NWO 2000

[gWIL 0]

On a 2000 episode of Nitro, Bret Hart was facing Goldberg for the World Heavyweight Championship when out come the Outsiders and destory Goldberg. Long story short the NWO 2000 is formed with World Champion Bret Hart, Tag Champions The Outsiders and US Champion Jeff Jarrett. What if this unit stayed together, just the 5 of them and rampaged WCW for a couple months before finally being destroyed. I think it could have worked for WCW if they had gone about it right.

[Jericholic82 0]

well actually it was december 1999 the night after starrcade 99 but you got the gist of it. It may have worked, if Bret didnt get that eventual career ending kick to his head the night before. Scott steiner did later join as well.

 

Goldberg hurting his hand breaking that window hurt it first, then bret had to forfeit the title and it all went to hell.

 

 

It was interesting, but it was another retread of the dead by then nwo angle.

[Guest JMA]

I always thought the New Blood/Millionaires' Club had promise. That's not how things turned out, though.

[cabbageboy 0]

Nah, that NWO had no prayer of drawing money. The concept was dead by 2000 anyway and I doubt guys like Bret Hart even wanted to be associated with the NWO.

[Steve J. Rogers 0]

Nah, that NWO had no prayer of drawing money.  The concept was dead by 2000 anyway and I doubt guys like Bret Hart even wanted to be associated with the NWO.

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Read a Mark Madden piece on WCW.com the night after, now I don't know if it was meant as a kayfabe commentary or a hint of things to come, but Madden seemed to think that the 2000 version of the nWo would be more like an old fashioned stable concerned more with collecting titles rather than the "organization" that all previous nWo incarnations (and the future WWE version) tried to be.

 

Basically going old school stable (Horsemen, Evolution, Hart Foundation, ect) with the nWo name

 

Course injuries and lack of drawing power was the reason the plug was pulled there as probably the biggest angle in WCW's history went out for the final time with a complete and utter whimper

 

Steve

[haws bah gawd 0]

I wanted this to work so badly. I still remember when Goldberg got beat down only for the reformation of the nWo to happen immediately after. A different nWo with no Hogan had a lot of promise, unfortunately, as stated, the kick of death to Bret Hart, and Goldberg being an idiot and bashing in the limo windows with his bare hands, pretty much screwed up the whole thing.

[Steve J. Rogers 0]

Nah, that NWO had no prayer of drawing money.  The concept was dead by 2000 anyway and I doubt guys like Bret Hart even wanted to be associated with the NWO.

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Read a Mark Madden piece on WCW.com the night after, now I don't know if it was meant as a kayfabe commentary or a hint of things to come, but Madden seemed to think that the 2000 version of the nWo would be more like an old fashioned stable concerned more with collecting titles rather than the "organization" that all previous nWo incarnations (and the future WWE version) tried to be.

 

Basically going old school stable (Horsemen, Evolution, Hart Foundation, ect) with the nWo name

 

Course injuries and lack of drawing power was the reason the plug was pulled there as probably the biggest angle in WCW's history went out for the final time with a complete and utter whimper

 

Steve

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Also in the original column Madden actually compared all the gold the nWo was holding to the Horsemen circa 88 (Flair, Arn, Tully and Windham)!

 

Steve

[KTID 0]

They did hold all the gold though.

[Black Lushus 0]

my memory is fuzzy, but weren't there a few new blood members who had no business being new blood members (notably Jeff Jarrett)?

[DangerousDamon 0]

my memory is fuzzy, but weren't there a few new blood members who had no business being new blood members (notably Jeff Jarrett)?

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Yeah. Steiner was also in the New Blood too, and I don't know why.

[Matt Young 0]

Don't forget Norman Smiley.

 

But yeah, I wanted this angle to work as well. Bret'smy all time favorite, and I was a huge mark for Scott Hall, Jeff Jarrett, and the nWo in general. Alas, it was not to be.

 

R.I.P. "The Silver and Black Attack"

[haVoc 0]

Wasn't Russo behind this NWO with Bret as the leader? One of the few things Russo did right over in WCW was finally pushing Bret Hart.

[King Kamala 0]

Another thing Russo did right IMO is he tried to find something to do for the mid card guys to do....granted most of it was bad, but still he at least made some guys who had never captured my attention, interesting.

 

Back to the topic at hand, I kind of hoped the NWO 2000 would work for some weird reason but at the same time I knew it wouldn't. It was just a semi-lame rehash and it really was the last cry of Russo's first stint in WCW.

[Guest [censored]]

The team itself was very solid and could have been quite interesting but it would have been better recieved with a different name or perhaps none at all.