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December 20, 1999 - New World Order 2000
Under the creative direction of former WWF head booker Vince Russo, the nWo is rebooted on Nitro when the key champions - Bret Hart (World), Jeff Jarrett (United States) and Kevin Nash and Scott Hall (World Tag Team) band together to take over, again. The nWo rehash happens because WCW is torpedoing in popularity. Every business metric is plummeting. Rapidly.
The product is an incomprehensible mess, a weirdly meta broken TV show about a broken TV show.
The difference this time around is that the group wears black and silver colours, and goes by the guaranteed suffix failure of nWo 2000. Was it really going to be any good?
Message board pipe dreamers and Russo apologists mourn the potential of a group that is doomed instantly. ‘Instantly’ is not even the correct word; the group is untenable before its formation.
Hall gets injured in December, and can’t be in nWo 2000 before the year 2000 actually happens.
Unbeknownst to Hart himself, he gets concussed at Starrcade before nWo 2000 even forms, and must retire shortly thereafter.
In December, key protagonist Goldberg severs an artery and is out for months when WCW fails to gimmick the limousine window he smashes with his forearm.
The group, again, quickly and quietly fades away.
It’s somewhat safe to say that, as a Russo project - a Russo project in WCW, for that matter - nWo 2000 probably doesn’t succeed nor last regardless.