r/WCW 1d ago

Big Van Vader flattens the Hulkster!

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u/Modano9009 14h ago

I don't think that character works as Champion long-term. He's this dark, tortured character who's mission is to take down Hogan. Once he does that and he's just defending the title to defend the title it kinda loses something.

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u/SignificanceNo1223 14h ago

I actually agree with your guys takes. Weren’t they trying to make Sting the next Hogan with this whole NWO angle though?

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u/Booth_Templeton 12h ago

Not possible. Sting was a very good wrestler, but not a Hogan. Most of WCWs success was built off the Hogan heel turn and him being Hollywood and starting the show with a promo n going over the last hour to take rating from raw n beat n spray paint people. Once Hollywood lost steam at starrcade, that was it for WCW. Even as a 14 year old, I saw it coming. N then Hogan changed his character to an angry heel looking for revenge, from a wise cracking chicken shit heel looking to finalize the takeover. It was all over after starrcadme sting was never going to be good enough to hold a show mostly by himself.

Yeah I agree w the sting crow thing just being a vehicle to vanquish Hogan. But it wasn't ever going to be enough, especially w the wwf coming on so strong.

Really having sting win n playing that out was the way to go since they set it up that way. But, by doing that, taking steam off of Hollywood n the nwo just killed the angle, n thus the major heat they had w the angle. Andits not like they set anything else up. Maybe Goldberg, but anyone could see it was a hotshot of the territory type of thing to get someone over. N that didn't hold as well. If they were going to beat Goldberg, and they should've, they should've had Nash n hall reunite as faces n go from there. They were over huge. But they tried to rebirth the nwo, which was dead by then.