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Originally Posted by The Familia
I’m forgetting, but what Happened on RAW in May of 1999 that drove the ratings up past 8? That is a massive number and I can’t remember what triggered that.
I’ve long dreamed of being the booker for WCW in the mid 1990’s. There was just so much talent and potential. It truly is remarkable how WCW died. They had everything in place to put WWF out of business and become what WWE is today but they fudged it.
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It wasn't just the bookers, it wasn't just Eric, or even Vince, though Russo was atrocious. It was the upper card talent that killed it, the refusal of them to give the younger talent the spotlight, and most of all, it was Hogan and Nash and Hall, that killed WCW. Hogan for his backstage games, Nash for booking it for his own amusement and protecting his buddies, and Hall for being a complete idiot at that time.
Even at the height of WCW with the NWO. The actual main event wrestling was atrociously bad, the guys in the main event couldn't work, and they kept hot shotting stuff. The mid card guys put on these awesome matches, and then Hogan had Eric book them into oblivion or made to look like idiots in the face of NWO.
Eventually the mid card guys gave up, the upper card guys didn't give a crap and the main event guys protected their spot. Even if you were a booker you wouldn't have been able to change the culture of the WCW locker room, and wouldn't ever be able to change the downward spiral of WCW. The minute that you put forward the idea of elevating talent into the main event spot or have the NWO lose their spots, you'd be looking for a job booking flights of rubber dog poop out of hong kong.
The biggest mistake in the end for WCW, was keeping Hogan, Nash, Hall in positions of power and beyond their best before label.
When you eventually have a main event of Hogan vs Warrior or Hogan vs Piper in the mid to late 90's you were doomed.