But he thought Hogan was the greatest wrestler, of course it made sense he joined the nWo. Probably a dream come true for him to leave the WWF and join the faction trying to destroy the only place he could work at that point.
You're not the only one. A lot of fans didn't even know until either Flair or Piper (can't remember) spilled the beans and called him hogan's "barber" friend.
Xavier Washington me either bro. I didn't even know a whole lot of who Brutus Beefcake was. sure i seen the character n the gimmick only not much to know who he was a wrestler.
NikateeN lol u know I do recall that response only I think I could of swore it was ultimate warrior that said that. it was shortly before Disciple defected to the OWN.
Thanks! Norton was cool as hell. A legitimate tough guy, not like a lot of these pretty boy wrestlers these days. He should have done a lot more in the company but was held down.
+Michelle Lincoln I heard they were still good friends bagwell had a bad car accident a few years ago and Scott was there for him in the hospital with him it was around 2012 or so but I remember hearing that story
Nice video. Just a quick correction though, Mike Rotunda was Michael Wallstreet in WCW in 1990, and he took that character to WWF and morphed it into IRS. He didn't take his WWF persona to WCW, he went back to WCW and resumed the same character he started years earlier.
Before that, he was called V.K. Wallstreet which was a forgettable name, but I guess WCW had to change the name from V.K. Wallstreet to Michael Wallstreet
Jeff Jarrett as nWo 2000's leader was a horrible idea. It still boggles my mind why he got shoved in the Main Event. ...and then pickep up a Shovel in NWA-TNA 😅🤦♂️
The Vincent/Shane naming was a retaliation, the WWF gave him the name Virgil to make fun of Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Riley Runnels Jr.) who was the Head-Booker of WCWat that time
Jason TWFS Bassett I disagree. When Sting joined NWO we got the old talkative Sting back and I loved his colors. When he joined the Wolfpack it is what put WCW over for a bit. Idk maybe it was just me. But I love all of what sting does lol
The writers of WCW must have figured if they didn't have anything to do with certain heavyweights they would have them join NWO. And the last year of the NWO was a mix of bums and top talent which made no sense.
Jason 'Psychedelic Doughnut' Bassett Lex Luger wearing any type of nWo shirt was disappointing too!! I think the entire wolfpac experiment was a failure. I was on board at first until Lex and Sting joined and it basically became the nWo babyface faction
lovin' the vids man! Subbed a long time ago and don't understand why more people haven't. You deserve many more views and subs and I hope you get them soon
Great vids! By the way, I believe that the Michael Walstreet gimmick was a re-hash of his other gimmick while in WCW as part of a corporate-style stable with Terry Taylor (Terrence Taylor). This would have happened before his stint with WWE as IRS.
While it is true that they were kinda rehashes from back in the day, but the whole gimmick was due because of Michael Douglas' portrayal of "Gordon Gekko" in Wall Street. That's how he got the name... yeah, wrestling people aren't too smart... :p
Best members: Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Eric Bischoff, Macho Man Randy Savage, Syxx, Dennis Rodman (made the nWo more mainstream and cool), Scott Steiner (Really helped establish him as a star), Nick Patrick (great for the evil referee gimmick), Rick Rude (Great as a manager), Ted DiBiase (great as a manager), Elizabeth (great as a manager). Average members: The Giant (Decent, but never stayed long. Although, his first incarnation was the best), Vincent (okay as a manager), Buff Bagwell, Konnan, Scott Norton (Should've gotten more out of it), nWo Sting (great in the Hogan/Sting storyline), Curt Hennig (Okay, but probably would've fit more well with the Horsemen), Worst members: V.K. Wallstreet, Stevie Ray, Horace Hogan, The Disciple, Dusty Rhodes, Louie Spicolli, nWo Japan members, Ray Traylor/Big Bossman, David Flair, Disco Inferno, and most members of nWo 2000 that included Jeff Jarrett, Creative Control/Harris Brothers, and Bret Hart. Looking back, Lex Luger & Sting were awkward additions to the nWo Wolfpac as well.
You forgot Rick Steiner in the worst members. Yes, he was in the nWo briefly, during the nWo's slow wheezing death in '99. He was so forgettable, people remember VK Wall Street and Big Bubba more than him.
Ahhh, good ol' Double J, Jeff Jarrett..Ain't He Great????!?! Man, I loved that line from his manager in WWF lol. Also love how at Unforgiven '98 this tool participated in a single-song "concert" smack-dab in the middle of the card, preceding an Inferno match, ha! Slightly off-topic, & for this I apologize, but another well-deserved thank you in the on-going trend of excellent wrestling vids you've been putting out.
Never was a fan of Jeff Jarrett's. It all started with those awful WWF promos where he spelled his name out for everybody. "That's J-E-Double-F-J-A-Double-R-E-Double-T." Ugh.
+TripleRp Maybe, but this was also a time in wrestling when they were allowed to say any and every derogatory term in the book. It definitely came off as "fruit" to me.
Yeah, but "fruit" sounds stupid. I would tell Stevie Ray "don't say that, go with fluke." Hey I'm all about ECW and the Attitude period in wrestling so I can dig it.
You forgot to mention that Michael Wallstreet was also called V K Wallstreet. If those initials look familiar, they should. It was another jab at Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
It made zero sense to have Giant, Macho Man, Sting, Luger and several others join the NWO... it just didn’t fit the storylines from the previous several years and it made the “gang” too big... a lot of people say it’s hindsight but I truly remember feeling like they were f’ing things up while all of this was happening... really screwed up a good thing. That was the bitter end of my days as a wrestling viewer... just never got into the WWE attitude era which ended all the good stuff like actual heels, faces and cool characters.
Aside from his feud with DDP, Savage became a jobber when he joined the nWo. It was pathetic. If you can find it, look at his win/loss record since joining them in '97.
He was putting people over though like Hogan should have done with younger wrestlers like BATB 2000 when Hogan REFUSED to lose to the much younger Jarrett. Savage at least was providing pushes to up and comers.
Mr. Wallstreet was Wallstreet before he joined the WWF as IRS. He was part of an early 90's faction known as The York Foundation, run by Alexandra York (Terri Runnels at the time).
He fit better than Booker-T in that reboot as he was buddies with Nash and X-Pac. If he would have went to WCW in 1996-1997, he would have been in the original NWO as part of a four-man Wolf-Pac with his Kliq buddies.
I would love to see a video on NWO ELITE... It was birthed by the finger poke of doom but not sure where it exactly ended... I do not it's storyline had became very confusing from the beginning... 😃 GREAT VIDEO BTW!!!!
+NikateeN Exactly bro!!! That was when I switch to RAW.... But now that I look back at it.... It was actually sweet! Nash said in an interview that it was gonna be an 8 or 9 month run... Sadly it didn't finish....
If WCW had their way the NWO Elite would have been one of the best ideas for them They were supposed to be top heels to be fed to Goldberg to help him become bigger without the streak. Similar to heels like Big John Studd being built up and fed to Hogan in the 80s.
The Giant was the most disappointing member. He was terrible on the mic, wasn't cool and it took away a guy that should have feuded against them. Plus it didn't make any storyline sense to have him join. He got screwed by Hogan, Hall and Nash from the Title so he should have had extra motivation to destroy them. Not to mention he was the beginning of watering down the effect. nWo should have stuck being top WWF guys, not brought in WCW guys. The angle started off trying to appear as if WWF was coming in to kick WCWs ass literally, Giant and then Fake Sting ruined it, Buff Bagwell made sure it was ruined. By the time Buff joined up, the entire thing was overdone and should have been ended.
Fuck this was my favorite time ever in wrestling...and though the nWo members on this list weren't the best... I still kinda secretly liked them as an nWo-ite.....4 Life!!!
IMO they should've kept it strictly to "invaders" instead of swelling it with half the roster. What was the end game if they were going to try and convert the whole locker room? Who would be left to fight? The heel turns for those who had already feuded with the nWo, and I am including Hogan, Savage and Bischoff, as well as Luger and Sting eventually joining the "good" nWo, all just served to weaken the original premise, I remember thinking even back then (and I didn't read any behind-the-scenes stuff back then). In my ideal version, Hall, Nash, then Syxx, DiBiase, Virgil and Adams, all well-known WWE characters, should've pretty much been it, unless they were able to add other, recognizable talent directly from WWE or ECW. Like, of course, Brett Hart, who could come in ready to take on any "establishment" wrestling promoters and would be aligned with a destructive force. Keep DiBiase in a role of using nWo threats and terror to "negotiate" things for them from wCw. The nWo Japan guys could've worked into this still - that was pretty cool. It would've kept a lot more options open, too. You still would've had the Horsemen and the Dungeon as heel stables who would've mostly stayed out of each other's business, while your main draw faces (Hogan, Savage, DDP, Sting, Warrior) could mix and match against any of the heel stables all the time.
Dude double j in the wwf as the country star was some of the funniest comedy I've ever seen wrestling wise. And the roadie man. Thank god for the network
This is my top ten worst nWo members 10. Bret "Hitman" Hart (Hollywood And 2000) 9. Lex Luger (Wolfpac) 8. Miss Elizabeth (Hollywood) 7. Jeff Jarrett (nWo 2000) 6. Stevie Ray (The Hollywood B Team) 5. Shawn Michaels (nWo 2002) 4. Booker T (nWo 2002) 3. Disco Inferno (nWo Elite) 2. The Harris Brothers (nWo 2000) 1. David Flair (nWo Elite)
David Flair's crazy gimmick was pretty good for what it was though. Also liked when the booked David to get beat up every week just for the Horsemen to save his U.S. title. It made sense and it was entertaining.
Basically, the popular opinion was that nobody should have been in the nWo except the original trio. But Randy Savage, Syxx, Buff Bagwell, Konnan, Scott Norton, Dennis Rodman, Curt Hennig, Scott Stiener were my favorite members besides Hogan, Nash & Hall. I liked all versions of the nWo, including the Wolfpac & 99' Elite. All except the 2000 Jeff Jarrett version and the post Wrestlemania 18 version. Everything from 1996-1999 I liked. There's barely any nWo members I strongly thought shouldn't have been in the group except Big Show.
You forgot Big Bubba Rogers/Ray Traylor, Great Muta, Masahiro Chono, Scott Norton, Dusty Rhodes, Konnan, Lex Luger, & to a certain extent Sting. He had all of his major success outside of the NWO.
Mike rotunda was an excellent wrestler, unfortunately office decisions did not put him over, he was better and more creative than Flair, Virgil I never understood his push
I actually liked the Stevie Ray Vince B Team storyline from 99 but overall the NWO started out great but they went overboard with guys joining and leaving for no reason.
Scott Norton. Sure the guy had a pretty good run in WCW. But, I don't think he should have become just another B-Team member. The guy was one of the few wrestlers that I found legit scary growing up and would have been a perfect enforcer for NWO's big 3.
Oh Lord, where do I start? Kurt Hennig, Rick Rude, The Nasty Boys, Sting, Lex Luger, the angle went on WAAAAY too long. After Hogan lost the belt, that should've been the end of the nWo.
+Athrough Z The Nasty Boyz weren't actual official members. They were just swerved by Hogan into thinking they could join. Hogan actually pitched the idea of having them be members, but the Nasty Boys didn't want to be part of it. There's even a rumor that even Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Earthquake/John Tenta was even considered who were also Hogan's close personal friends.
The main downfall of nWo is how they just let anybody in, like it completely devalued the team as a whole knowing that basically anybody can make it. If they stuck to just like the original guys, Hall, Nash, Hogan, Steiner, giant, macho man, syxx, and hennig. And maybeee bishop, but no more than that, honestly It probably would’ve been the best just with the original 3 tho
Before he was Disciple, beefcake went by six other gimmicks in WCW 1. Brother BrutI 2. Butcher 3. The Man With No Name 4. The Man With No Face 5. Zodiac 6. Booty Man
This entire list was filled with disappointments. The nWo should have never grown into so many iterations and factions like it did. It should have been Hogan, Nash, Hall, Savage, Giant, Steiner, Norton and Vincent as the blowhard. Bischoff should have never joined them, same as Bret, Sting, Konnan, Jarrett, etc.
NWO should've been all top and mid stars from WWF. Then they could've picked top and mid stars from WCW to make them bigger stars later down the road. It was cool for Virgil being there but his name sucked. He should've just been called 'V' and Boss Man should've gone with his real name Ray Taylor. Also, Brutus should've right away been allowed membership. Y2J would've been great and DDP. Stevie Ray, Norton, Double J, and a few others had no business joining. EDIT: The NWO angle for JJ saved his career in my opinion because he was never anything great in WWF or WCW. I still don't know why or how he got that big gold belt but then again around that time, the championship didn't mean anything... kinda how the titles in WWE nowadays don't mean anything.
I agree about Jeff Jarrett. He was part of what was wrong with the WCW to begin with, him being Vince Russo's "chosen one" and all. Just horrible storylines back then, and nWo 2000 as a whole was forgettable.
John Smith the version in ‘99 was the wolfpac (minus sting and macho man) and Hollywood as one faction and they considered it nWo Elite (what the wolfpac side went by) and B-Team (what the Hollywood side went by)
I don't know why Jeff Jarrett Is so hated, his TNA DVD is 4 hours of great to excellent wrestling. I also get to talk to him and he is very passionate about wrestling and quite humble for the success he had in wrestling.
Probably because he was shoved down our throats in WCW during 1999-2000 as "the chosen one", it was quite sickening to be honest. I didn't mind him as much later on down the road in TNA.
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Bret Hart should have never been part of the nwo in my opinion.
Snbdbe Ynsn hogan couldn't have him showing him up. We all know Bret would've owned the WCW if he was handled better
Snbdbe Ynsn dissapointing nwo members>John cena tho
Disappointing nWo members >>>>> Roman Reigns tho
Agreed!! Seeing him bow down to Hogan & be Hogan's lackey made me wanna vomit!! The Hitman deserved so much better than that!!
But he thought Hogan was the greatest wrestler, of course it made sense he joined the nWo. Probably a dream come true for him to leave the WWF and join the faction trying to destroy the only place he could work at that point.
Randy Savage should've never been an nWo member. For God's sake he was the first guy they betrayed at Bash at the Beach '96
RayTraylor I always thought that too. Savage should've been the face and leader of the WCW.
RayTraylor Savages nWo gear was cool tho
RayTraylor he is a great heel though. His program with DDP was awesome, especially the Halloween Havoc.
I always thought he did it just to sabotage them.
RayTraylor I agree
Almost 20 years later and my mind is blown that the barber was the disciple lol
Your stupid
Me too
Me too
Ditto
I'll tell u, i had no clue Disciple was Beefcake for a long ass time, his buird and new hairstlye threw me off
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You're not the only one. A lot of fans didn't even know until either Flair or Piper (can't remember) spilled the beans and called him hogan's "barber" friend.
Xavier Washington me either bro. I didn't even know a whole lot of who Brutus Beefcake was. sure i seen the character n the gimmick only not much to know who he was a wrestler.
NikateeN lol u know I do recall that response only I think I could of swore it was ultimate warrior that said that. it was shortly before Disciple defected to the OWN.
until this day of just looking at this video i didnt even know... damn
I loved Scott Norton, guy never got the recognition he deserved. Big strong looking bastard. Great in Japan too. Cool video!
Thanks! Norton was cool as hell. A legitimate tough guy, not like a lot of these pretty boy wrestlers these days. He should have done a lot more in the company but was held down.
+Michelle Lincoln I heard they were still good friends bagwell had a bad car accident a few years ago and Scott was there for him in the hospital with him it was around 2012 or so but I remember hearing that story
+Brian Stone now buff bagwell is a gigolo in las Vegas so I guess he's doing well now lol
+NikateeN I gotta be honest though Scott Norton was also a weak member of the nwo but like you said he wasn't used or booked properly
+Michelle Lincoln I can agree with that makes a lot of sense
The Barber was the Disciple?!?
Brb...gotta pick up the pieces of my brain.
He was also wcw's version of the zodiac in the dungeon of doom
I had no idea as well rofl
"Yes! No! Yes! No!"
and the man with no name and the butcher and big brother booty and the booty man
thatcannonguy dissapointing nwo members>John cena tho
Nice video. Just a quick correction though, Mike Rotunda was Michael Wallstreet in WCW in 1990, and he took that character to WWF and morphed it into IRS. He didn't take his WWF persona to WCW, he went back to WCW and resumed the same character he started years earlier.
True. He was also VK Wallstreet.
Before that, he was called V.K. Wallstreet which was a forgettable name, but I guess WCW had to change the name from V.K. Wallstreet to Michael Wallstreet
Jeff Jarrett as nWo 2000's leader was a horrible idea. It still boggles my mind why he got shoved in the Main Event.
...and then pickep up a Shovel in NWA-TNA 😅🤦♂️
He was russo’s buddy.
You forgot that one J-brone, I think his name was Hulk Hogan. Dude really held the group back. NWO coulda been huge if not for him.
how about disco inferno it was disappointing that he even was a member
rob jackson dissapointing nwo members>John cena tho
If John Cena Was In WCW's NWO, He Would've Been No Higher, Bigger Than Scott Steiner. Buff Bagwell Or Curt Hennig Were.
I'm watching Reliving the War, Disco's nWo run was the epitome of pointless. He just got in, did nothing and then the nWo slowly faded away.
The Vincent/Shane naming was a retaliation, the WWF gave him the name Virgil to make fun of Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Riley Runnels Jr.) who was the Head-Booker of WCWat that time
That's funny. WCW and WWF always took these little cheap shots at each either!
Christian Vogt > To me as a 10 year old kid, I thought it was a fitting name for a black servant. I'm going all the way back to late 87 or early 88.
Oh, Thanks Clearing That Up.
NikateeN In fact that was kinda WCW habit in the 90s them copying the WWF as similar as possible without running into lawsuits.
By the way I'm watching the whole Wrestling Talk playlist. Thanks for the content Nikateen! 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
I love ur videos I can tell u are a true wrestling fan and not just some dude who talks about it!Keep up the great work!
Thanks! Wrestling fan for 22 years! Still watch it to this day even though it's changed so much...
Sting in the Wolfpack was disappointing
Jason TWFS Bassett but wolfpac stings red face paint was awesome but yeah he did not do much
Jason TWFS Bassett I disagree. When Sting joined NWO we got the old talkative Sting back and I loved his colors. When he joined the Wolfpack it is what put WCW over for a bit. Idk maybe it was just me. But I love all of what sting does lol
The writers of WCW must have figured if they didn't have anything to do with certain heavyweights they would have them join NWO. And the last year of the NWO was a mix of bums and top talent which made no sense.
Jason 'Psychedelic Doughnut' Bassett Lex Luger wearing any type of nWo shirt was disappointing too!! I think the entire wolfpac experiment was a failure. I was on board at first until Lex and Sting joined and it basically became the nWo babyface faction
no it wasn't wtf
lovin' the vids man! Subbed a long time ago and don't understand why more people haven't. You deserve many more views and subs and I hope you get them soon
Thanks!
Great vids! By the way, I believe that the Michael Walstreet gimmick was a re-hash of his other gimmick while in WCW as part of a corporate-style stable with Terry Taylor (Terrence Taylor). This would have happened before his stint with WWE as IRS.
While it is true that they were kinda rehashes from back in the day, but the whole gimmick was due because of Michael Douglas' portrayal of "Gordon Gekko" in Wall Street. That's how he got the name... yeah, wrestling people aren't too smart... :p
Malcolm Boyd dissapointing nwo members>John cena tho
pro_ wrestling232 what?
Best members: Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Eric Bischoff, Macho Man Randy Savage, Syxx, Dennis Rodman (made the nWo more mainstream and cool), Scott Steiner (Really helped establish him as a star), Nick Patrick (great for the evil referee gimmick), Rick Rude (Great as a manager), Ted DiBiase (great as a manager), Elizabeth (great as a manager).
Average members: The Giant (Decent, but never stayed long. Although, his first incarnation was the best), Vincent (okay as a manager), Buff Bagwell, Konnan, Scott Norton (Should've gotten more out of it), nWo Sting (great in the Hogan/Sting storyline), Curt Hennig (Okay, but probably would've fit more well with the Horsemen),
Worst members: V.K. Wallstreet, Stevie Ray, Horace Hogan, The Disciple, Dusty Rhodes, Louie Spicolli, nWo Japan members, Ray Traylor/Big Bossman, David Flair, Disco Inferno, and most members of nWo 2000 that included Jeff Jarrett, Creative Control/Harris Brothers, and Bret Hart. Looking back, Lex Luger & Sting were awkward additions to the nWo Wolfpac as well.
What about Brian Adams (Crush in WWE)? He never really amounted to much, he was one of those guys who were just there.
You forgot Rick Steiner in the worst members. Yes, he was in the nWo briefly, during the nWo's slow wheezing death in '99.
He was so forgettable, people remember VK Wall Street and Big Bubba more than him.
Ahhh, good ol' Double J, Jeff Jarrett..Ain't He Great????!?! Man, I loved that line from his manager in WWF lol. Also love how at Unforgiven '98 this tool participated in a single-song "concert" smack-dab in the middle of the card, preceding an Inferno match, ha! Slightly off-topic, & for this I apologize, but another well-deserved thank you in the on-going trend of excellent wrestling vids you've been putting out.
Never was a fan of Jeff Jarrett's. It all started with those awful WWF promos where he spelled his name out for everybody. "That's J-E-Double-F-J-A-Double-R-E-Double-T." Ugh.
and his stupid blinking glasses!
GGOONNEE
LOL I remember him spelling his name all the time I gotta admit I liked it as a kid it was pretty catchy lol
BawesomeBurf hated double j. he sould ve been a mid card tag team wrestler at best. he got ic title run because of his name.
BawesomeBurf the fucker was boring and never over. The only thing anyone remembers is him getting his ass beat by chyna
Also Woot for "Dubble Jay" Look at those sun glasses he dgaf. Great show as always nikateen! Keep up the good work.
Hey thanks a lot!
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Sting, Disco Inferno, Shawn Michaels, Bossman, Barry Windham, and Bret Hart
@hitek9wittafulclip He was a member of the NWO Wolfpac. Video doesn't specify Black and White.
Bro that slap jack thing was confusing you just cleared up childhood trauma
Remember when Stevie Ray always called his opponents "fruit booties"?
I thought it was "fluke booty."
That was hilarious!!!
I call people that from time to time 😆
+TripleRp Maybe, but this was also a time in wrestling when they were allowed to say any and every derogatory term in the book. It definitely came off as "fruit" to me.
Yeah, but "fruit" sounds stupid. I would tell Stevie Ray "don't say that, go with fluke." Hey I'm all about ECW and the Attitude period in wrestling so I can dig it.
Jamal Washington dissapointing nwo members>John cena tho
You forgot to mention that Michael Wallstreet was also called V K Wallstreet. If those initials look familiar, they should. It was another jab at Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
Gotta say Great Muta or Dusty Rhodes. Legends outside of nWo but forgettable in the group.
Love your videos Nicotine!
Thanks a lot!
Have you ever noticed how Doug Dillinger is like the worst security guard ever!
It made zero sense to have Giant, Macho Man, Sting, Luger and several others join the NWO... it just didn’t fit the storylines from the previous several years and it made the “gang” too big... a lot of people say it’s hindsight but I truly remember feeling like they were f’ing things up while all of this was happening... really screwed up a good thing.
That was the bitter end of my days as a wrestling viewer... just never got into the WWE attitude era which ended all the good stuff like actual heels, faces and cool characters.
Aside from his feud with DDP, Savage became a jobber when he joined the nWo. It was pathetic. If you can find it, look at his win/loss record since joining them in '97.
He was putting people over though like Hogan should have done with younger wrestlers like BATB 2000 when Hogan REFUSED to lose to the much younger Jarrett.
Savage at least was providing pushes to up and comers.
Mr. Wallstreet was Wallstreet before he joined the WWF as IRS. He was part of an early 90's faction known as The York Foundation, run by Alexandra York (Terri Runnels at the time).
Shawn Michaels He was one of my favorites but I just don't feel that he fit in that well.
Feed Me Morons dissapointing nwo members>John cena tho
Feed Me Morons he should have been the leader. not Nash
Feed Me Morons that retarded Barrett hat he wore
"Kliq" factor...that's probably why.
He fit better than Booker-T in that reboot as he was buddies with Nash and X-Pac. If he would have went to WCW in 1996-1997, he would have been in the original NWO as part of a four-man Wolf-Pac with his Kliq buddies.
Great vid man,
Thanks!
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I would love to see a video on NWO ELITE... It was birthed by the finger poke of doom but not sure where it exactly ended... I do not it's storyline had became very confusing from the beginning... 😃
GREAT VIDEO BTW!!!!
Thanks! The elite was a roller coaster ride!
+NikateeN Exactly bro!!! That was when I switch to RAW.... But now that I look back at it.... It was actually sweet! Nash said in an interview that it was gonna be an 8 or 9 month run... Sadly it didn't finish....
If WCW had their way the NWO Elite would have been one of the best ideas for them They were supposed to be top heels to be fed to Goldberg to help him become bigger without the streak. Similar to heels like Big John Studd being built up and fed to Hogan in the 80s.
The Giant was the most disappointing member. He was terrible on the mic, wasn't cool and it took away a guy that should have feuded against them. Plus it didn't make any storyline sense to have him join. He got screwed by Hogan, Hall and Nash from the Title so he should have had extra motivation to destroy them. Not to mention he was the beginning of watering down the effect. nWo should have stuck being top WWF guys, not brought in WCW guys. The angle started off trying to appear as if WWF was coming in to kick WCWs ass literally, Giant and then Fake Sting ruined it, Buff Bagwell made sure it was ruined. By the time Buff joined up, the entire thing was overdone and should have been ended.
Plus Hogan threw The Giant off the top of a stadium in '95.....or were we supposed to forget about that? lol
Fuck this was my favorite time ever in wrestling...and though the nWo members on this list weren't the best... I still kinda secretly liked them as an nWo-ite.....4 Life!!!
Juan Lopez i bought the WWE network just so I could watch and relive the NWO era. It's so much better than now a days WWE in my opinion
Juan Lopez dissapointing nwo members>John cena tho
Scott Norton, was another member that was misused. He had a great potential and they kept him on the mid card for very long!
IMO they should've kept it strictly to "invaders" instead of swelling it with half the roster. What was the end game if they were going to try and convert the whole locker room? Who would be left to fight?
The heel turns for those who had already feuded with the nWo, and I am including Hogan, Savage and Bischoff, as well as Luger and Sting eventually joining the "good" nWo, all just served to weaken the original premise, I remember thinking even back then (and I didn't read any behind-the-scenes stuff back then).
In my ideal version, Hall, Nash, then Syxx, DiBiase, Virgil and Adams, all well-known WWE characters, should've pretty much been it, unless they were able to add other, recognizable talent directly from WWE or ECW. Like, of course, Brett Hart, who could come in ready to take on any "establishment" wrestling promoters and would be aligned with a destructive force. Keep DiBiase in a role of using nWo threats and terror to "negotiate" things for them from wCw. The nWo Japan guys could've worked into this still - that was pretty cool. It would've kept a lot more options open, too. You still would've had the Horsemen and the Dungeon as heel stables who would've mostly stayed out of each other's business, while your main draw faces (Hogan, Savage, DDP, Sting, Warrior) could mix and match against any of the heel stables all the time.
Dude double j in the wwf as the country star was some of the funniest comedy I've ever seen wrestling wise. And the roadie man. Thank god for the network
cool video! keep it up! 2 sweeet
Until I saw OSW's Ed Leslie gimmicks video, I had no idea he was The Disciple
I had no idea the Deciple was the Barber!
Holy sh*t Scott norton, Brian Adams, Konnan, buff bagwell, great muta, dusty rhodes, rick rude and the list goes on
This is my top ten worst nWo members
10. Bret "Hitman" Hart (Hollywood And 2000)
9. Lex Luger (Wolfpac)
8. Miss Elizabeth (Hollywood)
7. Jeff Jarrett (nWo 2000)
6. Stevie Ray (The Hollywood B Team)
5. Shawn Michaels (nWo 2002)
4. Booker T (nWo 2002)
3. Disco Inferno (nWo Elite)
2. The Harris Brothers (nWo 2000)
1. David Flair (nWo Elite)
whats the song at beginning
sounds like a sped up lyric-less "hey joe" in the background.
Lmao, yes it does, & it most likely was, knowing how WCW ripped off copyrighted songs, lol! Interestingly though, that was the NWO B Team theme music.
I laughed at 0:15 where everyone on stage has an nWo shirt on except Curt Hennig
David Flair's crazy gimmick was pretty good for what it was though. Also liked when the booked David to get beat up every week just for the Horsemen to save his U.S. title. It made sense and it was entertaining.
It's easy to look back 20 years and criticize it, but who criticized it back then? We loved it.
I had thought that Disco Inferno was terrible in the NWO and didn't really mesh with the other NWO members.
Scott Norton. The man was the wrestling equivalent of a sleeping draught.
im feeling the buff bagwell music
WHOA Dude you left out 1 nWo sting
Walstreet was Walstreet before he was IRS, must not have been familiar with WCW before the Monday Night Wars...
Basically, the popular opinion was that nobody should have been in the nWo except the original trio. But Randy Savage, Syxx, Buff Bagwell, Konnan, Scott Norton, Dennis Rodman, Curt Hennig, Scott Stiener were my favorite members besides Hogan, Nash & Hall. I liked all versions of the nWo, including the Wolfpac & 99' Elite. All except the 2000 Jeff Jarrett version and the post Wrestlemania 18 version. Everything from 1996-1999 I liked. There's barely any nWo members I strongly thought shouldn't have been in the group except Big Show.
nwo was my childhood then starcade 98 happened, finger poke,Russo and JJ booking,Spinoff LWO... went to Raw and never turned back.
my friend Louie spiccoli for a bit...nash and hall really took a liking to him and wanted him to join the group
wasnt mashiro chono and the great muta nwo too, i think they was a fail because i didnt see him ass much
deuce of spades it was Nwo Japan they expanded the group over there
I Think Masahiro Chono & The Great Muta Were The Smallest WCW World Heavyweight Champions In History.
What about a list of wrestlers who should have been in the N.W.O., like N.W.O Zeus, N.W.O Benoit, Chris Jericho, etc.
I know that the latter two got pissed off with the gimmic. They got sick of it so they got the hell out of there.
Mike Rotunda was Michael Wallstreet before leaving to go WWE and wrestling as IRS.
Curt Hening and Bret Hart were so disappointing as nWo members
You forgot Big Bubba Rogers/Ray Traylor, Great Muta, Masahiro Chono, Scott Norton, Dusty Rhodes, Konnan, Lex Luger, & to a certain extent Sting. He had all of his major success outside of the NWO.
Nice video
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Mike rotunda was an excellent wrestler, unfortunately office decisions did not put him over, he was better and more creative than Flair, Virgil I never understood his push
goerge ruth rotunda was my favorite character in the old 8bit wcw Saturday night game
I actually liked the Stevie Ray Vince B Team storyline from 99 but overall the NWO started out great but they went overboard with guys joining and leaving for no reason.
What about big bubba?
I have a idea for a review do ECW have toy figures? If they do could you review them.
Akiza Izinski 357 they sure did. I still have rvd and Taz.
i would never call jeff jarrett a main eventer but for some reason he is one of my favorite wrestlers lol
Yea he is upper mid card at best but just like you i think he was a great wrestler.
Nice The Great Muta not in the list :)
Scott Norton. Sure the guy had a pretty good run in WCW. But, I don't think he should have become just another B-Team member. The guy was one of the few wrestlers that I found legit scary growing up and would have been a perfect enforcer for NWO's big 3.
Oh Lord, where do I start? Kurt Hennig, Rick Rude, The Nasty Boys, Sting, Lex Luger, the angle went on WAAAAY too long. After Hogan lost the belt, that should've been the end of the nWo.
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The Nasty Boyz weren't actual official members. They were just swerved by Hogan into thinking they could join. Hogan actually pitched the idea of having them be members, but the Nasty Boys didn't want to be part of it. There's even a rumor that even Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Earthquake/John Tenta was even considered who were also Hogan's close personal friends.
V.k. wallstreet was a rib on vince k mcmahon same as vincent and virgil in wwf which was a rib on wcw (dusty's real name)
The main downfall of nWo is how they just let anybody in, like it completely devalued the team as a whole knowing that basically anybody can make it. If they stuck to just like the original guys, Hall, Nash, Hogan, Steiner, giant, macho man, syxx, and hennig. And maybeee bishop, but no more than that, honestly It probably would’ve been the best just with the original 3 tho
6:32 and thank you...
...for watching
So pretty much everybody except for the original three + XPAC
Before he was Disciple, beefcake went by six other gimmicks in WCW
1. Brother BrutI
2. Butcher
3. The Man With No Name
4. The Man With No Face
5. Zodiac
6. Booty Man
love the nwo b team theme
What about big show in both the WCW and WWE incarnation of the NWO
I love Bret Hart so when he quit WWF I was so upset
Million dollar man was a joke in NWO. Dusty Rhodes also.
who wasn't part of the nwo?
Nwo wolf pack I always thought Hogan Luger and Curt Henning looked out of place.
You know everyone trashes Hogan for Bash at the Beach 2000 but to be fair, I wouldnt want to job to fucking Jeff Jarrett either lol
Big Bubba, Scott Norton, Disco Inferno
What is NWO B team?
This entire list was filled with disappointments. The nWo should have never grown into so many iterations and factions like it did. It should have been Hogan, Nash, Hall, Savage, Giant, Steiner, Norton and Vincent as the blowhard. Bischoff should have never joined them, same as Bret, Sting, Konnan, Jarrett, etc.
I think Konnan was ok in the wolfpac. That’s actually the only time I ever thought Konnan didn’t suck.
didnt even mention bryan adams and scott norton.
That NWO song whats it called??
The one playing in the video? It's the nWo b team theme.
Vincent the real Mike Jones.
Scott Norton was severely underutilized in the nWo.
NWO should've been all top and mid stars from WWF. Then they could've picked top and mid stars from WCW to make them bigger stars later down the road. It was cool for Virgil being there but his name sucked. He should've just been called 'V' and Boss Man should've gone with his real name Ray Taylor. Also, Brutus should've right away been allowed membership. Y2J would've been great and DDP. Stevie Ray, Norton, Double J, and a few others had no business joining. EDIT: The NWO angle for JJ saved his career in my opinion because he was never anything great in WWF or WCW. I still don't know why or how he got that big gold belt but then again around that time, the championship didn't mean anything... kinda how the titles in WWE nowadays don't mean anything.
I agree about Jeff Jarrett. He was part of what was wrong with the WCW to begin with, him being Vince Russo's "chosen one" and all. Just horrible storylines back then, and nWo 2000 as a whole was forgettable.
nWo the coolest thing in pro wrestling! so cool that it ultimately killed itself. problem was it had too many people and many irrelevant people.
I think Scott hall should have a group so there would been 3 groups b and w b a r and black and green
I thought Scott Norton should of been the muscle.
What about boss man
IRS was Michael Wallstreet before he was IRS actually
Scott Norton, that dude was a total bloke
Anyone that was part of NWO 2000 that wasn't part of the stable originally, Jeff Jarrett and Bret Hart. NWO in the WWE was pretty bad too.
Jarrett and the Harris brothers were a huge reason I stopped watching wcw consistently among other things like the finger poke of doom.🙄
When the narrator says "B" team.....
What does that mean?
John Smith the version in ‘99 was the wolfpac (minus sting and macho man) and Hollywood as one faction and they considered it nWo Elite (what the wolfpac side went by) and B-Team (what the Hollywood side went by)
I don't know why Jeff Jarrett Is so hated, his TNA DVD is 4 hours of great to excellent wrestling. I also get to talk to him and he is very passionate about wrestling and quite humble for the success he had in wrestling.
Probably because he was shoved down our throats in WCW during 1999-2000 as "the chosen one", it was quite sickening to be honest. I didn't mind him as much later on down the road in TNA.