10 WCW Storylines That Were Totally Abandoned
So who did drive the white hummer anyway?
Good old World Championship Wrestling. Younger readers won't have memories that stretch back quite far enough, but the company is largely maligned for great reason. It went from having the entire professional wrestling world at its feet, the company that fought back against Vince McMahon's business decision to buy up the best talent and managed to bring the WWF to its knees in the process.
It all went a bit sour from there however, and a combination of awful business decisions and terrible booking ones meant that WCW closed its doors for good in 2001, suffering the ignominy of being bought out by Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation. The main reason was financial, the company could no longer exist and a sustainable financial entity.
It had also embarrassed itself so many times with its booking that the company was as good as dead in the eyes of fans. We know of the ridiculous 'On a Pole' matches, ending Goldberg's streak thanks to a stun gun and even shaving Ric Flair bald, but what of those stories that went nowhere?
Here are 10 WCW storylines that were never truly resolved, that were either abandoned, forgotten or a strong mixture of the two. There may have been vodka involved.
10. The Nasties And The New World Order
A fairly well-documented story this, but in the early days
of the New World Order the faction found itself being courted by The Nasty Boys.
That doesn’t sound like the best states of affairs admittedly, but keep with
me. The nWo eventually relented and allowed the Nasties into the group, but
promptly beat them down before the black and white shirts were comfortable over
those rotund tums.
As such, Jerry Sags and Brian Knobs entered into a pretty hot program with then-WCW Tag Champions, Kevin Nash & Scott Hall. Everything went a bit wrong when, during the match between the two teams, Sags was hit a little too snuggly in the back of the head. Sags thought it was Hall, and promptly beat the ever-loving tar out of the Bad Guy.
WCW being WCW, you’d think they’d run with this and make it a white-hot story. Well, not quite, as Sags was promptly fired with Knobs keeping his job because Hulk Hogan. The incident was never mentioned in WCW again.