10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (Feb 16)

by Jamie Kennedy

1. Booker T Worried The nWo Would Kill Wrestling

nWo Nitro
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The nWo remains one of the best things WCW ever came up with. Dripping in cool, the renegade faction turned the company from a money-losing operation into something Eric Bischoff could crow to Ted Turner's executives about. It wasn't viewed as a WCW saviour by some in the locker room however.

Booker T said on the Sam Roberts Wrestling podcast that he was skeptical the New World Order would benefit WCW. In fact, Booker worried the nWo's popularity might kill wrestling. After all, they were supposed to be the heels and yet received louder cheers than most on the WCW side.

That didn't sit well with Booker, and there was another reason he didn't like the idea.

To Booker T, Bischoff's decision to have Hulk Hogan front the faction made it impossible for fans to dislike it. Overnight, Hulk turned into one of the most bad-ass characters in wrestling, and that (to Booker) undermined his new heel status at the time.

What other big wrestling facts did you learn this week? Let us know down in the comments section below!

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.