>>12837186>No one was saying that WCW wasn't absolute shit by the end.Wrong. WCW was shit from the Fingerpoke to mid 2000.
People were sick of the nWo as a single top group. The nWo civil war angle was drawing & Wolfpac was over but the minute they walked that back to just reform as nWo Elite it killed everything. Goldberg's streak ending wasn't capitalised on they fed that heat to Nash who instantly got fed to Hogan literally 1 week later, killing both Goldberg and Wolfpac/Nash. But instead of having it be that Goldberg had to tear back through the nWo again, or form a face superteam with Sting (who should never have joined the Wolfpac), DDP, etc., they went back to fucking Hogan vs Flair. They 'trimmed' the nWo into the Elite and the B-Team who were antidimes but pretty much the main face of the nWo with how little Hogan worked. Almost all the actual draws of the nWo then 'got injured' (refused to lose) and the whole thing just fizzled out. Nobody went over. Nobody defeated the nWo for good. They just stopped.
A 3 year long heel stable takeover angle ended with absolutely no decisive ending, no face victory, no transition to a new heel group (smark choice was always the Flock, it might have worked for a very short while. Wolfpac might if they'd actually made it distinct in some way, Sting going heel or Bret could have been an option). Goldberg's streak was built up then fed into it to justify the reunion & end of Hollywood vs Wolfpac, then nothing was done with this reunion they just retread the same ground as before hoping to milk it out indefinitely.
WCW was legit on an upswing from mid 2000. Goldberg was up-down but had a good program with Steiner. Scott Steiner was a gigadimes heel, they finally found a new heel group with the Magnificent Seven, Booker T and Jarrett broke through to the top, guys like Mike Awesome came in, the kino Sting/Vampiro feud, you had guys like the Natural Born Thrillers coming up. They were finding their feet it just came too late.
