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Memento posted:Literally, literally the best things to come out of the WWE-NWO angle were the photoshopped gifs of the Charles Robinson slide ring entrance, over a decade later. Even though there's 6-7 PPVs before any of this is relevant commentary, spoilers anyway: The WWENWO, much like the Invasion, could have been something special. People were pumped for their debut, the Rock/Hogan angle leading to Hogan's redemption was godlike, and Scott Hall vs Austin was far from terrible even if it was basically filler to get both guys on the Mania card since they wouldn't really get started on that feud until afterward. It was when they fell back on the same old tired NWO bullshit of a bloated, expanding roster and a corrupt authority figure in their pocket that poo poo sucked. Then Hall got fired because of the plane ride, and Nash got hurt on top of that. You know what was a stroke of genius though? HBK joining the NWO. People STILL refer to that as one of the most shocking segments/turns/reveals ever, it made so much sense, it had that Monday Night War ship-jumping feel, it was perfect in every way, especially since Shawn was back in the ring shortly afterward which would have been huge. If the new NWO had just been Shawn, Hall, Nash (assuming no injuries or personal meltdowns) and maybe one other guy (probably Xpac for a number of reasons) it could have been great. They'd built up this mutual respect but I still hate your guts rivalry between Triple H and Stone Cold starting at the Royal Rumble, it should have been those two against HBK's NWO with them trying to win over Triple H while destroying Austin and thus fostering mistrust at every step between the faces. That would have been one hell of a good story. Instead we got terrible bullshit that petered away into nothing, to the point where it was so blatant Vince had to comment on how it petered away into nothing in the RUTHLESS AGGRESSION promo.
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