Brandon

It was somewhat inevitable and so many people called it when they first signed the guy. Hopefully in the future they will go after younger qbs who are healthy...

Hey I'm not saying everything Heyman and McMahon did was great as well... your retorts were well thought out and I will take back the Arquette comment.. still.... the guy literally only had the nWo and a tonne of other bad ideas. Yes he made money, yes the nWo was a very good money making angle..... but forget not how shitty WCW was before the nWo took off and how shitty it was the last several years of WCW. Outside of the nWo and maybe Goldberg... what the hell did Bischoff bring that was entertaining , fresh and well liked by the fans? What great memories aside from the nWo do you have of those years? I didn't even bother pointing out the TNA stuff since I stopped following TNA pretty much around that time and I thought it was well known that Bischoff simply mooched off of Hogan and went downhill fast with lame reality shows that bombed horribly?

Off the top of my head... The idea of loading cards with high flyers / great talent in lighter classes (Benoit, Malenko, Mysterio, Psychoasis, Jericho etc...) Stole all the newer edgier gimmicks (Raven + flock, Saturn , Public Enemy) or destroyed good gimmicks like the Sandman. Also misused talent with horrible gimmicks which then turned it around in ECW (Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Steve Austin!!! So many more) They over saturated the nWo because nobody cared anymore and they were desperate to get lightning in a bottle twice! Look at how many people were in the nWo : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_World_Order_members He made Kevin Nash a booker ... one of the worst workers and also worst back stage selfish guys in the biz. The nWo was a good idea no doubt about it and getting Turner to put money into bringing Hogan and Macho into WCW was a smart move... but once the nWo ran stale and while WWE was creating new superstars (or poaching ECW) ... WCW created only Goldberg and ran the company into the ground with a bunch of old guys and old gimmicks. When I think of back in the late 90's most of my wrestling memories are WWE and all the random over the top moments and unique angles .... for WCW I just remember nWo and all of the ppvs and storylines blurred together because it was all of the same. To finalize my rant... he made Arquette the champion and had Jay Leno fighting on ppv's!!! COME ON you can't defend that kind of crap!

No Bischoff copied and poached all of ECW .... with no ECW their would of been zero attitude era. Had Heyman been given a massive budget , ECW would of been insanely huge. What drove people to watch WCW was that each week they poached a new or former very popular wrestler from WWF and WWF history and it was all about who could they sign next. T U P should know that WCW were throwing insane money to all of the wrestlers up until the end. There is tonnes of shoot interviews with the guys saying it was fantastic and amazing on how much moolah was being thrown at them during that time period by WCW. They were throwing cash at insane things such as having KISS play to introduce the KISS demon wrestler (I believe I read that they paid nearly a million for KISS to play live on the show!). The *only* thing he did that was smart was bring over Nash and Hall. The rest was simply rinse and repeat and was only done because of his massive budget. The great wrestling matches with smaller guys ... stolen from ECW (including the talent) Goldberg.... rip off of Stone Cold and the only guy they didn't have the NWO bury.... Sting .... The Crow Lame personal attacks on Jim Ross.... He created no new stars / gimmicks.... When the NWO became old... he had nothing to offer. He created a million varations of the nWo and nobody cared. By the end I had no idea what the hell red nWo, latino nWo, wolf pac, nWo ... it was confusing. The PPV's were only good because of the Eddie Guerrero , Dean Malenko, Rey Mysterio and the other guys who knew how to work a great match. When it came to producing vignettes, story lines , using the heavy weight talent.... WCW was awful. Goldberg was awful on the mic, the Warrior coming back was hilariously bad, David Arquette was the f'ning champ, Jay Leno headlining PPVs, Rick Steiner talking to a chucky doll..... suuuuuuuch bad stuff. And since then he's done nothing in the business and pretty much is a Hogan groupie. Even pre nWo his ideas were lame ... he came up with Glacier, Shark (Earthquake), The Giant being Andre's son and having a monster truck sumo war with Hogan, Ed Leslie and his 10 gimmicks and all of Hogans other buddies coming in and putting on crap shows. Unfortunately for him Hogan is ancient and nobody cares about him anymore so at this point he won't go anywhere.

Bischoff was way over rated, its not hard to succeed when you have unlimited funds. He merely stole ideas from Japan and ecw and signed everyone. When WWF stepped up the game (I.e grew up) WCW was left in the dust. For two years in a row WCW ran the same Nitro, same PPV each time. The big pay off was either someone jumping ship to NWO resulting in the baby face being gang beaten and spray painted or a main event dq where the NWO gang attacked and spray painted the face. It was sooooo predictable and boring. They mixed it up by having NWO red and nwp black and white... They had sting In the rafters for a year... They had Mr perfect playing country music. Bischoff was way over rated and not even close to Heyman when it came to creativity.

Why is this thread still open, these are such weak far fetched rumours. At least a Ricky Ray to Winnipeg rumour has a chance of happening.

Are you open for local wrestling questions?

What is he going to say? MB sucks and that we have no hope?

Glenn is way better then Hamilton's back ups. And I wouldn't use BC as an example of good judgement.

Willy getting sacked a tonne , not much of a running game equals offense looking good?

It's not as bad as New Jack beating the crap out of that old gypsy joe wrestler.

Watching Austin lose will bring me smiles. Karma is a ***** when you are a jerk, maybe he shouldn't of angered the gods when he hit Stala.

Lock this thread its garbage

It only took Ottawa 1 full season to become a decent team...

It's one thing to be injury prone and another to suck. Statistically when healthy his numbers are great.

Well things have just became interesting... do they roll with who they have? Can we please trade them back Brian Brohm

Because Saskatchewan has too many good quarterbacks? Next year they will have a healthy Durant and I assume they like Smith.... why wouldn't they deal Glenn?

Kevin Glenn to Hamilton possibly if the injury is serious?

I thought it was the opposite... it was clear that Ladd wants to stay and it's unsure if Buff does or not

Not a chance

I would rather Tanner Marsh start.. He's awful and slow.

Based on BC trending downwards and showing absolutely nothing.

It's fun to pile on a receiver when we have nothing else to talk about. It's also fun to forget about a guybbeing hurt and a stretch of games where the qbs absolutely stunk.

Maurice provided a lot of info and definitely was honest on the radio and did a great job explaining the teams plan.

You play the best guy until you are officially out. Also they have a tonne of other guys to evaluate so its much easier to evaluate when the offense isn't going two and out every time.