I think it really depended on where you lived. If you lived in the South, there were still a lot of territory guys around that people remembered, so they gravitated toward that more.

>>20136206
Most WCW-chuds left wrestling behind in 2001 and now all we’re left with is WWE-pilled zombies that dominate the majority of today’s mainstream fanbase

>>20136215
Even still, it's really weird to see the Road Warriors referred to as "Legion of Doom" for example, whereas the average person watching today is far more likely to be exposed to their non-WWF work on YouTube because that's what's promoted as their "good" stuff, even by WWE itself

in my experience it was wcw that made wrestling popular with normies. the way it was for me is i had a couple friends and we would watch everything religiously; wwf, wcw, ecw (when possible), gwf on espn, awf late at night, go to local local indies (mewf), etc. but what happened when wcw got popular is all of a sudden all of our friends started watched wrestling. so many so that we started a backyard wrestling league and found other kids who also had a federation and did an invasion angle on them. we also played the shit out of wcw/nwo revenge on n64 afte school. everyone was watching wcw or at least watching both wcw and wwf. interestingly, no one ever said one company was better than the other. they either quietly preferred one or just watched both. console war horseshit wasnt a thing til normies went online

>>20136254
They were called Legion of Doom in WCW too, before they ever went to WWF

>>20136270
The original Legion of Doom was a stable with The Road Warriors, Jake The Snake, and The Spoiler.

>>20136206
Bro they were on the cover of TV Guide

>>20136206
I think there's two reasons for this, one is that WCW died and many of their fans straight up stopped watching wrestling, so you won't be finding them on /pw/. The other is that the monday night wars ended 25 years ago, many people here weren't alive or old enough to watch wrestling back then. They know what happened because they watched it or heard about it later, and naturally they'll have more exposure to WWF stuff because that's what WWE loves to promote.

>>20136227
the day wrestling died

>>20136206
WCW, at it's peak had the UFC's entire fanbase of college frat bros and older single men while WWE has kids and families, who were briefly replaced with edgy teens for the Attitude Era

Shit it was kinda good for a spell in 1997-98. 1997 in particular. Cruiser-weights were fire. nWo was cool (before it got redundant, over-inflated and every Nitro/nWo main event ended in DQ) Midcard was solid. Even Lex Luger was getting some of the loudest pops for that era in 1997. Shit was fire. Real good. Until it wasn't. And it fucking sucked.

>>20136267
This dude the coolest dude here

All I know is that I need people to stop acting like Eric b is relevant in the current world

WCW was popular until Russo took over the writing and made Jeff Jarrett top guy.
For example: Slamboree 1999 had almost 30,000 people in attendance, the Slamboree show in 2000 had something like 3,000 in attendance, give or take.

>>20136267
Nick Mullen had a bit about how all normies stopped caring about wrestling with no more Monday night wars and then losing austin and the rock was the last strike

>>20136267
>so many so that we started a backyard wrestling league and found other kids who also had a federation and did an invasion angle on them.
Kek fucking based, why is it that kids playing in the yard could book better angles than any of the people doing it "professionally" today?

WCW was pretty close to WWF in popularity at it's peak.

But WWF was in a different league compared to WCW outside of that.

>>20138022
no standards and practices. no sponsors to not piss off. no soccer moms to complain

Put it this way; I was at my gym earlier, and I saw on a billboard an NWO logo style for an amateur wrestling club and. It really threw me off.

>>20136206
its a trick question. nitro went mainstream after the nwo invasion angle. nfl players having matches, nba having matches during the nba finals, going on tonight show & bill maher. nwo shirts at the mall & department stores & record/video stores. planet hollywood doing nitro parties. nwo & nitro were cool at the time, doing mtv spring break specials.

wcw didn't get more popular. nitro was getting casual fans marking out for la parka, buff & disco. marking out for the nitro girls, crow sting that never wrestled & goldberg squashing wcw guys in 60 seconds.

the wcw peak was probably hulk signing & parade at disney world years earlier. nwo & nitro didn't prevent the end of house shows and thunder wasn't popular at all.

>>20136206
Huge for about 3 years then fell off a cliff
The Monday night wars were the last truly big thing in wrestling
The NWO was big
The Attitude era was in full swing
both companies were throwing everything they could to try and beat the other
Ultimately WWF won because they could go further than WCW could and WCW fucked up the NWO and had nothing to follow it
Was hoping we might get that when AEW came into being but turned out it was just a bunch of lame faggot indie shit run by a moron who has no fuckin clue what he's doing.

>>20137527
>Even Lex
Lex was a star throughout his entire career. Why does this weird iwc narrative persist

In the 90s, it was huge. Like Fornite-TikTok levels of huge, everyone knew and talked about it.

>>20139470
Oh how could I forget his amazing wwf run and title reign. Oh, right that didn't happen.

Oh, what about after he defeated Hogan on Nitro and had an amazing title reign in WCW. Oh, that didn't happen either.

Over during some points of his career while nothing of substance happened either is the answer youre looking for.

>>20139899
>Over during some points of his career while nothing of substance happened either is the answer youre looking for.
So Undertaker, only better

>>20139919
Undertaker having a Wrestlemania streak, let alone involved in arguably the greatest Wrestlemania match of all-time. Also having the greatest character in Professional Wrestling history completely renders your faggot retort useless.

>>20139950
Wrestlemania is noncanon. It's a everyone goes home happy show for faggots. Undertaker beat nobody during that cornball invalid streak of meaningless matches. Luger has more memorable matches on throw away Nitros and he never injured or ended the careers of people in terrible matches for Saudi blood money. Hogan/Rock was the best Wrestlemania match. So your post and opinion is rendered useless.

>>20139962
>Wrestlemania is noncanon

Stopped reading there. Not interested in the views of a pre-trans faggot.

>>20136267
there was a little bit of console warring back then but it usually wasnt as vicious. like I had this one friend who would only watch WWF and would talk shit about WCW, ECW, USWA, SMW, etc but nobody really got that mad about it. we would argue a little but nobody really got butthurt about those differences.

I lived in the north and watched and loved both. Would probably still be on TV if not for the most retarded merger ever

WCW was kino. I was hoping Tony and AEW would revive that but of course Tony is a retard nepo baby who can't book for shit and arguably made wrestling worse with his guaranteed lucrative mark contracts