NelioCuomo
You're right about one thing, Hogan did put WCW on the map from the time he debuted their through 1997. But I disagree that he had the right to refuse to put anybody else over when his time was clearly past . If you knew anything about WCW from 1998-2000, You'd know that they had one of the most talented rosters his professional wrestling history. Booker T, Curt Henning, The Giant, Chris Jericho, Raven, Chris Benoit, Shane Douglas, Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn, Rey Mysterio, Billy Kidman, Scott Steiner, Goldberg, Sting, Rick Steiner, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Diamond Dallas Page, and Buff Bagwell. Had Hogan went back to the WWF and all those guys stayed the main event in WCW would have been 10 times better in those years.
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aaronalmarez
12 years ago
WCW during it's early days when it was JCP/Mid-Atlantic NWA when the Crockett family(Jim,Sr. Jim,Jr. or "Jimmy" and David) had owned the company to even when Ted Turner first bought the company and it was changed to WCW in 1988 to 1995, was some classic wrestling. But WCW during the "Monday Night War" era, in my opinion, was complete GARBAGE no matter if they did better business than the WWF within 1996-1998. And the reasons why WCW was garbage during that time was because of the disorganization that plagued the company and Eric Bischoff's overspending/wasting of Ted Turner's money. Sure, Hulk Hogan helped the company become better than the WWF at that time but he basically controlled what could and couldn't be done and he became praised more than Ric Flair who had been in WCW since it was the Mid-Atlantic NWA(and sure, Flair also had some good runs in the WWF/WWE as well). And although it looked like Hogan was backing up Bischoff in trying to destroy the WWF, in actuality, he was still secretly loyal to Vince McMahon and the WWF. Both Bischoff and Ted Turner had used Hogan as the tool to destroy the WWF but failed because of Hogan's "secret loyalty" to the WWF. But when it came to Vince McMahon destroying WCW, the wrestler that he used as a tool to destroy WCW was "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. And since Vince fed on Austin's bitterness towards WCW after being fired from that company in 1994, he succeeded. One theory I have to who the person was who got Steve Austin fired from WCW was none other than Hulk Hogan. But if he did, he did Austin a favor for which he had a way better career in the WWF than he would've had if he stayed in WCW. And another theory I have is that I believe it was Eric Bischoff who is really responsible for the "Montreal Screwjob." If he hadn't gone after Bret Hart like he did just to complete the "wrestling show" that WCW was, I don't think Vince McMahon wouldn't have been forced to screw Bret Hart the way he did at the 1997 Survivor Series in Montreal, Canada. The way I see it, WCW was and will always be "second place" to the WWF/WWE even if they nearly put the WWF out of business in the late 1990's.
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