Fingerpoke of Doom

[Weez]

Before Bash at the Beach 96, Hall and Nash were the biggest thing in wrestling. Period. Not only was the "invasion" angle white-hot and ridiculous, you had the WWF bitching and moaning, using "Replacement" Razor Ramon and Diesel...

Legit, I cannot make this shit up.

They also, for a little while at least, had a screen at the end of each RAW broadcast, complaining and urging people to rise up against Ted Turner and Time Warner for their "Monopolous practices" or however you'd conjugate "Monopoly" lol. Hall and Nash bolting to WCW was what turned the tide in their favor. Period. Hogan signed with WCW in June 1994. Hall and Nash came in in 1996. It was their "outsider, hostile takeover" angle that got the wrestling community excited, then the best heel turn of ALL time in Hogan took it to unbelievable hype.

These are facts, like it or not.

Only TNA could fuck up a Once in a lifetime Heel turn like that and LOSE the war faster that WCW

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

They might have been red-hot going into Bash, but the ratings started spiking after the Hogan reveal. Hogan needed Hall & Nash to make it stick, but Hall & Nash needed Hogan to get the exposure.

To believe everything hinged on Kevin Nash, who was playing second fiddle, is absurd.

 

[Troy]

Nash got it all started with Hall, it was already successful with just Nash and Hall as The Outsiders. Looking at the ratings comparison, Nash's debut was actually the last time Nitro lost to RAW, and it was only a 0.1 loss, for two years. After his debut, Nitro never lost the ratings until April 1998. The week after his debut Nitro's rating jumped from a 2.6 to a 3.4, that is a 30% increase thanks to Nash and Hall and RAW's rating dropped from 2.7 to 2.3. Nash obviously had a huge impact, the ratings show that he did before Hogan turned. Hogan helped maintain that momentum and helped the group take it to another level. Notably the rating for Nitro the day after he turned at Bash at the Beach was a 3.5 so only 0.1 higher than it was after Hall and Nash were united together, so the ratings barely spiked higher the day after Hogan turned compared to the week after Nash appeared.

Nash wasn't just a bystander like Syxx he was an integral player in getting that group and that storyline to work, Hogan was obviously the icing on the cake though with his shock turn.

 

[Keith]

Some of you need to go back and watch some 1996 WCW if you don't think Hall and Nash were shit before Hogan. Hall turning up on Nitro is one of the craziest moments in wrestling history.

Back up I never said that Nash was not good in his role (at least at first) and that he and Hall didn't have a huge part to play in the ratings before Hogan came on board, all I said is WCW deserved just as much credit for the way they booked it, and that part of it was to do with timing, which is true. I give Nash credit for taking the ball and running with it, but he was just one part of the sucess. The guy has never been a super talent after all.

 

[FalconPunch]

To believe everything hinged on Kevin Nash, who was playing second fiddle, is absurd.

Good thing nobody is this topic is saying that then you goof.

Also special mention needs to go to how you said before:

nWo was nothing until Hogan joined

And have now contradicted that with:

They might have been red-hot going into Bash

Further exposing you really are a clueless dope just randomly typing gibberish. Troy above has done a good job in showing that you were also wrong in randomly claiming they didn't make a difference to the ratings.