Thoughts on the last Nitro of the original Russo era? Was it a "banger" or did he "whiff"?
>>19728650It's a KWAB for me (Kew What A Banger)
>>19728650>last Nitro of original Russo era>last ever Bret Hart match (before his WWE nostalgia run a decade later)>Snuka injures Jarrett, Hart finally realises he has a concussion, so the entire Souled Out card gets rewritten>also the last Radicalz appearance on Nitro as the backstage stuff blows up in the following weekOne of the most important nights of the Monday Night Wars tbqhwy. Shit card doe.
I’m always trying to figure out when I stopped watching nitro. This would had been a skip for me but I was definitely still watching at this point.
>>19728650Russo's entire run was a whiff.I get what he was trying to do. WCW needed guys to be pushed up the midcard into the main event. It needed stars. Its success was built off the double whammy of being based around big names who were aging out coupled with the fact that the one talent they did push, Goldberg, sucked all the oxygen out of the room in a way where they couldn't get anyone else over. You can't build stars when it's guaranteed that other guys are going to beat them.But Russo only worked well in WWF because he had a filter. A lot of his ideas were dogshit, and he leaned into an edginess that was a major turn-off to WCW fans who watched WCW instead of WWF precisely because the latter felt like garbage under Russo's tenure.I loved WCW and I think it gets a bad rap based on WWE's rewriting of history. And I do think it might have survived if it hadn't been sold to Vince and that wrestling would be in a stronger position because WWF would have otherwise never had the market domination it ended up attaining. But talk about mistake after mistake after mistake.
>>19728650why tf does Double J have so many matches against geezers?
>>19728650The Brett v Nash match actually finished in a no consent. That’s a typo.
You're telling me Chris Benoit referred three separate gimmick matches in a row? Why? How??
>>19728806He gave a good blow jj in his younger years
>>19728806Russo was really proud of the pun "Old Age Outlaws" so he decided to give the stable a mega-push.
