Recent content by Chris1-16

Attendance and ratings didn't "collapse" immediately following the turn it wasn't until the Fall during the Invasion flop when there was a true decline in ratings and business. Attendance in 2001: https://sites.google.com/site/chrisharrington/mookieghana-prowrestlingstatistics/avghouseshow Not...

IMO it was really 1997 WW3. With Hogan coming out last in the battle royal to take Nash's place, they could've had him win it and after dropping the title to Sting could use the battle royal win to build up to a big rematch instead of the shit that actually went down. Scott Hall getting the...

To be honest even when he went to WWE he didn't get to the level that was expected of him. Within a year he was sent to OVW for being out of shape again and he clearly didn't care at that point. That was pretty much the difference between WCW and WWE, WWE punished him when he wasn't trying. He...

I've always wondered why didn't they just have Hogan win this? Since he was the champion he could've won since he was taking Nash's place and after dropping the belt to Sting could've used the battle royal victory to get his rematch right there instead of the nonsense that actually happened like...

The NWO meant nothing for the ratings in 98, especially after the split, the only reason Nitro was still competitive with Raw in 98 was Goldberg getting the WCW Title. People weren't interested in seeing Hogan as champion anymore and it was clear they had no direction with what he was going to...

The NWO was a joke in 98. Hall and Nash were mailing almost everything in and the only positive thing Hogan did was put over Goldberg which he had no choice but to do with Raw dominating at that point. I don't see Hogan doing much to get Jericho over, he didn't help get anyone else in NWO...

He was in WWE at that point. Anyways the storyline was supposed to eventually lead to Jericho joining NWO Black and White but Jericho realized that he didn't need to be apart of a faction, especially one lead by Hogan, to get over so they dropped it.

I wasn't saying WCW was copying the angles, they were copying the product style. WWE did the "truck destorys car/limo" angle numerous times with Austin before WCW did the white hummer storyline. The difference was that WCW did it by having someone inside of the limo while it was being destroyed...

Your posts are way too long man. Anyway the examples I listed with WCW copying WWE happened in mid 1999 when Bischoff was still president and Nash had booking power, Bischoff lost his power in September and Nash was still booking until October.

Oh, and I can't forget they began having the announcers at ringside and had them sit at an announce table, which people usually went through half of the time. They were clearly copying WWE that year, only with worse booking and more politics involved.

Don't blame Time Warner, Nash was booking everything for most of the year. WCW had more Attitude Era content in 99 than than they did in previous years, they weren't being restricted at all. There was the whole Rodman-Savage stuff, there was the Nash-Savage feud that included sewage and the...

If the Goldberg chants were piped in during the Nash feud Meltzer would've said they were because he was always quick to point out in his reviews whether they were or not, and according to him they weren't at that point.

No they weren't piped in because the fans were booing him, they were piping in Goldberg chants as early as when he was the US Champion and was clearly the hottest star in the company. I don't know why they piping the chants in, he was over enough already without them. WCW did a lot of...

Why would Meltzer lie? The crowd being pro Goldberg against Nash both leading up to Starrcade and the Nitro episode afterwards gives some legitimacy to what he said, I'd take what he said back in 98 when it actually happened over this board that lives off revisionist history.

Nash was not more over than Goldberg or even Sting for that matter. I've watched the Nitro episodes leading up to Starrcade and even the Nitro afterwards and the fans were clearly more pro Goldberg than vice versa. Nash only got the big pop for ending the streak but according to Meltzer's WON...