After an abysmal few months, WCW became so desperate for something anything good to happen that they actually rehired Eric Bischoff. What followed must have seemed like a good idea to someone, but that someone wasnt in the fast-dwindling audience of Monday Nitro. His first act upon his return was to decide to shake things up an excellent idea, given the dire straits the company found itself in, and what hed been brought back to do. Except Bischoff didnt have the patience to build the card back to where it should be the right way, through judicious booking and pushing the right people. No, his solution was to reset the promotion in one fell swoop, vacating all the titles and announcing tournaments for the belts to start things afresh. Sid Vicious lost his WCW Championship, Jeff Jarrett lost his United States Championship, Brian Knobbs lost the Hardcore belt and the Harris Brothers lost the tag titles. This was essentially to set up a feud between factions again as if various forms of the NWO taking over the show and feuding with everyone, before turning on itself, hadnt been enough. Now we had Russo and Bischoffs New Blood versus Hogans Millionaires Club, designed to get the younger wrestlers over. This angle lasted a month or so, when it became clear that having two hated authority figures in charge of the rookies and one of the most popular wrestlers in the world as the leader of the established wrestlers wasnt any way to get a babyface pop for the New Blood.
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