What you loved about WCW?

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I loved how different it was to the way WWE at the time presented things, the great action with established workers from all over the world, the innovation of the nWo, the rise of Goldberg, the brilliant booking of Sting in '97, but Bischoff raiding ECW and the hiring of Vince Russo let it down in the end for me.

[Flava Dave]

Smaller guys getting to wrestle 10-15 minute matches because management didn't give a .

[threehgame]

Jericho! WWF Jericho was never as fresh, funny or annoying as WCW Jericho.

Sting vs. NWO. While the ending sucked it was such as awesome storyline.

Just the general feeling you got from watching. WCW had a way of making their wrestlers interesting (at least at the start of the MNW) where WWF seemed to throw people into matches and angles to get them TV time outside of Austin, and the Rock.

[Emerald Enthusiast]

I still think the NWA/early WCW era was superior to the Hogan era. I miss the Horsemen vs Dusty/Road Warriors/Magnum/Nikita feuds, Sting (back when he was interesting) vs Flair, Flair vs Steamboat, The Midnight Express vs The Road Warriors.....that was a magical time.

[T R W]

The luchador matches and the mid card really made WCW for me. The nWo was exciting, but the opening matches usually made WCW worth watching, even in the final years.

[whatthe[img]http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/wfcensored.gif[/img]isrop]

I was a huuuuge WCW fan when I was a kid. I used to watch both, but I always preferred WCW. I can't really remember why, but I loved Chris Jericho, I used to have walls filled with posters and magazine cutouts of him and I had most of his figures. I just felt more drawn towards WCW, even though a lot of my friends watched WWF a lot more.

[N1SF]

Jun 15, 2011 15:47:44 GMT -5 Squatch said:

Well I never was around for WCW since I was a little toddler at the time in the late 90's. However I have looked at so much WCW its not even funny. I loved a lot of things about it. Like they said in the Rise and Fall of WCW, there was something for everybody. I just happened to love the nWo, Goldberg, Cruiserweights, Nitro Girls, and just about everything. Many people hated WCW 2000-2001 and I will admit that they were pretty bad at the time but it was because they lost interest because of repeated storylines and Vince Russo's creative ideas. They didn't realize Russo and Vince McMahon were the team that worked and WCW only had half of the team. 1996-1998 were the best years for reasons that don't really have to be explained. The New World Order storyline should have ended at Starrcade 1997 but the WCW thought the fans couldn't get enough of it and it eventually became like the New Nexus has, stale. The end killed my interest and I will always remember the great days at the top WCW had.

Your "opinions" are directly from The Rise and Fall of WCW DVD.

[marino13]

I preferred the late NWA/ early years of wCw. Loved guys like Dusty, The Horsemen, Windham, Road Warriors, Sting, Luger, Nikita, Magnum, & the Midnight Express. That era they may have had the greatest roster of all time.

[greenjack1992]

Ron
ing
Simmons.

[tnafan17: The Total Package]

Sting & Lex Luger.

[Deleted]

The cruiserweight division pretty much made WCW for me. However, I did like some of their 95-97 stuff, mainly the nWo. Other stuff I just can't get into.

[laz22]

Absolutely nothing

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Jun 24, 2011 9:51:32 GMT -5 @laz22 said:

Absolutely nothing

why post then? nonsense.

[fallbrawl]

War Games
Spin the Wheel make the deal
Fallbrawl (favorite wcw ppv)
Halloween Havoc (2nd favorite wcw ppv)

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Jun 24, 2011 18:45:40 GMT -5 fallbrawl said:

Halloween Havoc (2nd favorite wcw ppv)

yeah I loved HH too.I am really suprised Vince hasnt capitalised on this in his PG Era with Halloween falling on the weekend the last couple of years.

[twinn]

I love late 80's/early 90's WCW almost as much as I love late 80's/early 90's WWF. Sting, Luger, Flair, Big Van Vader, Sid Vicious, The Great Muta, Arn Anderson, Ricky Steamboat, Ravishing Rick Rude, Cactus Jack, Nikita Koloff, The Steiner Brothers, The Fabulous Freebirds, Doom, The Hollywood Blondes, etc. etc. etc. Galoob figures were badass too even tho they didn't move like Hasbros. Just such a great goddamn time to be a kid and love wrestling.

[StingerSplash]

I was raised on WCW, practically. haha. My favorite part though was definitely watching Sting battle the NWO through late 96 and 97. I couldn't wait for Sting to finally get Hogan in a match, and even though I will never understand the ending of their match at Starrcade, I'll still always love that feud.

Like Mikey, I was a huge Jericho fan. I loved him. Also was a big fan of Kidman back in the day.

I just loved that atmosphere that WCW had. It was just so, exciting. You wanted to tune in every week, and see what was going to happen next. It was compelling television.

[DTP.]

The feel of a THREE HOUR and LIVE episode of Nitro every single week. And the format of Nitro as well:

Hour 1: A few squash matches, maybe one midcard match and 1 or 2 promos from main eventers.
Hour 2: More promos, a few more credible/longer midcard matches, maybe a main event match to close the second hour. Cruiserweights mainly used here.
Hour 3: More credible and longer matches. Perhaps title matches, more promos, and an entertaining but below average quality main event.

[3Lephant (Naptown Icon)]

I know this is kind of on the surface, but I remember as a kid flipping back and forth between Raw and Nitro. But the best part was, for a while they had an hour on Nitro that went unopposed. As a 6-10 year old wrestling fan at the time (96-99), you couldn't ask for a better Monday Night. When Raw was at a commercial you switched to Nitro, and vice versa.

Because of this, I was overcome with nostalgia last year as TNA tried to take on WWE. And I actually ended up watching only TNA, and taping Raw, just to support the underdog.