Even scientists till this day can’t solve what that hogan tweet meant

One thing I can say about Russo he was about putting over younger talent or guys that were around for years but never got a title shot like with Booker T or Scott Steiner but he was still toxic to the business tho

Don't like Russo, but he was right here. It was time to build a new generation. Hogan could not be the center of attention all the damn time.

Whenever I hear Russo's voice, I can feel my blood pressure rise...

Oh this is good to be juicy I love hearing old stories on WCW

I doubt that Jeff Jarrett could say whether it was a shoot or not to this day.

Hogan was the best face and heel in wrestling history.

i remember the "finger poke of doom" doomed wcw. it sank them further

I don't get it bro. That storyline was genius bro. That should have gotten over bro.

The hardest thing to accept about Hogan is he is only this polarising because he refused to put over other wrestlers in a way that makes today's standards seem tame

A little known non-televised match had Hogan wrestle himself. Hogan DQ'd himself so he wouldn't lose clean.

vince is still asking himself " who is hulk hogan"

Who cares who's right and who's wrong? Neither men were right in the head.

Hogan is a mark for himself brother.

I thought they settled out of court. No? Anyone have a link to the lawsuit?

I believe Vince Russo because hogan has a big ego and doesn’t like to loose to a lot of people even macho man and Bret hart said the same thing even stone cold said that hogan wouldn’t wrestle stone cold because hogan would lose and hogan said no and turn the match down

When are we getting Nxt reviews

So Russo's genius plan was to pour time, energy, effort, & resources into fooling WCW fans who read Meltzer's Newsletter into thinking that what they were seeing was a shoot. That's was like 1% of the WCW audience. This is why you never Book for the Dirt Sheets. The ppl who are into that are Die Hard wrestling fans, but they are few in number. They aren't the general audience that fills the house, buys the merch, & provides the ratings that provide advertiser dollars. Biggest thing in Wrestling ever was Hulkomania. Most Hulkomaniacs were under the age of 13. That is simplest example I can provide of how the Dirt Sheets don't matter to who is really paying the bills.

Guys, here's the bottom line. Brad Segal was Vince Russo's boss. Russo had told Hogan at Bash at the Beach he would call him. Brad Segal told Russo not to call Hogan, an instruction that Russo obeyed, although now he feels like he should have called him. Presumably, Segal's instructions were given because Hogan's contract got him so much money per appearance, and WCW was going further and further into the red. Hogan waited by the phone and no call came in. He felt that he had been conned and sued WCW. Had Segal allowed Russo to call and use Hogan we surely would have seen the champion vs champion match. So for everyone putting the heat for this one on Russo, take it to Segal. That's where the buck stops.

Scott Hall and Kevin Nash , the Outsiders, are the founders of the nWo.

A lot of people think that Vince McMahon sent Vince Russo to WCW to undermine wcw

JIM CORNETTE

CM Punk rumored to be suing AEW sounds awfully similar lol.

I think you're all forgetting the $1,000,000 Dollar question in this entire scenario, which is... How many works can a work work work if a worked work can't work works?

THE BEST CRAP JOBBER GIMMICK (and maybe something more) He gives everybody one superpower. Oli's crappy superpower of calling the finish of the match right before it happens. He calls himself Scape The G.O.A.T. (it's a pun, how fun) His finisher is a submission hold called 'escape the goat'. As he's applying the hold, he repeatedly yells 'escape the goat' and everybody does. He's always baffled when they do, because he thinks he's the G.O.A.T. as his name would suggest, while actually, just being a goat, a scapegoat to be precise and not realizing it, always loosing by getting hit with his opponent's finisher while just standing there, being the only person surprised his opponent got out of his hold as even the commentators say something crappy along the lines of 'this is what he always uses right before he looses' or 'why yell at the guy to get out of your submission'. Not even his opponents get over by beating him because they just beat the biggest jobber in the most predictable way and that's important so no one gets over and everybody on the roster stays crappy. I'll leave you guys to choose the actual submission he uses right before he looses. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE I've also booked an optional crappy storyline After Scape The G.O.A.T.'s latest of many losses, after his opponent has left ringside, country music starts playing (something even crappier than his entrance theme) and a man dressed as a farmer comes out and is introduced as The Goat tamer and says he'll manage (or tame, if you will) Scape The G.O.A.T. to his first title. He pulls out a leash and puts it around Scape's neck, symbolizing he's tamed him. Tamer only takes off his leash when Scape has his matches. Everything he does in the ring is the same because The Goat tames is a crappy one, except one thing. Right after the failed submission, as Scape The G.O.A.T.'s opponent is about to hit his finisher, The Goat tamer provides a distraction. Now, it can go two different ways from here and again, I'll leave it to you guys to decide since you're the McMahons of the CGR. One is, Tamer's distractions are always unsuccessful and he continues being a jobber. The other is, he starts winning all his matches via distraction roll ups (and calls them goat ups, another fun pun) and goes on to win the belt and become the even less credible champion than a certain champion on Smackdown as the promotion tries to expand to the farmers market (I've got puns for days). The most important thing here is, as I said, his match finishes are always done in the same crappy way so nobody gets over. By: your biggest (and probably the only) fan from Serbia

So basically cus Hogan didn't want to lose he and Russo made things worse for wcw

Is it just me or did Luke call "Russo" "rusev" a few times on this?

Can any of you predict who's hosting the video when you hear "Support WrestleTalk".

Hulk Hogan is probably the only popular guy who I never liked ,even when he was in his prime .

glad you talked about this.. i don't think this incident was or is talked about enough compared to the Montreal Screw Job, cause this screw job is almost close to the Montreal screw job.

Real Reason Sunday will be the One Time a Year Where Smackdown Superstars Vs Raw Superstars...

Can do something involving undertaker's championship wins

Real reason wwe released Chavo Guerrero in 2011

Hello and welcome to WrestleTalk News. I am Luke Owen

Please start doing NXT take over reviews too

Hogan was scheduled to lose the match but he didn't wanna lose to JJ. So they changed the plans to him winning but leaving with the belt for a couple months (because Hogan had creative control of his character so if he didn't wanna lose he could just not go out there). So Russo pretty much gave Hogan his wish but he took away any merit in the victory by having JJ just lay down. Which is why Hogan was so pissed and said what he said about the company

I left WCW alone after that fingerpoke

Hogan should’ve won money from WCW for breach of contract if they really fired him because they couldn’t afford him. The suing of Russo I couldn’t see that winning

so it was a worked shot shoot/work which shot to a shoot because it didn't work?

Hulk Hogan should have been sued by WCW for fucking up WCW

Hogan was a huge problem for WCW in the late 90s he hogged the top spot and spotlight far to much no new stars could be built with him ontop then his salary was a huge drain on WCW at the time ratings were falling and if he isnt drawing the numbers you expect from him and making WCW a massive percentage income as in investment for what your paying him I would of released him if i was in charge he was way past his best around 1999 anyway .

And he ended TNA too

WCW was a sinking ship the moment they kept Hulk for longer than four years.

kevin owens and sami is a work too and i dont care what anyone says

I was watching NXT War Games. How about a review?🤷

Luke why dont u review takeover it was awesome

All these trolls out there .. the reality is Hogan was the biggest name he drew more asses in seats than any wrestler in his hey day say what you want but many many wrestlers macho Man ,Rick flair , Kevin Nash , Roddy Piper , etc have all said the same thing . Vince Russo was the biggest idiot and put the final nails in the coffin .. I seriously feel like he came there to sabotage wcw.

The irony of watching this in 2023 AFTER watching the Dark Side of the Ring episode about the Bash.

Wait who is this video about?

Your content is great thanks for the news

Hit like if you think nxt wargames was greatest takeover ever.

Let’s look at the full spectrum Ted Turner no longer owned WCW AOL owned WCW AOL had lots of money Hogan got AOL money Also he told the “truth” to on his friends podcast The same friend that let him f**k his wife Hogan is notorious for twisting his story He’s an ego maniac that doesn’t want to look weak This is why he never put Jake the snake over Bret hart over Mr perfect over And stunning Steve Austin (Stone cold thought that old hogan was on his level and wouldn’t put him over #burn) Vince russo was only great in (then) wwf because Vince McMahon had the final say Let’s be honest here hogan was (is) a dick And wanted it his way Vince Russo was (is) a dick and wanted it his way

Logic goes out the window when it comes to russo

Thank you Luke on shining the light on that one.

The biggest mark for Hogan is the man himself.

7:00 👍🏼

Also please guys, you gotta start doing NXT reviews as well...at least Takeover shows. Yes, I know you talk about them on the podcast, but still. If main roster PPVs get individual reviews, why not NXT ones as well?

So is a power play in WCW ad that time. I see.

in 2000 you could buy replica wcw world heavyweight belts at the souvenir stand lol answers the 2 belt question

You guys have to start reviewing NXT and their PPVS

Ur channels so good use should have 100000 subscribers

The reason they're was 2 titles is because by then they carried extra ones in case the boys lost them st airport etc

Dave Meltzer cannot bury TakeOver Wargames

Why the hell would Steiner come out to help Hogan? He was a heel, Hogan's supposed to be the babyface. Was this supposed to turn Hogan heel? It's very difficult to side with Hogan on this one.

Everyone knows how hulk hogan is when it comes to losing

It was a work shoot that went wrong

Why must you have bad, repetitive background music through the whole video?

LUUUUUKE! WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT TAKEOVER: WARGAMES! Sorry for sounding so obnoxious. I'm just very excited is all, since it was just so astounding!

Good video 👍

3:57 so that s where whatculture got idea regarding their ppv from 🤔

It would actually be interesting if Hogan returned now

Hogan had the most fan base ever but after joining nwo. He became hell so its a little reason he's fane base were decreasing. And now he still popular but not more tgan he had before 1994

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Two championship belts at the show? Why was Booker T given the belt that Hogan bent the top of when he left angry?

I love Hogan but he has more stories then the bible. The way he tells the story is he won the lawsuit.

IN THE MISSION FOR HALF A MILLION ... subscribers.

I like Luke history lesson #Onthewayto500K

Well that was..............confusing.

I really wanted to hear this story but I won't finish cause it's not Oli Davis speaking on it, that man's voice is like vocal ice cream for the ears

Could you imagine being a judge and getting this case? 😄

Something a lot of people don't know is that reuso Was not actually head of creative he was part of the writing keep bischofswerder actually head of creative at that time and his whole kinyuchar in WCW was a significant problem because he came up with lousy concepts stupid batches without story lines and by the time Eric Bishop had laughed the company was basically rotted to the ground Bash at the beach was a culmination of tattered are losing the company Eric dish of leaving because he was dug with it wrestlers leaving the company because they didn't like what was going on anymore Hogan included

Say what u want about "The Boss" Vince McMahon but one thing nobody will ever get confused is that even tho he has a creative/writing team, the buck stops with him! In this WCW situation they had talent (Hogan,Hall,Nash) that had creative control negotiationed in their contracts. NEVER A GOOD IDEA! Then add on to the fact that u basically have 2 ppl (Russo/Bischoff) that don't like each other "trying" to work with together smh. So in actuality Hogan was ironically rite...that's the reason why WCW was in the situation it was in. Too many chiefs, not enough indians. Something Vince will NEVER have to worry about!

Nice vid luke! X

Plz don't say he formed nwo That was Nash n hall

Not what bischoff said

Oli grew a beard...lol

Love the breezango shirt Luke

When the “bookers” start to put themselves into the spotlight, it goes down. Bischoff, McMahon, Russo, HHH, etc. And maybe its simply the people or their bad storylines. Because before the mass assault on the territories, Watts and others were in subtle storylines but as babyfaces. Hmmmmm or this is the worst generation in historyZ

I like your shirt. So does Jeff G

What would be the point of 2 belts if Hogan wasn't going over and taking the belt for a Champ vs Champ. If Jeff had won the belt would have not stayed with Hollywood. More Works.

Why and the hell are we talking about this? NXT War Games was awesome last night. Where is the review? Just even a quick review on how awesome it was, and say more to come, or something.

Hogan will sue anybody talking negative of him in public.

Hulk hogan is lying. In court he said jeff lying down was the way they agreed to do it. On ric flair's podcast he said something else

I WAS A BIG HULKAMANIAC BUT AFTER SEEING WHAT JUNK HOGAN WAS REALLY ABOUT, I DESPISED HIM.

The lawsuit went nowhere

The match we wanna see is cornette vs russo

Original mitb concept with cena n punk confirmed

good vid

Company stunk at that point after 1999 there was no way back

they knew damn well signing Vince Russo was a bad idea why you think SPIKE doesn't want TNA no more Dixie was told not to hire Russo and she did it and it failed