9 People Most Responsible For The Death Of WCW

4. Eric Bischoff

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Eric Bischoff did much to make World Championship Wrestling a viable alternative to Vince McMahon's WWF. Ascending the ladder of power like few before him, Bischoff was the head honcho in WCW by the mid-1990s. Answering only to Ted Turner, he could pretty much do what he wanted.

Such power came with some problems, Bischoff wasn't sure where to take things once he had overturned the WWF's grip on the market. His idea to introduce the nWo was a genius move, but one hampered by a lack of foresight when fans started to tire of the renegade angle.

Unable to move on from the New World Order, and (perhaps rightly) believing it to be more marketable than the WCW name, Bischoff didn't have a second act worth shouting about. Thus, he stuck with the nWo even after it had grown stale.

The New Blood vs. Millionaire's Club concept in 2000 was just more of the same. WCW didn't know how to move on from the inarguable brilliance of the original nWo, and that's something Bischoff himself admitted during a WWE documentary.

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