Between July 1996 to March 2001, when did WCW go cold?If you watch some of the Nitros shortly before it died, it's main event scene consisted of Dusty, his son (the gold one), and Ric Flair. But it must have gotten MOLTEN COLD before that point.
>>16300669Spring of 1999 is when WCW entered the irreversible death spiral that made the company ice cold. Up until that point there was still things they could've changed, but after that it was a long and slow death even if the merger didn't happen
>>16300669They put Virgil in the NWO.
>>16300669When Nash beat Goldberg
>>16300669>Molten coldFucking retard
>>16300741This is such a retarded smark answer. A company didn't die because of the result of one fake fight
>>16300669>it must have gotten MOLTEN COLD before that point.Dungeon of Doom was peak grimIt's not hot indeed
>>16300741Lol noThe Fingerpoke happening the same night as Mankind's title change was bad, people were actually into wolfpac Vs black and white, but they could still have salvaged it by having Goldberg have to get to Hogan, or form a face faction with guys like Sting,Page, turn Bret back face or elevate Booker.Instead the spring and summer of 1999 was dogshit booking. Hot potato to try emulate WWFs attitude madness but with no goal or structure. DDP got cooled off then gets the belt then turns heel. Hogan and Nash get turned into sympathy faces when the Fingerpoke happened a couple months earlierIt's like the people who say Russo ruined WCW. If you think that you didn't watch the 7 months before Russo.
>>16301791>elevate Booker.You had Benoit skirting the main event scene in 99 but by the time they tried to put the belt on him in early 2000 he'd already checked out. He should have been elevated in 99.And hell even a guy like Buff Bagwell was oozing charisma and given the right booking could have been a decent upper mid-card face but got fucked around with dogshit angles. As much as I love Hogan and Flair they overplayed that shit in 99 as well for over two PPVs and then put the fucking US belt on Flair's charisma vacuum of a son. There's a litany of fuck ups made AFTER Nash V Goldberg and the fingerpoke that occured in 99, that putting the downfall of WCW onto one or two events is ridiculous.
>>16300669>when did WCW go cold?the night after starrcade 97the only time things picked up for a bit was during goldbergs streak leading up to him beating hogan. then after beating hogan they had no idea how to book goldberg so that was the end of that
>>16301973this.
>>16301537WELCOME NEWFRIEND
>>16301973how would you have booked gold berg after that
>>16302399he was unbookable. "he never loses" is NOT a gimmick.hell when sid vicious was doing that, it was clearly satire and at least he already had a gimmick and established following.
>>16300669Yeah, molten cold, instead of ice hot.The downhill started with Starrcade '97.The fingerpoke of doom was the point of no return.
The downfall started when they signed the Shitman.
>>16302430>he was unbookable. "he never loses" is NOT a gimmick.His gimmick was that "he'd never lost" as he was a hot-shit powerhouse monster up-and-comer. They could have booked him some interesting feuds but just fed him jobbers week after week and it got stale pretty quick. Facing DDP was the highlight of his run as here was a guy that could possibly defeat him (and probably should have).I agree with you that he wasn't booked well during his championship run but they could have done better with him after that. The best thing for Goldberg was losing the world belt. >when sid vicious was doing that, it was clearly satire and at least he already had a gimmick and established following.I don't think Russo was smart enough for that
I want to know who booked the Fingerpoke of Doom.
>>16302564Nash but it was Hogan pulling creative control
>>16300669Nash and Hogan were the cancer that killed WCW, so this is like asking when did the cancer become terminal. No amount of what-ifs or fantasy booking could have overcome the poison of those two insecure greedy idiot marks with supreme creative control. Anything you tried to do, with anyone, they would've butted in and turned it to shit. For years WCW was a long-dead ghost ship before it finally sank in 2001.
>>16300669>consisted of Dusty, his son>Made the cool WCW lame again in 90s>Made the cool again WWE lame in 2024Dang what a dimeless family of shitters, wrestling has more than one dimeless shitter family
LITERALLY LOOK AT THE ADJECTIVE
>>16302399>how would you have booked gold berg after thatdoes it matter? its 25+ years later>>16302430>he was unbookablethats rather general. im sure there were interesting things he could have done
>>16303991thanks brother
>>16300669The earliest pinpoint is either Starrcade 1997 or the Nitro where Goldberg won the belt - either or are entirely up for debate and depends how you look at the whole thing.Personally I'll say with '97 because at the time, Nitro was still doing gangbusters ratings but the build up to Hogan/Sting with the payoff it resulted in? Probably not what anyone was looking to see
