I wasn't around during the monday night war, so i couldn't witness Raw and Nitro at their best (and worst).
I could only watch something years later, and the thing that hit me the most was the sheer "stupidity" in WCW.
Let's put aside strange stipulations, recycled storyline, hot-potatoed titles and backstage politics... those are things even the wwe was guily of.
But what about the actual matches, and expecially their ending?
- count out in a fall count anywhere match
- 3 counts when the actual wrestler isn't pinned at all
- Dq in no dq's, (or the opposite, a clear interference not called a DQ)
- pinfall in strap matches (or winning by dragging the wrong guy)
- 3-count when your own partner pins you in a tag match
This what came to my mind, but i'm sure i read some other strange finish.
Now the first impression is "wcw was run by morons", but i know history is written by the winners, and it will be too easy to label wcw as a stupid show.
So i'd like to know (and to discuss):
- there are many example of bad finishes in wcw matches, or it's just a general exageration made in the years by wwe revisiinist and/or general consensus?
- how it's possible to produce such idiocy (when it happened)? Wcw and the wrestlers did honest mistakes, or just didn't care?
- and, the most important thing, the crowd DID or did not care? Because i don't knkw the crowd "attitude" back then, so maybe they were mostly interested in the story behind the match, rather than a coherent ending. I don't know.
Ps: feel free to discuss wcw's "idiocy" if you want, don't just stick to my questions
I could only watch something years later, and the thing that hit me the most was the sheer "stupidity" in WCW.
Let's put aside strange stipulations, recycled storyline, hot-potatoed titles and backstage politics... those are things even the wwe was guily of.
But what about the actual matches, and expecially their ending?
- count out in a fall count anywhere match
- 3 counts when the actual wrestler isn't pinned at all
- Dq in no dq's, (or the opposite, a clear interference not called a DQ)
- pinfall in strap matches (or winning by dragging the wrong guy)
- 3-count when your own partner pins you in a tag match
This what came to my mind, but i'm sure i read some other strange finish.
Now the first impression is "wcw was run by morons", but i know history is written by the winners, and it will be too easy to label wcw as a stupid show.
So i'd like to know (and to discuss):
- there are many example of bad finishes in wcw matches, or it's just a general exageration made in the years by wwe revisiinist and/or general consensus?
- how it's possible to produce such idiocy (when it happened)? Wcw and the wrestlers did honest mistakes, or just didn't care?
- and, the most important thing, the crowd DID or did not care? Because i don't knkw the crowd "attitude" back then, so maybe they were mostly interested in the story behind the match, rather than a coherent ending. I don't know.
Ps: feel free to discuss wcw's "idiocy" if you want, don't just stick to my questions