wcw 2001

[qwertyu]

I think that before Vince McMahon bought WCW in March of 2001 that WCW was becoming a lot better. I liked the storyline of the Magnificent 7 and thought Scott Steiner made a great champion. If you were Eric Bishoff what changes/decisions would you have made to save WCW.

 

[Hbkfanforever]

I Would Have Made Goldberg Face Stiener And Fued With Him Have The Nwo And Buy The Dudleys And They Can Fued With Them They Could Of Got Rid Of Washedup Wrestlers Lke Ddp Jim Duggan And Many More And If I Was Bischoff I Would Feud With Hulk Hogan

 

[hahahaha]

I would have left the NWO dead.

Keep pushing talent like Booker T as the top face. Scott Steiner would be the top heel.

Moved Lex Luger into a managing role. He could have managed the WCW Tag Team Champions Chuck Palumbo & Sean O'Haire.

Signed some up and coming indi-talent like AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels.

Brought back Hulk Hogan and Sting and use them to elevate some talent but don't just use them as stepping stones. Have Goldberg feud with Steiner.

Promote Vampiro to the title hunt. Use guys like Curt Hennig, Jeff Jarrett, Dustin Rhodes, Buff Bagwell to the full potential.

Signed what would have become TNA's X division stars.

Signed ECW alumni Rob Van Dam before WWE...Signed Steve Corino, CW Anderson, Simon Diamond & Johnny Swinger.

Focused on what WCW did right ie..big time matches. Less on WWE's Soap Opera style.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

WCW was on the way up again in 2001. I believe they had A.J. Styles and Chris Daniels in the Power Plant if i'm not mistaken and R.V.D. signed or was about to sigh before WWE brought out WCW. The only reason it started to get better was because everyone realised they were producing crap and they had to make changes, although by that time it was to late.

 

[qwertyu]

Hogan was gone from the company after the incident with Vince Russo at Bash at the Beach. Sting was injured by Scott Steiner. Goldberg was retired by Luger and Bagwell.

 

[liljosh785]

I think that before Vince McMahon bought WCW in March of 2001 that WCW was becoming a lot better. I liked the storyline of the Magnificent 7 and thought Scott Steiner made a great champion. If you were Eric Bishoff what changes/decisions would you have made to save WCW.

man i thought i was the only one that remembered who the magnificent 7 were. none of my friends remember that short lived stable, i thought it was a great one.

other than that all i really can think of right now is that whole new blood angle. i cant say i would of done that.the natural born thrillers was an ok faction,at least palumbo,jindrak,ohare and stasiak.i thought those 4 men would of been a great future for any brand, but i guess i was wrong. i honestly hated when i saw booker t come out that night on nitro as the wcw champion. at the time i just couldnt see him as the champ but then again he was a huge fan favorite but didnt draw a crowd like Goldberg.

and for the cruiserweights.right at then end of wcw they made a cruiserweight tag team championship and seemed like they were focusing alot of time on the c-weight division.not that its a bad thing to have crusierweights,but every nitro they had for the last few weeks of its airing they had a crapload of qualifying matches for those titles and half those guys were new to wcw,like kid romeo and elix skipper.i just didn't think they should of been focusing that much tv time on guys like that and others like "above Average" mike sanders,Reno,Vito and so on.

there was a half decent hardcore divison which i would of kept,but that dissapeared after Meng dropped the hardcore title and left for WWE.i mean there were ok hardcore champs to keep that going like Terry Funk,Shane Douglas,Lance Storm,and Crowbar.so thats another change.hardcore division seemd like a must back then.

im sure there is a whole lot more i could go on for hours about but i dont want to bore anybody.but great thread

 

[Retribution]

Unfortunately, too many of the big names like Hogan and Goldberg were gone by then; leaving folks like Steiner to carry the company and try to bring it back. A real shame, considering the state of pro wrestling today.

 

[Shocky]

The problem with WCW was real simple, they depended too much on old WWE guys to draw.

examples: Hogan, Hart, Savage, Hall, Nash, etc.. etc... Ric Flair and Sting were established names within the NWA before WCW formed, so that doesn't count.

WCW was damn good at meshing too big names together that sold PPV's. They didn't need storylines, because who didn't, at the time, want to see Hogan and Warrior. The best example of a WCW PPV has to be Halloween Havoc 1998.

Hall vs. Nash
Warrior vs. Hogan
Goldberg vs. DDP
Sting vs. Bret Hart
Jericho vs. Raven
Steiner vs. Steiner

That PPV sold itself with names, not story lines. And the formula worked. But guess what happens, all those guys start to get injured and by mid 2000, everyone is gone. So what does this leave, a huge void. A bunch of young guys come onto the picture, but guess what, with no name talent to get them over, no one cared. WCW couldn't create anyone on their own during the Monday night War. One name and that's Goldberg, (anyone remember Prince Iaukea and Glacier?).

It is fair to say, WCW on the day it closed had just as much raw talent as the WWE, I won't dispute that at all, but the fact is that they sat on their hands too much and it bit them in the ass, and that's why they are gone and WWE is here.

 

[schoondog]

it also didn't help matters once turner and aol merged, the suits didn't really give a shit about wrestling and could care less if it aired or not

 

[TNA is better]

The only reason WCW was getting killed in the ratings was because all of there stars were getting old and they never ever took the time to put any of there young stars over.

 

[Unrated Superstar]

I remember Prince Iaukea, even before he became TAFKAPI, or Mr. Purple.

I remember Glacier too, particularly the night he returned, and walked in the arena, shaking hands with all the fans while he was supposed to be helping Norman Smiley who was getting his ass handed to him in the ring.

And I would have strayed from giving characters names like Hugh G. Rection. Really, that was literally stolen from an episode of Beavis and Butthead. Also, I didn't like how after a while every main event ended in a no contest. And no more 5-on-1 matches where the outcome of the match is a foregone conclusion.

Just a few thoughts.

 

[JacobDonavan]

Th3e problem with wcw at the time was by 2000 the wwe had most of the fans hooked on their product. WCW would have had to do something wid and outragous to get people to tune in and while you saw that starting to show thru with the magnificent 7, WCW just plain ran out of time. It's the same way with TNA they have in my opinion an overall better product but they need to do something to get the fans to want to see whats going on.