WCW's 10 Biggest Mistakes

8. The nWo Adding Way Too Many Members

nwo_group_article_2 In its existence, the nWo has had a grand total of 55 members and "affiliates" through the years, and that number jumps to 58 if you count TNA's attempt to re-create the group as "The Band" back in 2010. The nWo was only around for approximately four years of actual in-ring time. That's a staggering amount of people to be in one stable throughout history, and at times, it looked like the group had that many people at the same time. The nWo was a great idea. A fantastic idea. You can't deny that, no matter how hard you try. However, with WCW, whenever they would find a really good idea, they would run it into the ground until it was no longer a really good idea. They would force feed the audience to the point where the audience would no longer desire what they were originally craving, like if you ate nothing but your favorite food several times a day, every single day, for weeks. At some point, you'd become sick of that food, even though it was once your favorite, and you wouldn't want to eat it anymore. It didn't help that the WCW roster picked up a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" mentality. They saw just how much television time the nWo was getting, and realized the only way they were going to get steady time is to go to management and pitch the idea of them joining the group. For a while, it seemed like we were getting people joining the nWo on a weekly basis, and it would almost always be the most random people on the roster. The whole thing just got old and boring.
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