10 Biggest Missed Opportunities In WWE History
5. The New World Order Rehash
As easy as it is to deride the New World Order’s later years, the stable had a game-changing impact on their inception, and played a huge role in swinging the Monday Night Wars in WCW’s favour in the mid-90’s.
Unfortunately, he nWo’s 2002 WWE reboot was a complete shambles. Having bought the rights to all WCW intellectual property the year before, Vince McMahon announced that he was bringing back the nWo to “kill his creation”.
Enter Scott Hall, Hulk Hogan, and a visibly out-of-shape Kevin Nash. All three were several years removed from their prime, but fans had been clamouring to see these guys go against the likes of Steve Austin and The Rock for years.
While Hogan and The Rock delivered an all-time classic match at WrestleMania 18, the nWo revival brought few other highlights. Hogan turned face the next evening, leaving the nWo in the process. X-Pac, The Big Show, Booker T, and Shawn Michaels were added, but the nWo could never recapture their WCW magic, and the story vanished without explanation by July 2002.