15 Times WCW Was Better Than Literally EVERYTHING
9. Wolfpac In The House
The nWo instantly swept wrestling's faithful up in counter-culture cool when the group formed in 1996. More on that later, but first...a splinter cell that kept the vibes going. On the 4 May 1998 Nitro, Kevin Nash, Randy Savage and Konnan formed an offshoot wing of the core nWo. They'd be clad in red and black, and they'd be known as the Wolfpac.
The trio might as well have been the hottest hip hop act on the planet at the time. Weirdly, they wouldn't actually debut the Wolfpac entrance theme that's surely playing on repeat in your head right now until later in the month (a late-May episode of Thunder got that distinction), but the nWo Wolfpac was cool as all hell straight away. It also must be said that Konnan was responsible for a lot of this.
That's something Nash has acknowledged when discussing the spin off before. He knew that K-Dogg had a certain street cred none of the other members did; certainly not with a younger or more casual audience tuning in. 'Big Sexy', Randy and eventual members like Lex Luger, Sting and Curt Hennig could all leech off of that and use it to their advantage on TV.
Eric Bischoff and WCW knew exactly what they were doing here. The nWo was already a license to print money on merch sales (despite a logo retcon you probably don't remember), so they'd be doubling up on that by introducing fresh colour schemes. Ultimately, the Wolfpac diluted the nWo's appeal, but it was hotter than the sun when it first burst onto the scene in May '98.
We bowdy bowdy, we rowdy rowdy! Konnan was actually saying, "We bout it bout it", but still.