Every vote is a voice that tells a story. The Tylt. By Daniel Tran. Join the conversation. Real-time Voting. Everything was so colorful and cartoon-like, and unlike the previous generation, fans of the mids had grown tired of the cartoonish nature of the business. The world at large was changing, and wrestling needed the nWo to change the way the business looked.
Even though he got his start as a bad guy, the thought of Hulkamania as a heel was completely unheard of. Making Hulk Hogan a heel was the only way the nWo was going to truly work. The fans were waiting for a change and got it in a big way. According to some, the reason WCW had some problems building young guys into stars like WWE was able to, is because they had so many ready-made top guys already working on the roster.
Meanwhile, the WWE reached a point where they had trouble drawing money, as they were in a transition period in finding top stars. Before the nWo, DDP was a decent mid-card talent who was trying any gimmick he could to break through.
The mystique of Goldberg is remarkable. WCW knew that A. WCW had him dominate just about everyone. With the exception of Regal who tried to teach him, and Bret Hart, who sustained a career-ending injury in his big bout with Goldberg, he did a decent job. For the better part of a year, The Streak was one of the hottest things WCW, and the business in general, had to offer. Feeling hurt and dejected, The Stinger would hang out in the rafters, carry a bat, and every now and again a vulture.
One mark against WCW is that they seldom knew how to effectively end a storyline. WWE had the hog farmer Godwinn cousins, a garbage man, a plumber, and a whole host of other occupational-type gimmicks being portrayed by mid-card and journeymen talent.
By , the company got rid a lot of these strange gimmicks, but the product would still take a few more years before returning to pop culture relevancy. For WCW this is the year of Vader as he is at the forefront of the story lines and an impressive gimmick. Bulldog is decent, and WCW gets Flair back toward the end of the year to wrestle against Vader at the height of Vader's dominance. Rude and Flair have a good match at Fall Brawl.
For the WWF, I think things start to decline and there isn't a clear cut formula for success at this point. Your Wrestlemania is another Hogan debacle where he is in a match but refuses to become a tag champion because it's beneath him, and then pulls the goofy ending after Yokozuna beats Bret. Yokozuna ends up with the title and a lengthy run with small marketability. WWF tries to recreate Hogan with Luger, but it simply doesn't work. Vader, Flair, Sting, and Hogan were all on the roster at this point and rotating through the main events all year.
Hogan manages to ruin a Starrcade by putting the barber in a match against him. Yokozuna is involved heavily throughout the year but there's only so much of a fat guy that you can't pick up that's entertaining. Hart and Michaels were great talents, but the story lines and heat just weren't there for WWF to be competitive. Michaels proves to be inconsistent. While the main event scene still revolved around familiar faces, they weren't quite to the point of being stale and tired yet.
Hogan is the most anticipated match of all time despite being botched. The WCW mid card was very exciting despite having little heat. WWF is flirting with the Attitude era at this point, the Canada vs. America angle is very interesting, but not going to win it for them. Austin's push is put on ice due to a neck injury, but the grittier product is starting to emerge in WWF and they are starting to pull themselves out of the slump despite losing Hart at the end of the year.
The Attitude era is in full swing and the NWO doesn't seem quite as entertaining so they form two different factions in an attempt to be fresh.
The Warrior is brought on board late that year, and misused. Goldberg's very popular. The year of Austin is at hand and very interesting angles pan out. WWF produces a very gritty product, despite not having the midcard talent that the WCW has, the WWF wins out because of a much better main event scene.
WCW is not doing anything special at this point. MrMojoRisin Championship Contender. Joined: Aug 10, Messages: Likes Received: Let's see: WWF - This really isn't because they were doing anything special that year, but whatever they were doing, WCW was doing far less.
Creatively WCW's top talent was putting on some great matches, but nothing they did could compare with the level of star power that WWF had now, or the work that Flair put in that year. There's never been a better Rumble than that years. The Dangerous Alliance. Against Hogan as a phoney champ and the Lex Express? They weren't. I'd always looked to WCW until then as the place I could watch a better quality wrestling product, and opposed to the showier WWF product WCW stopped being campy and got edgy.
The intrigue factor was threw the roof. And WWF, while they had a lot of the talent they'd use to eventually win already on board, didn't have a clue how to use any of them that year. The HBK show in particular for me McMahon started, that was the end of WCW for me. It was just so hard to stay interested in what they were doing, especially with the never ending, stale NWO angle. Creepy Old Man Championship Contender.
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