The fingerpoke of doom 15 years later

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genocidecutter
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPNq3hGWolM

15 years in 99 this infamous angle happened
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  • VIBE
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    When it was gonna happen a second time, well, it really a finger poke but when Jarrett laid down for Hogan and Hogan went off, was that legit?
  • dalyricalbandit
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    HHH or Cena will in the future book it
  • Chi-Town Bully
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    WCW straight suckered me into watching this episode. First the rematch between Goldberg and Nash and when that didn't happen then the match with Nash and Hogan. This was the beginning of the end of WCW
  • Sour-Cream
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    GOAT move, I've knocked plenty a ? the ? out with this.
  • Broddie
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    Nail in the coffin for WCW. Wolfpac Vs. Black & White saved the tired NWO angle for a while. It made it look like it was finally coming to a real conclusion. Then this happened and two years later McMahon is strutting around as the owner of WCW.
    VIBE wrote: »
    When it was gonna happen a second time, well, it really a finger poke but when Jarrett laid down for Hogan and Hogan went off, was that legit?

    http://www.cagesideseats.com/2012/7/9/3138196/on-this-date-in-wcw-history-hulk-hogan-vince-russo-and-worked-shooting-bash-at-the-beach-2000
  • jono
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    Ridiculous stuff.
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  • Turfaholic
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    They had to ? off the NWO some how. NWO was becoming bigger than WCW. And it was becoming stale.
  • jono
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    nWo could have been ended by Goldberg cuz he beat everybody that matters in the group already, I'm of the opinion that he nWo angle should have been ended when Sting beat Hogan at Starrcade though
  • Mally_G
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    "you tried to make me look like a ? , because you know that you are half the man that I am, and that I have half the brain that you do..."

    Scott Hall's reaction is priceless.
  • 1CK1S
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    The finger poke didn't end WCW, but it got things in motion which would lead to the inevitable fall.



    The official death of WCW

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3g37-9nu_g
  • Copper
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    ? was GOAT and didn't end wcw

    That ? reboot by Vince Russo did
  • Broddie
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    From the creative standpoint this was the beginning of the end. They never recovered. Then Russo came in right after this. The madmen were trying to run the asylum and it was pure chaos. Outside of Steiner everything on the show sucked from that point in 99 through to 2001 and it became redundant. It started to feel like Monday Night Has Beens.
  • Chi-Town Bully
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    edited January 2014
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  • RawAce
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    Even as a young kid I knew hogan and Nash had too much power.
    The main event of nitro was ass to me most the time but I faithfully watched every week because the Midcard was so great

    Even when they reboot and had gimmick matches everywhere like cruiser weight tag titles and terrible ? matches wit sandman , haku and that 70's guys,
    It was still better than the comedy WWF was puttin on TV
  • Peezy_Jenkins
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    part of what led to vince having no comp, therefore, part of what has somewhat ruined wrestling, at least on the major scale
  • Mally_G
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    RawAce wrote: »
    Even as a young kid I knew hogan and Nash had too much power.
    The main event of nitro was ass to me most the time but I faithfully watched every week because the Midcard was so great

    Even when they reboot and had gimmick matches everywhere like cruiser weight tag titles and terrible ? matches wit sandman , haku and that 70's guys,
    It was still better than the comedy WWF was puttin on TV

    true, i remember reading about how the main eventers were complaining that the lower cards were putting on better matches and that they didn't want to follow up such performances, so they basically used their pull and did squash matches on later shows at the expense of the lower cards to cool them down.

    that's when Eddie, Benoit, Malenko, and Saturn stepped up and made a stand against the ? . When Benoit won the belt from Sid, it was an attempt to make him stay since he agreed to jump to WWF, but it didn't work, and in storyline, the belt was stripped.

    Bischoff truly believed the ? Hogan, Nash, and others were telling him that he didn't need the undercard since they were the small guys and "didn't draw". They convinced him to give them all the money and shine because that's what people paid to see, but it actually was the downfall. When the wrestlers with the talent left, WCW sank. Jericho got fed up with that ? sometime before and been left. But when the Radicals bounced, it was the tell-tell sign WCW was done.
  • Recaptimus_Prime360
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    VIBE wrote: »
    When it was gonna happen a second time, well, it really a finger poke but when Jarrett laid down for Hogan and Hogan went off, was that legit?


    I think Hogan going off was legit.
  • jono
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    The Bash the Beach thing was the death knell.
  • bull6599
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    The Sting vs Hogan match at Starcade 97 was the beginning of the end IMO. They built that ? for 18 months only to to ? it up b/c Hogan didn't wanna drop the belt.

    W/ the Kane vs Undertaker story taking off at the end of 97, DX, & Stone Cold being pushed to main event status WWF was putting on a better product to me anyway, but WCW helped.
  • bull6599
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    And let's not forget WCW giving away the WWF Raw main event where ? Foley won his 1st WWF title & people tuning away from WCW to watch. That was December 98 if I'm not mistaken so that predated the "FOD".
  • Recaptimus_Prime360
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    Well WCW must've been hurtin for ratings. Bcuz they gave away that Goldberg vs Hogan match for free. I actually was shocked that wasn't PPV.
  • dalyricalbandit
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    WCW gave a F class actor David Arquette a run with their belt

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    WWF only gave Arnold a A class action hero a replica

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  • RawAce
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    That Davie arquette ? and the kiss performance are some of the only ? I wanna take back about wCw

    I can even live wit the Denis rodman matches but that ready to rumble ? was woat
  • bigev240
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    darkone360 wrote: »
    Well WCW must've been hurtin for ratings. Bcuz they gave away that Goldberg vs Hogan match for free. I actually was shocked that wasn't PPV.

    If WCW had that match on PPV, it could have been one their biggest grossing PPVs ever. But WCW was so worried about beating WWF on Monday nights they couldn't think that far ahead to do that match on PPV.