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Who Killed WCW?
Eric Bischoff
Hulk Hogan
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BlazeKinser
Feb 28, 2003

SMEEEEEE!!!

Mullah Nasrudin posted:

Why did they do that in the first place? Aside from WCW management not knowing much about wrestling, were they also ignorant of history and human nature?

Probably, but I'm also betting that it was the only way they could get Hogan to sign up with them. I also doubt they were very clued in to him being a huge primadonna backstage or just didn't realize how powerful giving someone complete control of their character can be, and just thought "hey this guy is really popular let's sign him up and people will watch our show!"

Granted it was a benefit in the short term, but still handing over that much power to anyone is a big risk at best.

Lone Rogue posted:

Hogan's long title reign was a good thing. It built up the emotion of the WCW side for the need to take down Hogan. If WCW was "winning the war" by beating Hogan for the belt every four months, the emotion would not have been there. Hogan having the belt for close to two years straight was a good booking decision.

It might have been in theory, but in practice it really wasn't. They never really built anyone up as a strong enough challenger to take the belt from him, and whenever someone did start to gain steam eventually Hogan's ego pushed them back into the midcard where they were discredited. It wasn't a case of the rightful contender being screwed and cheated out of his chance to take the belt off Hogan month after month, it was the nWo stomping all over everyone to the point where 75% of the roster ended up being in an nWo splinter faction just so they would actually get some TV time that didn't involve jobbing out.

BlazeKinser fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Dec 28, 2009

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