Reminder that wrestling has no stars.
Reminder that wrestling has no stars
Bentley Brown
Aiden Morris
save us hulkster
Adam Evans
I showed my girlfriend this match and she couldn't stop laughing
Carson Butler
>Handicap match
is this the one where Nash tears his quad?
Nolan Long
3/5 stars in that pic
Luis Fisher
Dude in the background looks like he rapes niggers.
Tyler Lopez
>giving a guaranteed money maker away on tv
Jaxon Campbell
Umm no you dumb zoomer. As you can see Hogan is with the nwo meaning before his face turn. Nash tears his quad when he was demoted to jobber status on raw.
Kevin Smith
Right, because we all know the flow of a storyline on RAW from 15 years ago.
Charles Cook
joke going clean over your head in a squash burial, simp
Brody Evans
You're a dense as Vince McMahon.
Elijah Collins
just to remind you:
this was the main event of raw just because WWE HAD TO beat WCW in the ratings every week
after the monday night wars there were never main events on raw like this again
Jonathan Cook
Wat
Caleb Stewart
This was after the Monday night wars
Julian Gomez
Rock, Austin, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan was the ME of Raw because
>WWE HAD TO beat WCW in the ratings every week
Robert Hall
>Austin was okay with giving this match away on tv but wouldnt wrestle brock on tv
Hudson Davis
Holy fucking autism
Samuel Gray
based fuck these clueless smarks
Michael Torres
This was the beginning of the end. He was SEETHING about working Hall in the midcard even though he was offered the Hogan match first and turned it down.
Owen Edwards
>there was a period in 2002 where the active roster consisted of Hogan, Austin, Rock, HHH, Y2J, Angle, Taker, RVD, Mr. Perfect, The Outsiders, Tic Flair and DDP
>storylines were still shit
>ratings still continued to plummet
Yeah, wow what a golden age that was.
Jack Mitchell
>Hogan, Austin, Rock, Angle, The Outsiders, Tic Flair and DDP
Based
>HHH, Y2J, Taker, RVD, Mr. Perfect
Cringe
Isaac Ortiz
2002 WWE was great dude. Bunch of great PPVs from that year
Eli Hughes
Not true, ratings started going down after that year's Mania when they did the brand split and all the stars left in a few months span
Gavin Nguyen
Nash was actually the replacement for STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN and was going to co-headline SummerSlam 2002 against Triple H.
The reason Kevin Nash tore his torn left quadricep muscle is because writer Brian Gewirtz pushed for Kevin Nash’s return to help boost ratings after Steve Austin "took his ball & went home" after refusing to do a job Brock Lesnar.
Nash, didn’t know he was scheduled to wrestle until arriving at that arena that Monday afternoon. Before the match, Nash complained about being put in the match, saying that he hadn’t wrestled in three months & now they were throwing him on TV on short notice and no warm-up matches on house shows. He wasn't even medically cleared to return from his ruptured bicep tendon.
Nash also didn’t even have his ring gear with him, so he had Disco Inferno go to his condo to get his ring gear sent out on the next flight but he didn't send Nash's knee brace. Nash ended up wrestling without his knee brace. Had Nash had several days warning, it doesn’t mean he would have necessarily done days of therapeutic stretches to get ready for his match, but it might have made a difference.
Gewirtz was said to be quiet backstage after the injury & there is heat on him for pushing Nash into the match on Monday without giving him any notice. Vince McMahon was said to look shaken and apologised to Nash saying he would make it up to him. Nash flew to Birmingham, Alabama the next day & met with Dr. James Andrews to schedule a surgery.
Nash was 42 years old when he suffered the injury & it was potentially career ending but he busted his ass for almost nine months to return to the ring from an injury which a 33 year-old man struggled to come back from - and he got no credit whatsoever, no hype, no return promos, no soppy U2 "Beautiful Day" music videos.
But like I always say, I'd rather tear at quad at 42 years old then have a heart attack at 38 years old...
Gavin Russell
*ahem* vocaroo.com
Michael Walker
big daddy bitch
Thomas Kelly
Yeah, I remember Disco telling that story on Russo's cast and how he found weird long black objects in his closet
Cooper Wright
Caleb Sullivan
*cough*
>Deadie Cuckuerrero
said Nash was "evil" *dies*
>Doink the Clown
talked shit about Nash *dies*
>Ultimate Warrior
talked shit about Nash *dies*
>Roddy Piper
lies about getting punked out by Nash *dies*
>Samoa Joe
slapped by Nash and *cries*
Henry Cooper
Didn't this completely fail to boost ratings? I recall the reunion being labeled a dud because all it did was increase buy rate for no way out while stagnating tv ratings and live show attendance
Aiden Campbell
You would if you had been there watching 15 years ago, zoomer scum.
Eli Brooks
Shitty talking point, nWo were together for two months and sold the most merch and DID boost ratings, ratings went down after Mania when they were split up
Ryan Evans
They boosted literally one episode of SD
Isaiah Evans
Why was The Hukster the most over during this time period? ...brother
Ayden Smith
See how the ratings fall as soon as they are split up - ohnonononono gerweck.net
Nicholas Evans
Blaming the usual post WM lull on your boyfriend oh no no no
See how they didn't move the needle when they signed ooh no no no
See how the nWo was over but not thr members oh no no no no you just fucked your own talking point
Joseph Sanders
>ohnonononono
You're using that meme wrong.
Leo Hall
>NWO only pulled in around 100k to Raw and 600k in ONE episode of SD
Kek, not a good look.
Jaxon Smith
There was only interest in Mania that year cuz of the nWo members, try harder sweetie
Adam Anderson
Yeah, but wrestling was dead by that point anyway
Brandon Sullivan
OH NO NO NO NO
Matthew Gray
>the nWo members
Literally just Hogan, if you want to pull that shit. Nash didn't even have a match and they played down the Hall/Austin match because they were sure he was going to no show, being a drunken loser n all.
Joshua Reed
He was seething because he was gonna lose. Hogan would put Rock over because Hollywood, he wouldn't put Austin over. Austin was right.
Hudson Miller
Hall/Austin was an over match though, compare the reaction to that to Hunter/Jericho's dead match
David Cruz
It was barely promoted in the lead up.
Jaxon Miller
Only one guy in this picture is a star.
Jayden Wright
All that tells me is the Outsiders couldn't draw in 2002.
Julian White
except for sell shirts and sell out arenas? Go to bed Phil
Jacob Clark
WolfChadTV just talked about this.
Business (attendance, merch, huge PPV buys) went up because of nWo. Ratings were stagnant but did go up slightly including drawing 5.0 ratings which was last time they would ever do them. After they killed off nWo and done the brand extension about 6 - 8 weeks later their business collapsed to shocking levels.I think they were doing low 3 ratings by end of the year.
Cooper Price
wrong pic!
Tyler Collins
Why are you posting screengrabs of my Twitter account on this shithole?
Jacob Rodriguez
not true
Hall vs. Austin was pushed HARD and was a featured angle on every Raw and SmackDown leading up to mania in order to sell the ppv
18+ if you think otherwise
Gavin Edwards
Hogan & Rock vs. Hall & Nash match, which drew the peak rating of a 5.8. It was the highest rated match on Raw since a 6.25 for Rock vs. Shane McMahon in Rock's first Raw match back on 8/6
Alexander Perry
so Nash and Hall drew biggest rating for WWE in 9 months? BASED
Thomas Gutierrez
Damn, that was legit an anime IRL match.
Where did it all go wrong?
Julian Nguyen
holy basedola
Tyler Perry
Why the fuck was Hall given Austin instead of Nash?
Owen Myers
Seriously? Other than SummerSlam, No Mercy and MAYBE Survivor Series, PPV's in 2002 were absolute shit.
Luke Long
>Austin was right.
Cringe. Anyone who isn't a mark would consider it an honor to put the Hulkster over. Austin is a fake tough guy and a total faggot.
Nathan Parker
They let manlets in the business.