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The nWo was undoubtedly one of the biggest sensations of the wrestling world during the 90s, and it is still considered one of the best factions in the history of professional wrestling. It was founded back in early 1996 in WCW as Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan teamed up to form this faction.
Later, more members joined the faction to make it one of the largest factions in professional wrestling history. The nWo dominated the whole WCW and the wrestling world for a long time. It was also the biggest reason behind the ultimate success of WCW and its dominance in the wrestling world.
Eric Bischoff accused Vince McMahon of not utilizing The nWo in WWE
But ultimately, by early 2001, the promotion announced its bankruptcy, and its biggest competition, WWE, purchased it. A lot of wrestlers from WCW transitioned to WWE, nWo also joined WWE in 2002. But former WCW boss Eric Bischoff recently claimed Vince McMahon booked the nWo's WWE terribly. Speaking on his "83 Weeks" Podcast, he explained the following;
nWo made its WWE debut back in 2002
“No matter how smart you are, no matter how creative you are, no matter how much everybody thinks you’re a freaking genius, you’re still going to come up with some really stupid ideas. This was Vince’s stupid idea. Whether it was his idea originally and he just forced everybody to go along with it, or whether he took two or three ideas that he heard and he liked and tried to merge them and meld them together, as you said. And this is what they ended up with? Either way, it was stupid. It was really stupid.
nWo reunited multiple times in WWE
“And it’s one of — I mean, you notice my top five reasons, they were all kind of interconnected. I mean, it really was the setup of the story, and now we’re talking about the premise of the story. The premise of the story is ridiculous. Nobody bought into it. It didn’t fit Vince’s character. No matter how much he tried to twist and turn the character and, ‘He’s the evil, maniacal one!’
"All right, you can try to sell that, and some people will buy it. First five rows will buy it. After you get past the first five rows of ticket buyers, ain’t buying that s**t. So it was a bad idea that only got worse in execution. But yeah, right out of the chute, it just stunk the joint up.”
The nWo had been a huge failure in WWE, and there had been multiple reasons behind it. Vince McMahon never considered it a top deal in WWE. Soon after its rival, he split the group, showing his intention not to continue it for long. Kevin Nash's injury was also a big reason behind its failure in the WWE.
