badgenome said:
The WCW vs. WWE thing? I didn't see much of it since I had retreated almost entirely to watching Japanese stuff by that point, but what I saw was really piss poor. It didn't help that most of WCW's biggest names didn't sign with the WWE, but then you had Vince stepping on his own angle by touting how much bigger stars the WWE guys were than the WCW guys like he still had something to prove. The moment that was most emblematic of the whole thing was Rock asking Booker T who the hell he was. |
Not only that, but the whole stupid angle pretty much devolved into a McMahon family feud with the different promotions being their playthings. But yeah, Rocky looking at Booker T like he was a nobody heralded the end of good mainstream wrestling for a while like the Fingerpoke of Doom heralded the end of WCW. I was excited about TNA in it's early years, but now I find myself watching it only because I need background noise when playing games are trying to go to sleep.
