[CaptainCrunch]

You know Muta, I thought long and hard on that one, and you're right, in a way it was the greatest transformation of a character ever. At the same time Eric resisted pushing the match between Sting and Hogan for nearly a year and had not only the NWO kick the crap out of the rest of WCW but have a rift between the WCW guys and Sting. When the WCW thought that Sting had joined the NWO because of the NWO sting and have Sting clean house, throw his bat at Lex and simply say "It wasn't me Lex". It was brilliant.


So why didn't I put it in?


Because the payoff was so poorly done. Remember the match finally came, and Sting came down to the ring down the ramp, and Hogan basically kicked his a$$ and pinned him, then Bret came down and restarted the match because he felt the count was fast (which it wasn't).


In the end while the Sting thing was awesome the payoff was the beginning of the end of the NWO as Hogan's politicking, Eric's ego, and the chaos backstage ended up making WCW and Sting look lke doofuses and Bret look stupid.


I still look back on WCW and their continual messing up of everything that they touched with amazement.


They had an elite group in the NWO as the ultimate rebel group, then bloated it, split it and watered it down.


They were handed the hottest potential storyline in wrestling history in Bret and the Montreal Screw job and promptly booked Bret into oblivion and made no money from it.


They had the hottest new talent in history in Goldberg, built up a Hogan vs Goldberg match, gave it away for free because Eric panicked and then let Hogan play politics and wreck Goldberg completely.


At the end of the day the biggest problem was that while the NWO was brilliant, it was basically put in place eventually to protect the older guys who night after night were putting on atrocious matches and eventually the fans picked up on that and watch as the best workers (Radicalz) and the future of their company get disgruntled and leave.