World Champions montage on last Nitro, your opinions?

[One to Remember]

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What do you all think of the video package on the last WCW Nitro depicting al former WCW World champions and a few NWA World champions? Do you feel it reinforced misconceptions about the lineage of the WCW title or do you feel it was appropriate considering how WCW or one of its forerunners allowed the NWA to stay afloat for 2 decades prior to WCW's demise?
The video depicts the likes of Luger, Savage, Sting, Ron Simmons [Faarooq], DDP, Flair, Booker T., Vader, (Psycho) Sid Vicious, and Kevin Nash.

Wrestlers who I understand being there who weren't WCW Champs are Barry Windham, I believe he guy in the face paint is Masa Chono however they both won a WCW controlled NWA World title. Although not WCW champs they were in effect champs of WCW.

I also agree on some grounds over the depictions of Ron Garvin and Dusty Rhodes. They were champions of the JCP era.

I don't however agree with Terry Funk, Buddy Rogers (?), Brisco, or a few other old guys from the NWA era being in the video package. The most shocking thing tome was that Roddy Piper who never won a World title was in this video.

Also why was Rick Rude not depicted or even Hiroshi HASE?

Was this a last attempt at propaganda or was this just another classic WCW blunder? You decide.

 

[oldschool]

Technically, Roddy Piper WAS a World Champion; he was NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion in 1972 from March 13 - March 15. True, it was only for two days, but it was a legit championship reign. (I guess Roddy was the Tommy Rich of the Light Heavyweights.)

 

[Maikeru_1979]

*sigh..*

this is wrestling not boxing or the amazing world of lucha, no one cares about that..

i beg to differ with you on this. the light heavyweight/cruiserweight championship served a great purpose in wrestling. just cause VKM don't give a rats @$$ about small guys don't mean they aren't important. back in the day of the 60s/70s/ and even some of the 80s & 90s the World Heavyweight Championships were controlled by large wrestlers and super heavyweights. Smaller wrestlers like Piper had absolutely no chance of beating someone like Hogan, Flair, Dusty, Andre. so they had their own division specificly for smaller wrestlers, it was just as important to them as the world title was to the big men. WCW revitialized the light weight division during their hey day...but then VKM killed it with Hornswoggle.

But onto point...yes i agree with the Video. it showed the complete history of the WCW title. and although they left the NWA in the early 90s they didn't do like most companies and just forget about their past

 

[One to Remember]

i beg to differ with you on this. the light heavyweight/cruiserweight championship served a great purpose in wrestling. just cause VKM don't give a rats @$$ about small guys don't mean they aren't important.

They were marginalized in WCW and the AWA as well which had a light-heavyweight division. barely any of us were born when those divisions where of prominence.

Smaller wrestlers like Piper had absolutely no chance of beating someone like Hogan, Flair, Dusty, Andre. so they had their own division specificly for smaller wrestlers, it was just as important to them as the world title was to the big men.

Piper 235 lbs, 6'2
Hennig 260 lbs, 6'3 May 2, 1987, AWA World heavyweight title
Tommy Rick, 248 lbs, 6'3 April 27, 1981, NWA World's heavyweight title
Bob Backlund 234 lbs, 6'1 Feb 28, 1978, WWWF/WWF World heavyweight title
Pédro Morales 230-240 lbs, 5'10 Feb 8, 1971, WWWF heavyweight title
Nick Bockwinkel 241 lbs, 5'10 Nov 8, 1975, AWA World heavyweight title
"Mad Dog" Vachon 231 lbs, 5'9 May 2, 1964, AWA World heavyweight title
Dory Funk, Jr. 240 lbs, 6'3 Feb 11, 1969, NWA World's heavyweight title

Those are all the first World title wins in their respective careers, also right in Piper's era and his prime. He had no business in the video, I think it was just one of those fuck ups that WCW will live in infamy for.

Wow yeah I think the data speaks for itself. Don't hate the promotion hate the piper...

But onto point...yes i agree with the Video. it showed the complete history of the WCW title. and although they left the NWA in the early 90s they didn't do like most companies and just forget about their past

Yes but the main controversy has been them trying to misconstrue the NWA title history as the WCW title's history. The WCW started in either 1990 or 1991 depending on the source. The question is is it WCW's past to begin with and should they had lead viewers to believe that? We know legally it was wrong because the issue went to a court but what do fans of the sport think?