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I know its cliched, but I've been watching "Reliving The War" and its so true: Starrcade. There wasn't any semblance of competition from WCW prior to Bischoff but once he got the reigns and took over, acquired Hogan and the lot of them, got the NWO over, it was literally a show where it was a make or break moment. It was that one and only time that they literally had WWF against the ropes and by the balls at the same time. Then Starrcade happens where they put a majority of the young and hungry roster in the front fucking row, Nash decides to stay home with Jamal and no-showed the event, the event itself stunk up the place and then the untanned icon Sting finally faced "Hollywood" Hogan for the WCW World title after 18 months of hype and right up the entrances for that match, it was absolutely legendary. And then the bell rang and it was a complete wet fart.
And then the decline from that point was gradual, and when Bischoff left and Russo showed up and took over, it became sudden. Like once that "New Yawk, bro." shit showed up in a mostly Southern/Dixie-centric market, and then Howard Stern's lackeys showed up, Jeff Jarrett running around calling himself the Chosen One, smashing you with a guitar, hitting a very lame shitty finisher and bringing nothing new to the table and is/was and forever will never be anywhere near main event calibre, wasting Mike Awesome and his talents on very shitty gimmicks, the new WCW Nitro set and logo, trying to cash in on the Jerry Springuh/South Park trash and crash TV of absolute nonsense all while being neutered by Turner Standards and Practices, and it just dwindled on and on further and further down the drain. It became so far removed from a wrestling show and making coherent sense and so far up its own ass and so lost in what it was meaning to achieve and accomplish and prove and with the wrestling aspect of the show not even be the driving factor or focal point, it just went to shit.
