10 WWE Legends Who Came Back And Ruined Everything
4. New World Order
The New World Order changed the landscape of wrestling forever.
The brainchild of Eric Bischoff after attending a New Japan Pro-Wrestling event, the black and white (and sometimes red) group took over World Championship Wrestling in 1996.
Turning Hulk Hogan heel and aligning him with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, who it was implied were invading from WWE, was a stroke of genius that made WCW the most popular wrestling brand on the planet.
That was then.
When they finally got to WWE, they were a shadow of the former group. The first thing they did was apologise and say they love wrestling. What? Had the WWE writers never seen these three in black and white?
The reason this come back ruined everything is simple: WWE wanted "Stone Cold" Steve Austin to face Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania X8, but Austin wasn't interested in it. That pushed The Rock into the biggest Icon Vs. Icon match in a generation, while "Stone Cold" was given a less than ready Scott Hall.
All of this was the catalyst for Steve "taking his ball and going home".
If the nWo had never returned to WWE, we might have seen a lot more of the Attitude Era's biggest star.