
I shuttered
when I heard three of the letters that once stood for what was the greatest
single event in wrestling in it's time and put professional wrestling back
into the spotlight with a new "cool" factor at the time which was never seen
and only equaled to Austin 3:16, that is three simple letter. nWo. And it
gets worse.
It was also confirmed Saturday that Hulk Hogan has resigned with the WWF,
joining the already signed Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, making the three
original nWo members under contract to the WWF. All I can say is Vince is
right, he just injected the WWF with a lethal dose of poison.
Honestly, short term, this might be great for ratings, you bring in people
who can bring in the rating, but long term, you are asking for trouble. How
long will it take for Hogan or Nash to complain that they are not main
eventing or even worse, the Undisputed Champion. I can very easily see Hogan
complaining that Triple H or Stone Cold are nobodies compared to him and that
he demands the Unified Championship or else he will do a typical Hogan, and
storm off into a corner and pout like a little baby. And also Hall and Nash
aren't sweethearts in the locker room either, they have also done their fair
share if making sure people get DE-pushed in favor of them. Also, lets look
at it historically, when the nWo made their impact, it was the one thing you
never thought you would see, Hogan coming out and telling his fans to "Stick
it!" It was the biggest shock of all time, and can you do that in the WWF?
Austin has had a heel turn fail miserably two times in the last 10 months,
The Rock could do it, cause he has the mic skills, but frankly, who would boo
him.
Which wrestlers will get DE-pushed? With these guys obviously being heels,
say bye-bye to the main event Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho and Booker T., have
fun fighting Christian for the European title or even worse, the hard-core
division. And also say bye-bye to possible a RVD, Edge and when he returns,
Chris Benoit, since Hogan and his cronies will want to hold some of these
guys back like they did when they were in WCW, Booker, Benoit and Jericho are
the big names.
And finally, much like when you had the nWo Red and Black, nWo B-Team and the
LWO, what happens then this gets stale? Will Billy and Chuck, Crash Holly
and Funaki become nWo? Or worse, bring Steve Richard's and go the ECE route
with the bow (Blue World Order) Hall and Nash as a surprise in the Rumble
would have been a good surprise to a boring event, but to bring them into the
main event immediately, might be the last straw to some of the wrestling fans
who are into seeing wrestling than storylines. Well Vince, you bragged about
injecting that poison into the WWF, and now you have to deal with it, cause
your poison has no antidote except self destruction, which is what your
locker room will become within 3 months. The bed has been made, now us
wrestling fans must now lie in it.