Orton, etc developing.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

The biggest botched storyline In wrestling history.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

It was lame to begin with. The whole concept of the nWo in WCW was the former WWE guys (Hogan, Nash, Hall) taking over WCW. The nWo got played out in 1998 so they put it on life support with the Wolfpac and then killed it again when they merged back in January 1999. People cheered Hogan, Nash, and Hall when they returned in 2002 because they were nostalgic from the their earlier WWE run. By the time they came back the WWE had The Rock, Austin, Angle, Jericho, Triple H, Benoit, etc and future stars like Cena, Lesnar, Orton, etc developing.

Someone said that earlier, but I don't think that holds a lot of weight...wwf 2002 fans ALL WATCHED NWO RISE. There weren't fans that are like "oh great razors back" like they didn't know or have an opinion about Scott hall. Wcw wasn't TNA (where angle can come back tomorrow and its 99.9% nostalgia) and the WWF fans were fans of the outsiders.

People popped because nWo was the shyt. HEY YO got a MONSTER pop because Scott hall was the man, not because of old WWF nostalgia.

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

Hogan turned face
Nash got hurt
Hall got drunk

This. I heard they were gonna basically turn the nwo into the kliq, but the nash injury was the final nail in the coffin for the nwo.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

1. They ran out of hip hop to steal from
2. Hbk was in the group
3. There was no individuality within the nWo with designs on gear aka nWo logos everywhere
4. Booking

IMO in any order

 

[YakSpiller]

BROTHER! IN THE WCW, I WAS USING SHEER WILLPOWER TO KEEP BIG SEXY'S QUADS INTACT,

 

[YakSpiller]

HBK in a Kangol killed it.