Wednesday, October 16, 2013

nWo: The Revolution



nWo: The Disappointment
"Look at all this crap in the ring. This is what's in the future for you if you want to hang around this man Hall and this man Nash."
- Mean Gene

"All this crap in the ring represents all the fans here tonight."
- Hulk Hogan

That was the point for me where Hogan's NWO formation speech becomes the greatest wrestling promo of all time. The incredible shock associated with the Heel turn of the biggest Good Guy in the sports' history would have made any promo Hogan cut at that point notorious. And Hulk's incredible candor in discussing why he was bitter with the WWF (referred to as "that organization up north") and bored with his station in WCW presented a level of reality in the promo that we had never seen from him before, certainly qualifying it as the stuff of legend. But that perfect little comment about the "Crap being the fans" was what elevated it to the highest greatness, because when had we ever heard Hulk say something so clever, so timely and...

Survey Says...One More For The Good Guys
It was the storyline/group that lead the change of wrestling to the point where "sports entertainment" was at it's most popular than it's been since the 1980's as what started as a hostile takeover became a revolution as you saw the infamous logo almost everywhere & the notes from the theme song are still memorable to this stay...all of this can be put into 3 letters, n.W.o. This is WWE's second (and better) presentation discussing the history & evolution of this group with new comments from people such as Booker T, Arn Anderson, Dusty & Cody Rhodes, Bill DeMott, Diamond Dallas Page, Kevin Nash, Billy Kidman, Sean Waltman, Vince Russo, Matt Striker, Ted Dibiase, Joe Hennig, Mike Rotundo, Big Show, Lex Luger along with archival comments from Vince McMahon, Eric Bischoff, Scott Hall, Jimmy Hart, and Hulk Hogan.

The documentary stars off talking about the signing of big stars from WWE to WCW such as Scott Hall & Kevin Nash going into the details of how everything went down &...

New World Order
DISC 1

Stars Align

Free Agents

The Outsiders

Bash at the Beach

Here's the nWo

Element of Reality

Fan Interest

nWo vs. WCW

Rivalry versus Sting

The nWo. Goes Mainstream

Internal Strife

Restoration Attempt

nWo 4 Life

Scott Hall's Nitro Debut
Nitro - 27th May, 1996

Kevin Nash's Nitro Debut
Nitro - 10th June, 1996

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper confronts Eric Bischoff
18th November, 1996

Hollywood Hulk Hogan confronts "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
30th December, 1996

The nWo's WWE Debut
No Way Out - 17th February, 2002

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DISC 2

The Outsiders vs. Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Sting & Lex Luger
Bash at the Beach - 7th July, 1996

WCW World Heavyweight Championship...

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