Hunter's Torn Quad

Guerrero won the US Title at Starrcade '96. Raven didn't appear until mid 1997.

It was the best way to turn Hogan face, by having Flair turn heel, which he had long campaigned for. Mortis unmasked has Kanyon at Slamboree of 1998. That wasn't an angle, as much as a worked shoot. Lane was first debuted as a Chris Jericho look-alike. He and Lodi were together for about 6 mnths I think. It never did, at least not properly. I think it was blown off when Rhodes turned on Larry at SB '98. One time Scott caused Bossman to pass out in the Recliner.

It was a trail run for that idea. When it bombed in the ratings, the idea for an all-NWO show was canned. Ironically, the basic idea was for WCW and the NWO to be promoted as two seperate companies, combining for joint super PPV's, much like the WWE brand split.

I don't see how anyone could have rationally thought that. I think the only people who did were delusional WCW fans or staff, who were having fantasies about crushing Vince McMahon.

I remember Watts doing that just after the GAB 1992, for the Omni show where the L-Hvy and Tag Titles changed hands. They pushed the house show like crazy for an hour, which was short sighted, because they were promoting a show that barely 1% of the audience could actually go and see.

And that angle got the most crowd heat of anything WCW did at that time.

I thought it did. When Bischoff reintroduced the Raw title, I thought he pulled out the WCW and NWA lineage out of the WWE title, and it returned to the Raw title? In storyline, once the WWE Title became the property of Smackdown, he had no control over it, lineage and all, whatsoever. Because the WWE Title was now the exclusive property of someone else, Bischoff had no more say over it.

The Raw title has no connection to the WCW or NWA Titles. The WWE Title has that.

That was Brian Pillman at the Clash in January of 1996. Pillman had left the ring to run from Eddie Guerrero, and pulled on Heenan's jacket. Heenan freaked out, because he didn't know who it was, and he had a bad neck. It was a shoot.

There were plans for Norton to defend against Van Hammer at Starrcade '98, but New Japan put the ixnay on that. Negotiating a new contract.

To clarify the Mark Madden-Bill Watts deal, Madden didn't get Watts fired. Watts was demoted, and because he hated that, he gave notice, and it was after that that Madden faxed Watt's comments to Hank Aaron, who then took them to Turner. The funny part about that is that WCW knew about Watt's comments from when they hired him in the first place. And another reason they used Madden was because they wanted, a 'more MTV look'. Quite how a 400lbs pile of crap looks MTV-ish, I don't know. The Steiners left WCW in December of 1992 when their contracts expired, so while they were technically still with WCW at the time of HH they weren't being used.

What does that have to do with anything? Austin and Debra got married in the Spring of 2000 when he was laid up at home with neck surgery. Ignore the pleb. He adds nothing to the threads he's posted in lately.

Its funny you mention it, I figured they would have eventually, but for some reason they decided not to go through it following Havoc 99 ending. Goldberg got a couple of more title shots, but never again did he get the belt back even he was one of their biggest stars. Why? Who knows? Because they always switched bookers and those bookers always wanted to start their own chase for Goldberg to the title and they'd get fired before they saw it through. Another booker would come in and start the process all over and the same thing would happen. To further this, when Bischoff got fired, and before Russo came in, orders from above were given to those in charge of WCW to put together some scenarios that would culminate with Goldberg winning the World title at Starrcade 1999, and then get the mega push in 2000. Then Russo arrived, and we got a pointless and beyond useless rehash of Montreal, and the NWO Part 435,278,900.

Right up your ass would be my guess.

I don't know if the gimmick was Russo's idea, but nixing it was. His bright idea was to eventually bring Rhodes back as Platinum, which would have been a character as close to Goldust as legally possible.

I think that was the first regular 3hr Nitro, so they wanted something big to end it with. What happened is what was meant to happen. Torrie debuted as the blonde woman in those videos that wound up with David Flair turning heel on Ric at SB' 99. Asya was part of the Revolution.

Technically the NWA, but remember Robocop saving Sting from the Horesman ?

How about the Chucky cross-promotion shit ?

No, but Jay Leno getting offense in on Hogan was a close second.

I believe that was the Kensuke Sasaski-One Man Gang US Title deal. New Japan didn't want Sasaski to lose a nobody like Gang, so they did a deal where Gang would cheat to win, but the match would get restarted and Sasaki would get the pin. However, when they aired the match, which was taped right after Starrcade 95 I think, they cut away before the restart, and said Gang had won the US Title.

Vampiro was going to throw Demon into that pit, and Demon would come out as an angel of some type.

They had signed a deal for a series of live specials on NBC, because of the NBA strike. However, the strike was settled at the last minute, and the specials never happened.

That was the Debbie Reynold Casino. Once Vince realised it was a waste of money, they came up with an angle where Austin would blow it up, under the guise of destroying an expensive piece of property that belonged to Vince.

WOW. Who? I have a question for you, also. How was Nash going to do the angle he wanted to do in early 1999 involving Steve Austin and Ken Shamrock? Do you know what I'm talking about? It never got to the point of deciding on who to run the angle with. Owen died before they could get that far. I remember the Nash/Leno angle. I don't think he seriously expected Austin and Shamrock to fight. I think it was just a way to make WWF look weak for not accepting a public challenge.

Just before Owen Hart died, WCW were thinking of running an angle faking a wrestler dying in a plane crash.