10 Exact Moments WCW fans gave up watching!

I naively kept loyal to WCW until the bitter end. Kept telling myself “Next week things might get better!” 😞

Number one : not giving la parka the world titles

Jeff Jarret has always been a channel changer.

WCW had a huge and loyal fanbase in the south. Once it ended those die hards quit watching wrestling all together and wrestling may never be that popular again.

What you said about some WCW fans not transitioning over to the Fed really hit home. One of my dad's ex co-workers was a massive diehard WCW fan as a teen and he talked about being unable to tune into Raw even after WCW ended. It really speaks volumes to how much people cared about the company and why we all still pine for a wrestling boom period again

Jarrett has go-away heat with me as a TV character, but being objective, the highest he shouldve ever gotten is being the guy you beat to prove that you're ready for the main event. Like Razor Ramon.

The Fingerpoke of Doom was the thing that drove me to WWF. I was a huge WCW fan, loved Goldberg, loved the Wolfpac. Sting joining the Wolfpac was a childhood highlight of mine. So for Nash to just up and drop the belt to Hogan, it basically said all the plot from the pst year, cheering the Wolfpac, meant nothing. It made me realize WCW didn’t know how to put weight behind their stories, because they might just swerve the next week. Why cheer for someone who might just turn next week for no damn reason? 2000/2001 WCW was built on the swerve and shock value. But when you build nothing around that, give no reason to care when someone like Buff Bagwell turns face or heel, why even watch?

David Arquette was in a wrestling themed movie "ready to rumble" at the time, it starred lots of wcw guys jobbing to actors, so they likely had him on Nitro to promote the movie.

AEW's probably too new/honeymoon still to have a list. RoH likely has its fair share. ECW almost definitely does because the super-loyal fans were equally likely to tune out if something got their displeasure up

I'll try to describe what I remember about the Mick Foley and Fingerpoke of Doom night. I always liked WCW over WWE. I liked the WCW style: crazy car crash Luchador matches, great midcard matches even if the storylines surrounding those matches sometimes weren't all that great, and the high drama of the nWo looking to destroy WCW from the ground up. But then it started to feel like more of the same. It started to feel like everyone was just spinning their wheels without going anywhere. There were some bright moments here and there of course, but I just kept feeling like WCW was getting stale. Meanwhile, Mick Foley was something different. Something special. Mick Foley was OUR guy. Mick Foley was the guy that made homemade movies jumping off of his roof, traveled to Japan and ECW to establish himself as a hardcore legend, and became a star in WWF despite being the absolute polar opposite of what people usually consider a WWF star. Mick was chubby, and goofy, and weird, and awkward, and he didn't speak in catchphrases. But he was OUR guy. I remember being so excited when WCW spoiled that he was going to win the big one. My jaw hit the floor. The first thing I did was change the channel. I stayed glued to WWF for the rest of the night. I was sure I was going to have to wait until the main event but I watched the whole thing because I didn't want to chance missing even a single second of Mick Foley winning the WWF Championship. When it finally happened, it felt right. It felt deserved. It made me believe that the WWF was leading the way in terms of innovative storylines that were chiefly based around the WWF actually listening to their fans. It was one of the best moments I had ever experienced as a professional wrestling fan. And the next day I read about the nWo reforming and the WCW Championship being lost via a poke to the chest. And like so many others, I was done. I was just done. I switched to the WWF and never looked back. From then on, any time I checked into WCW, I was never presented anything that made me want to switch back. Towards the end, I started watching a little bit again, but this was only out of morbid curiosity, because I had read about how atrocious the show had become and I wanted to see for myself. And that's my story. For everyone that stuck around to the end, I just wanted to say thank you.

I’m surprised Goldberg “going off script” wasn’t here, it’s one of those things that simultaneously killed Goldberg as a face by making look like an entitled piss baby instead of the badass he was supposed to be in story and as a worked shoot broke any immersion even more than things like Bash at the Beach, you could at least believe the wrestling was real outside of the booking being in story faked. It’s the peak of late WCW “what in the hell were they thinking”.

AEW hasn't been around long enough to do this, and ECW's ending was less about no fan support rather than the company just couldn't turn a profit. It wasn't that fans tuned out, its that wrestling economics meant the promotion couldn't function scaled up. ROH would be extremely interesting. There are four major events I can think of off the top of my head (the Rob Feinstein scandal that got all the TNA talent like AJ Styles pulled, The Elite leaving ROH, Jim Cornette's run as booker, and the show where they sold out MSG teaming with New Japan and put on just an abysmal show), and I'm not even a regular ROH viewer.

The relationship on WCW and other promotions (AAA and new Japan) they could’ve grown more, but WCW screw it up by not letting other foreigners win the big gold.

The moment Hogan pinned Sting 1,2,3 in the middle of the ring. Starrcade 1997.

I'm a little surprised that the clusterf**k that was the main event at StarrCade '97 wasn't mentioned. Sting vs. Hogan had been built up for a year and a half! Then the match ended in a fast count. Except it wasn't a fast count. Then Bret Hart in his first WCW PPV appearance talked about there being a fast count and restart the match. There was no fast count but they restarted the match anyhow and Sting won. The biggest angle WCW had and what should have propelled Sting to cement his legacy and it all went "POOF!" because of a botched fast count that wasn't.

What makes the Fingerpoke Of Doom worse is the fact it takes place on the Nitro the week after Kevin Nash beat Goldberg.

I actually really like Jeff Jarrett. He was a very solid and dependable worker, but no, he wasn't a main eventer. He was the guy who works with The Guy to prepare him to be The Guy.

Every time Jarrett came out on any TV screen people weren't interested. You're not hating You're just stating facts

Regaring the end of the streak, I believe the problem was rather how and what followed than Nash being the one. He was extremely over at the time and was a good cnadidate for the title, but the screwing and the finger poke of doom afterwards killed it

I always rooted for the weird semi job guys like Mr. Hughes or Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce on WCW worldwide