10 Times WWE Ruined Something They Didn't Create
3. The NWO
Ok, so WCW's creative team didn't do a great job with the New World Order from 1998 onwards themselves, but at least the group had been created in that company. Besides, they were always the renegades who did whatever they wanted and answered to no-one. In WWE though, even the mighty nWo did the bidding of Vince McMahon.
Re-introduced (in their original form) in 2002, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hollywood Hogan were cast as a "cancer" brought in to destroy the WWF at McMahon's behest. Later, Hogan would turn babyface and the likes of Big Show, X-Pac, and Booker T became members. Even adding D-Generation X figurehead Shawn Michaels to the faction did little to stop the rot, despite the notable mix of two super-cool stables.
Abandoned by July, the once-proud nWo gimmick had been neutered under WWE's watch. Making things worse, McMahon had a genuine opportunity on his hands to reinvigorate the concept and make it worthwhile, but it was just another pawn in the never-ending quest to make everything WCW-related look second rate.