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The buildup was awesome. One week you notice how Scott Hall(who had been very recently wrestling under the name of Razor Ramon in the WWE) is sitting ringside. Soon the shot heard around the world when not only Scott Hall, but Kevin Nash(who also wrestled in the WWE as Diesel) attacked the producer of Monday Night Nitro Eric Bishoff and the crowd went wild. Here you had two of the hottest superstars from the WWE seemingly invading WCW and the crowd was eating it up. It was the hottest thing on television at the time. Then to top it all off The wrestler whose name was synonymous with the sport shocked everyone and joined Hall and Nash. So with the combination Hall, Nash, and the immortal Hulk Hogan the NWO(New World Order) was formed and you had a formula for excitement, success, and brand supremacy. So why didn't any of this happen? The WWE should have been crushed but when the smoke cleared there was only one. The WWE.

One thing that the WWE learned from WCW was that you cannot have the inmates running the asylum. Week after week the NWO took up a lot of air time just talking and the action was far and few. Each member of the faction had something to say which wasn't so bad when you consider that their was originally only 3 members but it seemed as if the NWO grew every week. In fact in it's many incarnations there were an excess over 40 plus members. Now you could say that I am blaming everything on the NWO, in a way I am. The NWO is a prime example of the type of business that WCW conducted. Eric Bishoff was given an almost limitless budget which allowed him to outbid a Vince McMahon for a lot of his talent. That talent pretty much wrote the own schedules and became a monster out of control. They would show up on television and run on their star power from the past and do very little in ring performing. Meanwhile the other superstars on the role were under utilized, underpaid, and unhappy. Monday Nitro was a show that used to have a lot of wrestling, slowly turned into a show of posturing, spoiled children and unappreciated talent. Towards the end of the WCW the brand had more theatrics and less action. The fans grew tired of it. Even after they hired Vince Russo, a former writer at the WWE, the story lines just grew absurd. Considering how much WCW was overpaying its superstars(who barely wrestled) and how it paid so much money to be on the air(Monday Nitro was on for 3 hours and then repeated later that night) and the fact that the fans weren't getting

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