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[Bischoff] constantly trumpeted to anybody who would listen that Hogan and the nWo were the sole reason why WCW had pulled ahead of WWF in the ratings war. He never stopped to think that another reason may have been the hard work of the leprosy-afflicted cruiserweights.
Bolstered by the buzz created by the nWo, WCW beat WWF in the head-to-head cable television ratings for 83 weeks straight, something that would have been unheard of just a year earlier.
Sting was a mainstay of WCW when the rival company tangled with the WWF in a 1990s blood feud for ratings. Most of the biggest WCW stars didn't come to WWF when McMahon bought out his rivals in 2001. That's because the biggest stars were under contract with WCW's parent company, AOL/Time-Warner, and McMahon had no interest in paying their exorbitant salaries. Likewise, the wrestlers weren't inclined to quit and lose the remaining money on their contracts so they could join the WWF. Eventually, as their contracts ended, most of WCW's big names turned up for a run in WWE. By then, McMahon owned a functional monopoly on big-time professional wrestling, and performers like Kevin Nash and Ric Flair and Goldberg were happy to make nice with WWE and put their legacies in Vince's powerful hands.
WCW ended 1998 by ending the undefeated streak of Bill Goldberg. It was on this date that Goldberg was pinned by Kevin Nash in the main event of Starrcade at the MCI Center in Washington, ending Goldberg's streak and reign as company champion. The decision was heavily criticized, both the decision to end it and the tactic of having Goldberg hit with a cattle prod by Scott Hall to set up the jackknife powerbomb by Nash for the victory.
The point of the X-Division was to showcase the high flying, fast-paced style of wrestling which had become very popular due to WCW's cruiserweights in the 1990s which is why I immediately fell in love with the division.
The point of the X-Division was to showcase the high flying, fast-paced style of wrestling which had become very popular due to WCW's cruiserweights in the 1990s
