WCW died. For a company that's peak lasted short of two years, it produced many memories, fantastic innovations, matches and ignited the wrestling explosion of the late 90's. Or course there was far more bad than good, but the celebration of life is about the good times. To quote the funniest black man to ever live, "motherfucker might be gone, but we sure had big fun while he was here. No need to be sad".
Memories? Favorite moments? Favorite matches? And of course shit that left a bad taste in your mouth.
I loved, absolutely loved Sgt. Peppers, technicolor Sting, he was probably my favorite baby face of that time before HBK took off.
Vader. Holy fuck no heel ever struck fear or made me feel that he was actually brutalizing someone the way Vader did. That elephant mask was just awesome. Then Hogan came and ruined the guy in one match by no selling a power bomb and vader bomb.
The awesome tag action from 91-93, the NWA-WCW tag title unifcation and the awesomeness of Doc and Bam Bam Gordy, the Steiners, Dustin and Barry Windham, Steamer and Shane Douglas and the Hollywood Blonds. Just an incredible tag title lineage in that time, throw in Arn and Bobby Eaton, two of the greatest tag workers ever, and it was an incredibly solid lineage.
Ray Traylor (Bossman) shaving just half of John Tenta's (Earthquake) hair and beard. Awesome.
Jericho in 98, just incredible. Man of 1,001 holds. Ralphus. The Goldberg mini feud that got fucking ruined because of WCW's inane booking and inability to recognize and establish talent, which is a huge reason the company went belly up.
The Cruisers. This was easily the finest wrestling to ever happen in mainstream American wrestling. TNA's X division at it's best doesn't eat the Cruiser's cum and RoH's pseudo Jap style is just not in the argument. From Rey -Malenko to the Cruiserweight Tag titles, this was always a bright spot of WCW.
Of course the nWo. But as awesome as it was, it soured just as mightily.
The West Texas Rednecks. Was probably the only thing Curt Hennig did that was entertaining after 1994 and brought him to his only good match post WWF. I loved it. "There's only one thing that I hate because it's a bunch of crap. I, I, I hattteee rap."
The bad, well there was alot of bad. From Flair getting bitched by Hogan for over a year, to the over kill of Hulkamania where he and Savage beat 8 men in one match (Flair, Anderson, the Giant, Luger included) and the overkill of Hollywood, to the burial of fresh talent that was getting over on their own accord (see Jericho, Chris and Raven). Then there's the Russo Era. 5 Jeff Jarrett title reigns. That says enough. But as bad as WCW was, I'll still take any of it over any TNA offering from the past 6 years. RIP WCW, why can't TNA follow suit?
Memories? Favorite moments? Favorite matches? And of course shit that left a bad taste in your mouth.
I loved, absolutely loved Sgt. Peppers, technicolor Sting, he was probably my favorite baby face of that time before HBK took off.
Vader. Holy fuck no heel ever struck fear or made me feel that he was actually brutalizing someone the way Vader did. That elephant mask was just awesome. Then Hogan came and ruined the guy in one match by no selling a power bomb and vader bomb.
The awesome tag action from 91-93, the NWA-WCW tag title unifcation and the awesomeness of Doc and Bam Bam Gordy, the Steiners, Dustin and Barry Windham, Steamer and Shane Douglas and the Hollywood Blonds. Just an incredible tag title lineage in that time, throw in Arn and Bobby Eaton, two of the greatest tag workers ever, and it was an incredibly solid lineage.
Ray Traylor (Bossman) shaving just half of John Tenta's (Earthquake) hair and beard. Awesome.
Jericho in 98, just incredible. Man of 1,001 holds. Ralphus. The Goldberg mini feud that got fucking ruined because of WCW's inane booking and inability to recognize and establish talent, which is a huge reason the company went belly up.
The Cruisers. This was easily the finest wrestling to ever happen in mainstream American wrestling. TNA's X division at it's best doesn't eat the Cruiser's cum and RoH's pseudo Jap style is just not in the argument. From Rey -Malenko to the Cruiserweight Tag titles, this was always a bright spot of WCW.
Of course the nWo. But as awesome as it was, it soured just as mightily.
The West Texas Rednecks. Was probably the only thing Curt Hennig did that was entertaining after 1994 and brought him to his only good match post WWF. I loved it. "There's only one thing that I hate because it's a bunch of crap. I, I, I hattteee rap."
The bad, well there was alot of bad. From Flair getting bitched by Hogan for over a year, to the over kill of Hulkamania where he and Savage beat 8 men in one match (Flair, Anderson, the Giant, Luger included) and the overkill of Hollywood, to the burial of fresh talent that was getting over on their own accord (see Jericho, Chris and Raven). Then there's the Russo Era. 5 Jeff Jarrett title reigns. That says enough. But as bad as WCW was, I'll still take any of it over any TNA offering from the past 6 years. RIP WCW, why can't TNA follow suit?
