I think the early days of the Bischof's run were really good. He got a lot of Japanese and Mexican wrestlers in and the matches they had blew the doors of anything else on North American TV. Mick Foley had a lot of good matches there too, some better than his WWE run. But yeah, near the end I watched it for the train wreck it had become. Watching live skits go off wrong, seeing Scott Stiener shoot on the company on a live show, seeing guys just totally phone it in.
Hogan turning heel. There was some really silly stuff in WCW, but Hogan turning heel was great. Too bad Heenan ruined it by saying, "Whose side is he on?"
The Big Show, who called himself the Giant at the time I think, that guy showing up was a big deal. Cus he's like a real giant, went around beating all the old heroes. Then a couple years later they did the same thing again with Goldberg and I was like "aight Im done."
the only thing i remember about wcw was it being on while we ate dinner.We had a tv in the kitchen so I would watch some. I like sting and ultimo dragon purely for the way the looked. I was always more of WWF/WWE guy. Keep in mind i was like 10.
I remember when World Championship Wrestling was a television program that aired on TBS that was owned by Jim Crockett, who had a major stake in the National Wrestling Alliance. This was before WCW was a wrestling organization in of itself. And the Four Horsemen consisted of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard, with James J. Dillon as their manager. And the Four Horsemen had all the titles. And then Jim Crockett expanded his business farther than he could afford, and he ran out of money so he had to sell his wrestling empire to Ted Turner, who then turned the program into its own wrestling organization which became known as WCW, and then Turner's boys turned it into complete shit, the National Wrestling Alliance became less relevant, WWF took over wrestling as we know it, it is now known as "sports entertainment", professional wrestling doesn't exist anymore, and Vince McMahon is basically swimming in a sea of money built by destroying his father's legacy and the professional wrestling industry as we once knew it.
Well, now I'm watching old Dean Malenko matches on youtube, so I'm going to say Dean Malenko, because he just kind of came out and was awesome without a whole lot of fanfare. I always appreciated that.
Also, back when Kevin Nash and Scott Hall were doing their thing well, they were fantastic.
Perhaps my favorite memories of WCW were the luchadors. Those people were insane and pulled off some of the most incredibly spots I had ever seen. It is quite sad that mostly for legal reasons WWE won't allow high risk spots anymore. Too many people got hurt. One of the reasons I'm kind of pumped to see how the new Lucha Libre video game turns out.
I was always more of a WWF guy, myself, but I used to really enjoy the Cruiserweight division. There was a lot of talent there that was never really seen before or again in English on that level so it was quite exciting.
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