WrestlingTalk - What Made WCW Different?
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Even though they were two companies in the same business, these two power houses of wrestling didn't exactly do things the same way. Today we talk about what made WCW different from the WWF.
The commentators of each company had a different feel, with WCW's emphasizing the sport aspects (Tenay giving trivia about a wrestler's work in other companies, and commentators explaining why a move was being done or how it hurt a wrestler) while WWE would explain the story of a match more.
tenay would bring up Goldberg playing football while the king was obsessed with puppies of Debra.
a lot better quality from wcw and what I would expect from wrestling
Yep when Vampiro debuted you got his whole background in Mexico so you got a clue as to what he was capable of, that he was Canadian and who he'd worked with in the past. Had he gone to WWF you'd have Paul Bearer and Kane digging him up or something and it would have all been about the mystic voodoo vampire stuff.
I miss WCW :(
Alexander Shayatovich Me too. 😦
Alexander Shayatovich Agreed. I miss the competition it gave to WWE. It made both products better.
Alexander Shayatovich wcw was completely different in every way till bischoff
started messing with it, what ended that and made the wcw era obsolete was the arrival of hulk hogan and all the other wwf big names, mean gene, macho man and everyone else showing up made it just like anything else. let me put it this way, when tna lost the octagon for the square ring they lost all originality, i.e.
hulk hogan is that square not just him but others too who caused wcw to lose that aura that something different that made you say, wonder what the z man's up to. so yes wcw in my opinion should have always remained a no hogan zone, that's honestly it I have more but you can't read all day.
Back when wcw pushed WWF and made them work hard.
WWE is now lazy and terrible.
Competition is healthy
j d just like when ea bought the NFL license and Madden has sucked ever since
#AEW
Also, the WWE makes some of the same big mistakes that WCW made in its bad days.
@Ruthless Attitude Entertainment well yes
"Competition is Healthy." - Yes ! Yes ! Yes ! (I totally agree / Ditto.)
When it came to wrestling, the south always did it best. That is why I stuck with WCW to the very end.
The north was always about spectacle.
It's weird to hear that the WWF rings were harder cause on TV the sound the WCW rings made seems harder. I loved that sound.
i think they use to put microphones under the ring. that's an old wrestling trick.
Johnny Skinwalker WCW had the best ring sound
Jay Shoota at least they had that lol
iWork for the wwf around 2007/8 and the right was made of a steal frame with solid wooden planks
Not only the sound, but the bounce. It always came off like the WWF's canvas was more bouncy than WCW's. When guys would get slammed in WCW their body would just splat against the canvas. It looked brutal.
WCW did feel more real back then
Joshua Humes very! Especially when the NWO came on the scene trying to be the shit out of everyone in WCW
No,No,no.
They were so lethargic. ther wrestling looked so fake. I remember NWO storyline.
@@Bountyville424I loved wcw back then.
I remember flipping back and forth between the two. But eventually have into WCW because of the realism. WWE had characters, like Doink and other silly stuff. WCW had those guys use regular names.
I miss WCW bad WCW going away is when I quit watching wrestling period WWF sucks
When Ted Turner owned wcw they had zero chance of failing. Turner had so much money it didn't matter if WCW did good or bad. once Turner sold most of his ownership wcw had zero safety net.
Movies I Grew Up Watching MIGUW I think Turner still regrets the AOL TIME Warner merger to this day
Billionaire Ted: “That’s right. The merger took all my power away. I would like to point out that I am not a hillbilly, and I do not wear cheap suits! See, I owned rasslin! I own old movies. I own old cartoons. I even colorized a few of them too!”
This is why I loved WCW. They actually did their own thing and didn't stick to traditions like he WWE did and still does actually.
I Can't Remember Goldberg, DDP and Booker T there is 3 i remember.
Actually, even though WCW was innovative in production and presentation, they certainly didn't buck professional wrestling tradition. They were the spiritual heir to the NWA territories. WWE has been abandoning tradition since Vince Jr. took over.
Due to this ropes Foley lost his 👂
@Al Yawnez I actually don't know what that comment was made for lol and nobody was spamming so Idk why I posted that
WCW also seemed to do a lot more outdoor venues
I don't get why WWE doesn't do that that's what Made WCW more different the way they presented their wrestling promotion was very unique and innovative
WCW did a lot more outdoor venues because they did a lot of shows in Tampa and Atlanta where you can do stuff outdoors and had the whole "Bash at the Beach" thing which really lended it self to being at an outdoor venue.. WWE based in NY.. did shows in Chicago, Phili.. Canada places like that not really places you can do a lot of outdoor kinda stuff particularly in the colder months.
+I Can't Remember ... WWE did copy ECW with the whole "attitude era" thing and that worked out pretty fucking well for them... they also copied the AWA with the whole "PPV" thing.. that worked out well for them..
now, if im being honest they are starting to look just a little bit like ROH/TNA.. since most there top guys came from there.. couple of examples.. Austin Aries, Booby Roode, Kevin Owens, Rollins, Joe, Aj Styles, TJ Perkins, Cesaro...
wtf? all those guys in the 80's came from companies who had TV! they weren't tiny little promotions.. they were all apart of the NWA.. they were stars of the NWA!! they were well known.. you're an absolute idiot.
NWA had TV deals all across the country, just because each promotion didn't have national TV didn't matter because talent would swap promotions and be seen in other parts of the country.
I always loved how WCW's ring sounded during a bump. Added to the expierience.
WCW felt big , it feltlike monday night football wwf back then was like tennis
I miss WCW. I preferred it way more than WWF/E in the late 90s. It had a lot more style, variation and it was much more unpredictable. WWF/E always felt too organised and had too much McMahon segments and influence, whereas WCW felt like anarchy was breaking loose.
I always dislike when people (WWE) brings up WCW making few stars and they always fail to mention DDP. Just because WWE dropped the ball with him doesn't mean he wasn't usually in the top 5 to top 3 most over guys in the company from 1997 on.
Grab Shiny DDP was, and still remains one of my favorite wrestlers from WCW. I didn't go into specifics on who the WCW developed for themselves but he is definitely one of them, along with Goldberg, Sting, etc.
Sting is another. But whenever WWE talks about the Monday Night Wars they failed to mention DDP and it greatly upsets me. He's actually my favorite wrestler from WCW.
BANG!!! The diamand cutter...
Yeah, WCW Created Stars & During The Invasion The WWE Tried To Sabotage Them By Burying Them & More That Came Over After The Invasion.
@@NikateeN Greenberg was big in name and hype only. His matches were boring and usually sucked. He had a good match with Page at a PPV and good one with Raven on Nitro, but that's it. Greenberg sucked.
The music of both companies was very different
WWE Music Was So Much Better Had Great Theme Songs For PPVS, PROMOS, ENTRANCES That Especially Fit The Superstar. WCW On The Other Hand Had Mostly Rock Instrumental That Were Boring At Times.
Someone pointed this out on a podcast I listened to years ago, and I agree to some degree: WWF shows usually had a poor undercard with a really good main event. WCW had a really good undercard with a poor main event. That’s one difference between the two during that era.
I think a video like this for ecw would be perfect. After all, they wanted to be different from the wwf & wcw
I always noticed that most of the time WCW and WWF would have the hard cam on opposite sides of the ring. So, usually the entrance ramp would be on the right side in WCW as apposed to the entrance ramp being on the left side in the WWF. A small detail, but it helps distinguish the two a little.
Craig Morrison hey, good observation. I've always noticed it but never consciously thought about it.
It did... i like the ramp on the left better though
That depended on the arena the company was in cuz wcw did both sides of the ramp not just the right
God i miss WCW. Thanks for the trip thru memory lane. Awesome work as always.
WCW for life!
The WWF always had a Babyface champion more times than not. The WCW always had a heel champion more times than not!!!
More videos on the Attitude Era please. It'd be cool to have a video that summarizes the look, feel and culture that was wrestling in 1996-1999 in WCW and WWF.
How about the weird smoky atmosphere WCW had wait that might just be late 90s quality
No, you are right. I notice the same thing. It wasn't on WWF programming at the time.
Tyler King it was probably smokey because of the Pyro
That's just the 90s... there was smoke everywhere! All the time!
They used the smokey look at the more gritty color pallet to give the show a more real vibe. WWF and its vibrant colors was too cartoony...to make it more realistic looking they drained some of the color pallet.
all time low
For me, when WCW died, my fascination with wrestling did also. I loved the raw action WCW had to offer, and many other things that made WCW, WCW. Many other new promotions have tried to take the place that WCW once occupied, but I never felt that they could ever replace WCW. What a shame.
Yes, I remember how WCW was presented like a 1970s or 80s southern wrestling territory whilst the WWF changed with the times.
Kieran Lane also WCW always felt more real even during the WWF attitude era it still felt more like a Gimmick or Cartoony
great work as usual,man, have you considered doing an ECW one?
WCW actually booked heels better. It wasn't until the Attitude Era where WWE started having interesting heels. Also heels typically kept the championships longer in WCW and most faces were mostly transitional champions
Yeah, Since The Monday Night Wars, The Heels Who Had Longer Title Reigns Were Richard Flair (2/11/96-4/29/96) 2 Month's & 3 Weeks_11 Weeks, The Giant 3 Months & 12 Days, Hollywood Hogan 359.Days, Hollywood Hogan 4 Months & 19 Days, Randy Savage 1 Day, Hollywood Hogan 2 Months & 16 Days, Hollywood Hogan 2 Months & 10 Days, DDP 2 Weeks & 1 Day, DDP 1 Week & 6 Days, Randy Savage 1 Day, Sting(9/12/99-10/24/99), Jeff Jarrett 4 Title Reigns In 2 Months & 25 Days, Kevin Nash 3 Weeks & 6 Days, Vince Russo 1 Week, Scott Steiner 4 Months. The Faces Who Had Shorter Reigns Were Randy Savage(11/26/95-12/27/95), Randy Savage (1/22/96-2/11-96), Lex Luger 5 Days, Sting 1 Month & 28 Days, Goldberg 5 Months & 26 Days, Kevin Nash 1 Week & 1 Day, Riic Flair 4 Weeks, Sting Won The Title ,Then Lost It In Less Than 2 Hours, Kevin Nash 2 Months & 2 Days, Hulk Hogan 2 Months Or 1 Month & 31 Days, Bret Hart Was A Face & Heel During His World Title Reign Which Lasted 1 Month & 26 Days, Sid Vicious 2 Months & 15 Days, DDP 2 Days, David Arquette 11 Days, Richard Flair 2 Days, Kevin Nash 2 Days, Booker T 1 Month & 12 Days, Booker T, 8 Days, Booker T 1 Month & 24 Days.
There's a lot of things I loved about WCW. The women were hotter, they had a great cruiser weight division and they were full of surprises. But there are a lot of things I also hated about WCW. They screwed over younger talent, while giving older former WWE talent more freedom. I also didn't like the stupid decisions they made during the years, such as giving David Arquette the belt or the finger poke of doom.
The way you compared WWE and WCW, reminded me of DC Comics and Marvel Comics.
DC Comics is a lot like WWE.
Marvel is a lot like WCW.
DC Comics has more original characters which is equivalent to WWE creating their superstars from scratch.
Marvel basically copies some of those characters from DC which is equivalent to WCW buying WWE talent who were already main eventers.
DC Comics usually never acknowledges Marvel, just like WWE did to WCW.
Marvel always acknowledges DC and talks trash about them, just like WCW did to WWE.
DC Comics usually had to keep up with competition, just like WWE did.
Marvel Comics was innovative, which forced DC to step up and compete or die. Just like WCW was more innovative, forcing WWE to step up to compete or die.
Eric Bischoff is basically WCW's version of Stan Lee. Eric didn't own WCW, but did make the product better. Just like Stan Lee didn't own Marvel, but did make the product better.
Vince McMahon was simply like the multiple creators of DC superheroes. Was more original with his ideas, even if they felt too out of date with the times and needed reinventions(Big Bossman, various incarnations of The Undertaker and Triple H for example).
DC Comics had more recognizable or familiar characters that set them apart from the competition, just like WWE.
Marvel had to be different and set themselves apart from the competition since they knew they were always going to be compared to DC. Just like Bischoff did to WCW, knowing that Vince's WWE characters were animated and cartoonish. So Bischoff made his characters more grounded and reality based.
I actually like both WWE and WCW, just as much as I do DC and Marvel. I like the differences that set them apart.
Ninja-X3 You must be stupid. DC is trash with the exception of Batman who belongs in the Marvel Universe.
Mmm nah
DX Wasn't Am Original Idea. Everybody Knows DX Copied The NWO.
Quit shitting on the FPOD. It was a shocking twist and heel turn for Nash that worked perfectly. It's what followed that makes it look so bad.
@@NeverQuit87 DC is not trash. And Marvel already has their own millionaire playboy with no super powers, but plenty of gadgets. His name is Tony Stark.
the fighting stay in wwf was selling moves more and or for longer than in wcw. with the entrances the WWF music was very important and emphasised more than wcw. like if someone played me a song for many wcw stars i wouldn't be able to confidently whoses it was apart from the odd few like goldberg, flair, nwo, Wolfpack, and sting.
also i feel that wcw lighting alot darker
I noticed how wrestler's entrance themes in WWF/E were more memorable than the wrestler themes used in WCW. I can't remember most of them other than NWO/Wolfpack, DDP's "Self High Five", and Goldberg's theme.
Julian Cavazos I think that's mostly due to the fact that WWF entrance music usually had some sort of phrase in it or sound that made it stand out like Austin's glass shatter or Mankind's car wreck... or it could be the fact that WWF's music always seemed to be a little louder than WCW's.
Ring announcing too wcw u could barely hear penzer during nitro....but wwf u always heard the ring announcer
The ring side bell were so different as well. WWF had a more bright tone to it, while WCW had that dark smoky tone which was awesome !
I definitely agree that WCW felt more unpredictable. Looking back I really like the sense of chaos on air when something's happening in the back and the announcers are told about it, but they (and we as viewers) need to wait for a cameraman to catch everything. This was probably more due to disorganization than anything, but it made it feel real and not just something staged for that moment.
I didn't have cable growing up and wasn't able to watch the Monday Night Wars, but when SmackDown came to regular tv, I was able to watch that, along with Raw highlights. There was also WWF Jacked and I was able to watch WCW Thunder and another Saturday night WCW show.
Back then, I felt that WCW was small time and cheap. The camera filters, exposed barricade, no huge titontrons (regularly) and smaller ring felt cheap. Now, while watching WCW highlights, it feels authentic, nostalgic and homey feeling.
You should've watched it way before the SmackDown era like 95 to 96. The production value of WCW was definitely more top notch than WWF
You had me at camera angles for entrances. Good job on the content.
How the hell did I miss this one? I'm pretty sure I've binged your entire channel... twice. Somehow, this one slipped through the cracks, I guess.
..."If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!"
WCW often referred to itself and wrestling in general as a Sport, or Our Sport. Despite the off the wall storylines, WCW attempted to present itself as sport occasionally.
I went to two WCW Nitros and at the beginning and during the breaks they would tell the audience not to throw trash. But that being said, no one enforced that rule.
I've always loved the sound of the wcw rings
The first time I seen a picture of Ultima Dragon I was blown away by the fact he was holding over 10 championships! Then came to wcw and helped the cruiserweight talent become even more fun to watch, to the point where wcw easily had the best cruiserweight wrestlers out of all 3 major promotions
Yep all those little details you mentioned is what made WCW so unique and successful! I loved the sound of the WCW ring as well when they used to get slammed on the mat.
ropes itself so cheap many of them get injured because of this.. mick foley lost his ear tooo
I love these Wrestling Talk videos!
Also their show was presented differently, WWF was taped while WCW was live. That's the reason why Raw results could be given a few days before the show air on television whereas nobody knew what would happen on Nitro unless you actually tune in that night to watch.
WCW had Norman Smiley and Ralphus. Nuff said
Damn WWF sucked! WCW's presentation was so much better
I agree
WCW could have AND should have beaten WWE BUT the reason they didn't was actually best said by Scott hall
WCW was a television company producing a wrestling show
WWE was a wrestling company producing a Television show
the Quality of the booking was one of the key differences
ironically enough WWE has turned into WCW they are no longer a wrestling company they are an "entertainment company" who produces a wrestling show and the shitty booking and story lines have reflected that change.
if you was mega rich.would you buy wcw and ecw name and bring it back today?.i would like to see them back
You'd need to buy the entire WWE to do that no way WWE would give up the "ECW" "WCW" names and video library etc.. I'd start my own promotion and blend the best of old ECW, WCW and WWE focus on showcasing new talent and predicting future trends in pop culture (like ECW did) lots of pyro (Like WCW did) good long term booking (Like old WWE did)
o I see.i like what you said you would do -_-
A part 2 or 3 would be amazing big bro
I do like how WCW handled the Cruiserweight division. I hate WWE's current concept with the purple. WWE has also typecasted the entire CW division, will be hard to get a CW wrestler over with bigger guys.
i remember the broadcast from the georgia dome with 41, 000 in attendance. goldberg had to beat scott hall and then hogan to win the belt which he did. pure magic.
I love your videos!!
nybb65 thanks!
Actually the mat bump sounds in the WWE/WWF was a cracking thud.
Great video! WCW had wrestlers using their name and less gimmick that the WWF.
2022, what a nice video ♥️
Didn't WWF have some kind of deal with AAA in early '97? I remember seeing a bunch of luchadors in multiple man tag matches and things like that.
Old No.7 You are talking about Royal rumble 97, that was a short deal as far as I remember. They got midget wrestler like mascarita sagrada and cruiser weights.
Also if I remember WWF had a show titled "Super Astros" It featured wrestlers that were under contracts with CMILL.
Jonathan Ra Al Wayne that show was like superstar but of the latinos, here in puerto rico he got that show for a year until it became shotgun.
WWE worked with ECW and NWA in the 90s. I remember Jim Cornette has a stable for awhile for the NWA with NWA wrestlers that'd face WWF wrestlers. I also, recall WWF promoting ECW ppvs and having ECW wrestlers on their shows. While WWF is known for running territories out of business, they have worked with companies in the past and mentioned other companies. Such as in recent years they recognized NJPW.
very enjoyable and non biased.
physique was a major difference. in WCW the wrestlers were in general in a lot better shape than the roster of WWF, which in the day had a lot of fat and out of shape guys like Viscera, Mideon, etc. Even the Big Show (who was in an amazing shape in WCW, making drop kicks and everything) became a fat slob in his run in WWF
I always liked that the jobbers often got in a lot of punches and moves on the stars on Nitro and Thunder. Even if you know Jerry Flynn can't beat Lex Luger, they sure make it look like it for just a little while (unlike early 90s WWF where jobbers almost never hit anything). I recently saw Chavo Guerrero Jr vs Mike Enos from Thunder and I was on the edge of my seat, I had NO idea who would win. Just nearfall after nearfall.
One key difference is that when a wrestler interfered you didn't get that wrestlers theme, It was quiet and didn't feel staged.
great video ur my favorite is wrestling focused youtuber
Jacob Bible thanks a lot!
NikateeN
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WCW had great slow motion highlights after a match. and those expensive camera were on the ring apron during matches
If I ever created my own federation, here's are the requirements I would use for the ring.
• 20 Feet
• A Brown Aluminum Beam & Wood For The Surface
• Black Sheets For The Barricade With The Company Logo On Them
• Black Floor Mats
• White Ring Mat
• Red Ropes (Real Ropes)
• Circular Black Turnbuckle Cushion Pads
• Black Apron Skirts Reading My Federation Name (IWA) (International Wrestling Association)
• Silver Steel Ring Posts
• Silver Steel Ring Steps
4:20 in 1996 Tony schivone and Larry Zbyszko would have their desk near the ring for hour number one for nitro
This was incredibly detailed and well researched. Great editing too!
I loved the replays after a match, a great little highlight to keep the show rolling.... While Vince yelled mantaur on the other channel
wcw featured more 'wrestling' while wwe was more brawling with a few wrestling moves
One thing I’ll always remember is how the cameramen in WCW would get up close to the action, especially standing on the apron while the wrestlers worked in the corner. ❤️
Growing up in GA , I miss WCW (NWA). I was never a huge WWE(F) because even as a kid it was too much of a put on. However, WWE has grown on me over the years, and had WCW "won" the war we may not have any mainstream wrestling today. Nitro was still drawing far better ratings than TNA when Time-Warner pulled the plug. The huge corporation--which Turner at that point had little to do with--didn't want wrestling on their networks no matter how good the ratings were...and whereas all of the mismanagement of money and talent may have gotten a pass from Turner--who was always a wrestling fan--the BIG corporation just wouldn't let it fly. Still, I can't help but to think of what might have been.
Mark Markham I once heard that Nitro still had the best ratings on all of TNT when it was pulled... that's insane if it's true, and just goes to prove that they really wanted nothing to do with wrestling anymore... which is funny since TBS is set to air episodes of Lucha Underground, but not in the US.
NikateeN What's strange too is it's not like WWF was going to stay hot forever, so they easily could have competed again in time
WWE today is a monopoly- aew better start imitating WCW and compete for ratings.
This is the only way the industry will get better at their stories and matches
Here are a couple more differences between the rings between WWF/WWE to WCW
Ring-Posts
WWF/WWE: Steel Posts (Originally)
WCW: Plastic Posts
Turnbuckles
WWF/WWE: Cushion Pads
WCW: Built-In Pads That Came With The Ropes
Apron Skirts
WWF/WWE: Specific Show
WCW: Blank Color (Except For Nitro & The Early 90s)
Barricades
WWF/WWE: Barricade Pads
WCW: Expose Steel Barricades
Ring Steps
WWF/WWE: Fresh Real Steps
WCW: Prop Steps
The theme music. In the early 90 to mid 90''s WWE sounded more original. WCW's some enterances, the music was sung with different Lyrics. Ex. Ricky The Dragon Steam Boat and Sting.
Really digging your wrestling talk videos
michael buffer was an announcer in wcw during main events
They let Scott Steiner say whatever he want leading to his rant on Ric Flair. I loved it but I could see that not going over well with the kids moms at home. WCW did seem more real and often bloody matches. Main bad thing was Hall, Nash, Lex, Henning and even Sting seemed to get really lazy and were not that concerned with actually doing good matches. Randy Savage worked hard as the main exception to this guaranty contracts, most others wanted short matches and shortcuts to end matches.
They way they treated the women's division. It would be cool if you made a video about the women of WWE vs WCW vs ECW!!!
Are you Sega lord x?
Not only the cruiserweights, WCW had a stronger midcard, too, and the TV Title to fit them. There was an endless supply of jobbers and so and so people that you really didn't need on your screen every week but were happy to see once in a while. The likes of Wrath, Kenny Kaos, Jerry Flynn or Lenny Lane.
Also, not everybody always needed a feud. Just let them have some matches here and there to make sure people remember them. This felt more like a competition or actual sport and less like a soap opera.
Wwf attitude era the era of century, crushed all its opponents... in my childhood i was crazy about it..
WCW felt like a nightclub while WWF felt like a nice restaraunt.
Wwf was a war zone bro wcw was all flash
@@silent1267 wwf sucked
@@silent1267 wcw won 83 weeks in a row.wcw was better but in the end wcw killed wcw..well the nwo killed wcw
@@bluesky9333 so what it still sucked
@@bluesky9333 once wwf start beating wcw.. it is buried once in for all ..
I always thought that Vince's overall presentation was a lot better. Even though Turner/WCW was a lot more exciting to watch for a short time in the mid-late nineties, Vince's TV was always more together while being visually cleaner and very well organized.
I liked that big World Heavyweight Champion belt in WCW. Compared to that, the WWF Champion belt looked like something for kids.
Great video bro keep up the good work you got a new fan in me. You covered a lot of important things that other videos have missed; for example, the ring. I subbed.
A big difference during the mid to late 90s was WCW's promos were almost exclusively in the ring with the wrestlers on the mic whereas WWE had their promos pre recorded and backstage. Like mentioned in the video, this gave WCW a more raw/real feel that fans gravitated towards.
Somebody mentioned it below, but I'll say it in a little more detail. WCW had a sports commentary feel. You had the play-by-play of Tony Schiavone (Bischoff not so much because he wasn't very good) calling moves and letting people know what's happening in the match. His color commentators whether heel (Bobby Heenan, Larry Zybysko) or babyface (Tenay, Dusty Rhodes) gave you insight into how the moves felt or what the wrestlers were doing or should do next.
On the WWF side, you had Jim Ross especially in his later years narrating a match. He doesn't say such and such used a steel chair. He says so and so just laid in a sickening THUD with that steel chair. The color men are almost always heels and rather than give insight into the match, they're just there to antagonize Ross or root against the babyfaces. WCW tried to have Mark Madden do the same and it didn't work (not Madden's fault by the way, he was great at getting over how scary Scott Steiner was, but he was legit scared of the guy). They also tried to have Tony Schiavone be like Jim Ross when Russo showed up, but it failed as well because Tony isn't a story teller, he's a baseball announcer (and a great one, his voice has a perfect sports feel to it). When WCW turned into imitation WWF (Russo era), they ended up being a hodgepodge of announcing that just didn't work.
Something that really made Tony stand out was that he called the match like a fan. What I mean is that Tony felt like he believed it was real. When Luger beat Hogan on Nitro for the title, Tony went as berserk as the crowd in Detroit. When Goldberg beat Hogan for the title on Nitro, Tony let the crowd do the talking as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing himself. When Hogan returned to the red and yellow, Tony was just as excited to see Hogan come back as the fans in Idaho. You NEVER get that with Jim Ross. Jim Ross always feels like he knows what he's seeing is fake, but he's going to tell you the story that you're watching. When Stone Cold stuns somebody, it's like oh that Stone Cold, got him again.
Also, WCW shifted their commentators back and forth between at ringside and the entrance ramp. In the early years of Nitro hour 1 was at the ring, then hour 2 was at the ramp. Then, they went exclusively at the ramp for a while followed by exclusively at ringside.
love the incorporation of the themes
Loving the KANYON theme song in the background!
Great vids man. might be too much info but times ive been kicking opiates hard i watch your vids and it takes the edge off lol good shit tho always interesting
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WCW focused more on the athletic aspect of the sport while WWE focused on the entertainment aspect.
You have a new subscriber man, thank's a lot!!
Another great vid, keep up the good work, man
WWF always bought stars in the 80's they just didn't have the money in the mid 90's , WWF made stars like Ringmaster and Rocky Miavia, Austin and the Rock had to do their own thing to save their careers.
entrance music and the "titantron" were also different. WWF had amazing music and "titantron" for each wrestler and that was part of their gimmick; but in WCW the only song that mattered was the NWO and the Goldberg one. the rest of the wrestlers would enter the ring with a very generic tune, or some "regular song" like DDP entering with a Nirvana song
gadget00 Chris Jericho's theme in WCW, Stings Crow into with the little boy talking in beginning, the wolf pack theme, lex Lugers theme, Rey Mysterio Jr. theme! Come on man
Sting had one of the best wrestling themes ever. Those fucking strings are amazing! I was fucking furious when WWE used some generic one for him when he finally signed there.
WWF couldn't keep up with them. They took a lot of ideas from WCW themes
I would say one big thing you didn't mention is that certain big names in WCW famously had "creative control" clauses in their contracts which on one hand protected them as headliners and allowed certain talent to contribute their own ideas to storylines, but at the same time caused numerous problems. In WWF/E, while certain wrestlers have clout, they don't call the shots. Evidence of this is when Austin quit the company rather than randomly put Brock Lesnar over on free TV. Obviously if he had a CC clause in his contract, he could have nixed that.
WCW allowed their wrestlers to perform much more riskier moves, such as the Giant jumping off from the top rope.
in the 80s wcw had better in ring talent than the wwf
I'll agree to that. proper athletes who knew how to wrestle extremely well
Just the 80s? Try all the way into their death
The wcw wrestlers were more badass and could bitchslap all the wwe wrestlers
Nefarious520 defiantly. They looked more scary and opposing
A. WWF / WWE ruined the steel cage match.
1. Bullshit climbing out the cage.
2. Bullshit escaping through the cage door.
3. Wrestlers going up under the ring to get a weapon.
4. Wrestlers in between the ring and cage.
5. Ways to win.
A. Pin Fall.
B. Submission.
C. Tap Out
D. Climbing out the cage.
E. Escaping through the cage door.
B. A true steel cage has a top.
C. wCw did the steel cage match justice.
1. No bullshit climbing out the cage.
2. No bullshit escaping through the cage door.
3. No wrestlers going up under the ring to get a weapon.
4. No wrestlers in between the ring and cage.
5. Only ways to win.
A. Pin Fall.
B. Submission.
C. Tap Out.
awesome videos,keep up the great work
I love wcw I think they should bring them back
WWE also never had David Arquette as it's champion
One thing that I can remember that made WCW different from WWF/WWE was the nWo. That stable about became the entire Ted Turner promotion. Vince McMahon had multiple stables in his promotion. Not one of them took over the entire locker room like the nWo.
Looking back at WCW and WWF/E I feel like WCW had a almost 'real' feeling to it if that makes sense? They didnt have alot of the cartoonish characters like WWF at the time which made it feel legit :)
Well WCW also had cartoonish moments like Glacier, Shock Master, RoboCop angle etc ...
LOL I remember everybody had a pyro entrance in WCW
I miss 1996-1998 WCW