Why wcw fall

The big man has a long history of getting his way in wrestling, and that is exactly what he did in WCW. He went over with a lot of hype, got a huge contract, him and Scott did whatever they wanted, and eventually he convinced Eric Bischoff to make him the booker of Nitro.

Once that happened, he ended Goldberg's streak, and began to play his games with wrestling. Putting the talent in charge of booking matches doesn't sound like a good idea. We come to the man who claimed to create The Attitude Era. The only problem was, in WWE he had Vince McMahon to tell him which ideas were bad, while in WCW he had complete creative control and all his ideas were put out there, and it came across as ridiculous.

His habits included adding a stipulation to just about every match and playing hot potato with all of WCW's titles. Possibly the biggest blunder in wrestling history. Allowing an actor who has no wrestling background to win the biggest title in the company.

Many laughed, the fans thought it was insane, and it made WCW look like they didnt know what they were doing. Thankfully it didn't last very long, but it hurt WCW bad. WCW was likely on its way to its demise before this happened, but this just about sealed it, as it killed a lot of their credibility as a wrestling company. The match that was the end of the streak could have been something big, but instead Scott Hall used a taser on Goldberg, allowing Kevin Nash to get the win and end the streak.

They had something so hot and so special with Goldberg being undefeated, and to end it like this was another questionable move. It was already questionable enough to end the streak to Kevin Nash, but to add the hokey taser to it really hurt them. Most of these guys were big names in the 80s, but now they were reinvented as part of the nWo. It became a bad habit, and by the time they got to Bret Hart, fans were tired of it.

If you had to pinpoint one episode of Nitro that dug WCW in the hold they could never crawl out of, this was it. Only this time the fans decided to flip over to Raw and see the title change, it gave Raw a big ratings win, and showed the arrogance and stupidity at WCW.

Combine this with the ridiculous Fingerpoke of Doom in the title match between Hogan and Nash, where WCW revealed Nash ending Goldberg's streak was all a conspiracy to reunite the nWo and put the title back on Hogan and you have a mess.

These guys made the cruiserweight division exciting and unique, and it set them apart from WWE. Once WWE had these guys and allowed them to break out of a set division, everyone saw their real potential, and WCW continued to go downhill. While their minds may have been made up, WCW definitely could have tried harder to keep these guys happy. For what reason? Nobody knows. When fans show up to a pro wrestling event, they want to see pro wrestling, not a concert.

If they wanted to watch Megadeth, they could have gone to a Megadeth concert. This is the one that most people believe is the 1 cause of death for WCW. The thing that made it 1, a revolutionary faction, and a moment nobody will ever forget, Hogan turning on the fans. Despite bringing back his ability to "hulk up" in early and coming back as a face in July to defeat "Macho Man" Randy Savage for the World Title, this just wasn't enough. So, against the advice of Eric Bischoff, Hulk Hogan used his contractual "creative control" to drag out his old costume and old music to bring back red and yellow Hulkamania on August 9, This started with Konan's music video in late and then a jobber-ish battle royal that aired on MTV called Beach Brawl in March of All of these acts were obvious ploys for attention and caused many viewers who didn't like these bands to change the channel to Raw.

Yet the only night that they went head-to-head was Monday, when Raw faced off against Nitro. This was a major problem for WCW, who had been showing their No. Though many people in the wrestling industry dislike Eric Bischoff, there's no denying the fact that he was behind WCW's success. Bischoff was a leader for WCW. He brought Monday Nitro to the air, developed pay-per-view-concepts and brought together the nWo.

Despite all this, by Bischoff, was no longer the on-screen president of WCW. According to the storyline, that position now belonged to Ric Flair. Truth be told, Bischoff was unable to deal with all the pressures of keeping WCW running.

He had to run the company, yet he also had to answer to the higher-ups at Time Warner. Not only did he have to try and keep viewers happy, but he had to also keep the execs happy as well.

Bischoff was not able to put on the kind of show necessary to compete with WWE while having one hand tied behind his back by his bosses. Ironically, the last Nitro before Bischoff was relieved of duty was also the last Nitro that came close to overtaking Raw in the ratings, as well as the last Nitro that scored above a 4. Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox!

Your sports. Join Newsletter. Not only did fans not buy it. Viewers decided that they would rather watch the actual WWE than a worse version of what was being presented by Vince McMahon and company.

A lack of originality past the nWo storyline was a big reason why WCW failed. Eric Bischoff should be praised for all that he did to make WCW the best pro wrestling product in the world for a period of time. Bischoff should also be blamed for WCW failing as it did. Bischoff put himself over time and time again as the heel authority figure and boss of the nWo, he pushed veteran former WWE stars ahead of younger talents, he mistreated Ric Flair on multiple occasions, and he failed to understand why WWE became the better product.

An ability to have a game plan for the future ultimately cost Bischoff his job in the company and it also helped crash WCW. People can look back and criticize Eric Bischoff for many decisions that Bischoff made over a two-year period. Bischoff at least helped build WCW throughout the s. Vince Russo contributed nothing positive to WCW and it could be said that the company would have been better off had Russo never been hired in the first place. Yes, WCW probably would have failed had Russo not been given any creative control, but Russo unquestionably helped drive the knife through the heart of the promotion by booking some of the worst wrestling shows of the era.

Russo essentially turned a sick patient into one that was on its death bed by the start of The pro wrestling bubble that grew in the s was always going to burst. WCW had lost all momentum heading into the start of and thus the product was not attractive to potential investors and to television broadcasters when the WWE swooped in and bought the rights to the company.

Granted, those in charge of WCW made a plethora of mistakes from through to destroy the company even before the bubble burst, but viewers ditching pro wrestling as a whole certainly didn't help. That same storyline played a big role in the company failing as it did. WCW seemingly had no real end game for the group, and the company used the nWo as a crutch for whenever those running the creative aspect of WCW had no other ideas.

WCW probably would have failed even if the nWo had been abandoned by the end of , but the company continuing to feature the faction up through resulted in viewers changing the channel to WWE programming or to non-wrestling shows.