the NWO: the story line that would change wrestling forever

[Tcarms920]

i think the nWo is one of the most influential story lines ever. it resulted in the rise of one company, another close to closing. it started the real Monday night wars, where WCW beat WWF week after week and then the WWF had to change there product or face bankruptcy. the changes WWF created legends like The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, Jericho and it also changed the demand for wrestling today. I hear a lot of complaints about WWE being PG, and how it should go back to the attitude era. That we wanna see more edgy personas and not superCENA. What would wrestling be like if WCW never got hogan? what if Kevin Nash and Scott Hall never went to WCW? if hogan wasn't the third man? who woulda been the third man? what if the nWo never existed? what would wrestling be like today?

[east]

Ever heard of a game called EWR? Because thats what you should probably play with pointless threads like this.

What would've happened? Nothing... Wrestling would've never peaked and plateued and actually became "cool" to watch in the late 90's... WWE wouldnt've gone out of business, and neither would WCW... Some stuff would've happened, if you actually see how it went down - The Ringmaster was in the WWE before hand, people were saying Steve Austin was the future, Shawn Michaels was the hot new superstar he was... Wrestling would've got dirtier and more intense because A. they took it off of ECW and the edgier independent scene and B. Global desensitization to violence in the media meant that it would've ended up in an inevitable "attitude" era

[Bodom]

If you find the thread pointless, why bother posting a reply?

Rather pointless and douchey.

[Tcarms920]

Ever heard of a game called EWR? Because thats what you should probably play with pointless threads like this.

What would've happened? Nothing... Wrestling would've never peaked and plateued and actually became "cool" to watch in the late 90's... WWE wouldnt've gone out of business, and neither would WCW... Some stuff would've happened, if you actually see how it went down - The Ringmaster was in the WWE before hand, people were saying Steve Austin was the future, Shawn Michaels was the hot new superstar he was... Wrestling would've got dirtier and more intense because A. they took it off of ECW and the edgier independent scene and B. Global desensitization to violence in the media meant that it would've ended up in an inevitable "attitude" era

But the only reason WWF went into the attitude era was to compete with WCW, and they let the ring master become SCSA because of the attitude era and the new demand for those kind of edgier wrestlers due to the NWO


and i agree with Bodom...you sound douchie.

[Rated_R(ob)KO]

He did something similar in one of my "what if" posts. He has some sort of inadequate ability to contemplate things like that. I imagine after every post he bashes a beer can on his head.

[The Brown One]

Ever heard of a game called EWR? Because thats what you should probably play with pointless threads like this.

What would've happened? Nothing... Wrestling would've never peaked and plateued and actually became "cool" to watch in the late 90's... WWE wouldnt've gone out of business, and neither would WCW... Some stuff would've happened, if you actually see how it went down - The Ringmaster was in the WWE before hand, people were saying Steve Austin was the future, Shawn Michaels was the hot new superstar he was... Wrestling would've got dirtier and more intense because A. they took it off of ECW and the edgier independent scene and B. Global desensitization to violence in the media meant that it would've ended up in an inevitable "attitude" era

No they created the Attitude Era solely to compete with WCW, to beat them. They wouldn't be the same company they are today if they hadn't run WCW out of business. They had to get the ratings to stay afloat, and the edgy storylines were the way to do it. WCW created its own downfall, which helped WWE, but WWE also had to create the Attitude Era to compete.

Tcarms920 was just giving us a history lesson, and telling us how he appreciated it. If you don't like that, then continue watching John Cena happily.

[Tcarms920]

. I imagine after every post he bashes a beer can on his head.

haha thats great

[MattElder]

I think it goes alot further than that, Look at Supercena.... His Dr of Thuganomics character was a result of The Attitude Era,
But i dont think he could debut as that character these days and the i cant see him being where he is today if he debuted as The Marine type gimmickhe potrays now.

Most of todays talents are here because they wanted to be a part of the business that had a huge increase in popularity, Would The Miz, JoMo, Dolph iggler, Kofi Kingston etc ever have seen and became fans of the product era?
I think its made the industry more competitive for athletes instead of the companies

[Rich Cranium]

I think it goes alot further than that, Look at Supercena.... His Dr of Thuganomics character was a result of The Attitude Era,

He had a bigger moveset back then too but somehow he got amnesia and forgot all but 5!

[RevolutionIcon]

Um. WWF didn't "create" the Attitude Era to compete with WCW. You don't create an era. lol

An Era creates itself.. Or else in reality we could create the "Make everyone rich era", so no..

The Attitude Era became what it was because Stone Cold Steve Austin was being cheered as a heel. If that never happened, all we would have had was three great heels being The Rock, HHH, and SCSA, and a company in dire need of a face seeing as how HBK eventually got hurt.

Sure the nWo would have gone on successfully, but the WWF wouldn't have dawned the Attitude Era if it wasn't for the FANS basically forcing them to change things up a bit. After that, then yes, they started planning storylines ahead of time for what they coined "Attitude".

There would have been no Attitude Era without SCSA, being cheered when he was supposed to be hated, just good heels, and who knows what they would have come up with. Probably Superstar Legend guest appearances monthly to challenge three great heels. lmfao

Doink The Clown vs. The Rock vs. SCSA vs. HHH

Oooooh, he loses. Who's next?

Oh wait, that's WCW's line, we can't use that. Grr.