Juventud Guerrera speaks about WCW

[supernatural1981]

I loved WCW when i was growing up, i remember starting to watch it around 91 when they had the likes of El Gigante, Big Josh, Sting, Arn Anderson and my fave at that time "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes. I actually still had my Sting wrestling buddy up until about 3 years ago, and for a 10 year old who could only watch WWF at a friends or familys house because we didnt have sky at the time these guys were my heros.

As soon as we got sky (early 92) i became a WWF fan and WCW sort of went to the back burner until Hulk Hogan joined there which made me intrested again. I managed to watch it on ITV here in the uk on a saturday around tea time for a small while which i remember the wheres cactus jack? segments a little bit.

It wasnt until my uncle managed to show me that WCW was on TNT followed by Raw every monday over here that i really got back into it, 97 onwards i was a huge WCW fan and prefered them over WWF during the attitude era even had my NWO wolfpac shirt

[justtxyank]

I'll never agree with anyone who says talent was buried in WCW during the mid to late 90s. You want buried? Look at midcarders in today's WWE. They normally have no purpose and just go out there ho hum until someone decides to tell fans they matter again and give them a story.

That is NOT what happened in WCW. In 1997-1998, WCW did a brilliant job of making all of their titles important. This is why people who dismiss title reigns in WCW because "everyone won the belt!" give themselves away as someone who didn't watch. During that stretch, the TV title felt important. The US title felt important. The cruiserweight title felt important.

The guys fighting over the tv title and cruiserweight title were not buried. That was some of the most popular stuff going and they got a ton of air time. Juventud Guerrera, Chris Jericho and Dean Malenko were part of some of the best stuff in wrestling in 1998. Fans didn't think it was just filler, we cared. Those guys were not being buried.

It wasn't until 1998 started to move along that things started to fall apart at the seams. Thunder was a disaster and the creative team really started to get weird and stopped pushing the mid card the right way.

Lastly, people point to the Radicalz leaving as examples of guys who were buried and left but it isn't true. They didn't leave because they were getting buried (quite the opposite actually, at that time Benoit had been pushed to the top) they left because they didn't want to work with Kevin Sullivan.