The fingerpoke of doom 15 years later

[VIBE]

When it was gonna happen a second time, well, it really a finger poke but when Jarrett laid down for Hogan and Hogan went off, was that legit?

 

[dalyricalbandit]

HHH or Cena will in the future book it

 

[Chi-Town Bully]

WCW straight suckered me into watching this episode. First the rematch between Goldberg and Nash and when that didn't happen then the match with Nash and Hogan. This was the beginning of the end of WCW

 

[Sour-Cream]

GOAT move, I've knocked plenty a niggas the fuck out with this.

 

[Broddie]

Nail in the coffin for WCW. Wolfpac Vs. Black & White saved the tired NWO angle for a while. It made it look like it was finally coming to a real conclusion. Then this happened and two years later McMahon is strutting around as the owner of WCW.

When it was gonna happen a second time, well, it really a finger poke but when Jarrett laid down for Hogan and Hogan went off, was that legit?

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2012/7...so-and-worked-shooting-bash-at-the-beach-2000

 

[jono]

Ridiculous stuff.

 

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[Turfaholic]

They had to kill off the NWO some how. NWO was becoming bigger than WCW. And it was becoming stale.

 

[jono]

nWo could have been ended by Goldberg cuz he beat everybody that matters in the group already, I'm of the opinion that he nWo angle should have been ended when Sting beat Hogan at Starrcade though

 

[Mally_G]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GZAMbeVPxo&feature=player_detailpage

"you tried to make me look like a jackass, because you know that you are half the man that I am, and that I have half the brain that you do..."

Scott Hall's reaction is priceless.

 

[1CK1S]

The finger poke didn't end WCW, but it got things in motion which would lead to the inevitable fall.

The official death of WCW

 

[Copper]

Shit was GOAT and didn't end wcw

That bullshit reboot by Vince Russo did

 

[Broddie]

From the creative standpoint this was the beginning of the end. They never recovered. Then Russo came in right after this. The madmen were trying to run the asylum and it was pure chaos. Outside of Steiner everything on the show sucked from that point in 99 through to 2001 and it became redundant. It started to feel like Monday Night Has Beens.

 

[Chi-Town Bully]

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[RawAce]

Even as a young kid I knew hogan and Nash had too much power.

The main event of nitro was ass to me most the time but I faithfully watched every week because the Midcard was so great

Even when they reboot and had gimmick matches everywhere like cruiser weight tag titles and terrible hardcore matches wit sandman , haku and that 70's guys,

It was still better than the comedy WWF was puttin on TV

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

part of what led to vince having no comp, therefore, part of what has somewhat ruined wrestling, at least on the major scale

 

[Mally_G]

Even as a young kid I knew hogan and Nash had too much power.

The main event of nitro was ass to me most the time but I faithfully watched every week because the Midcard was so great

Even when they reboot and had gimmick matches everywhere like cruiser weight tag titles and terrible hardcore matches wit sandman , haku and that 70's guys,

It was still better than the comedy WWF was puttin on TV

true, i remember reading about how the main eventers were complaining that the lower cards were putting on better matches and that they didn't want to follow up such performances, so they basically used their pull and did squash matches on later shows at the expense of the lower cards to cool them down.

that's when Eddie, Benoit, Malenko, and Saturn stepped up and made a stand against the bullshit. When Benoit won the belt from Sid, it was an attempt to make him stay since he agreed to jump to WWF, but it didn't work, and in storyline, the belt was stripped.

Bischoff truly believed the shit Hogan, Nash, and others were telling him that he didn't need the undercard since they were the small guys and "didn't draw". They convinced him to give them all the money and shine because that's what people paid to see, but it actually was the downfall. When the wrestlers with the talent left, WCW sank. Jericho got fed up with that shit sometime before and been left. But when the Radicals bounced, it was the tell-tell sign WCW was done.

 

[Recaptimus_Prime360]

When it was gonna happen a second time, well, it really a finger poke but when Jarrett laid down for Hogan and Hogan went off, was that legit?

I think Hogan going off was legit.

 

[jono]

The Bash the Beach thing was the death knell.

 

[bull6599]

The Sting vs Hogan match at Starcade 97 was the beginning of the end IMO. They built that shit for 18 months only to to fuck it up b/c Hogan didn't wanna drop the belt.

W/ the Kane vs Undertaker story taking off at the end of 97, DX, & Stone Cold being pushed to main event status WWF was putting on a better product to me anyway, but WCW helped.