World Championship Wrestling (WCW)

[7.0] "WCW is a fascinating case in wrestling history, a promotion that experienced both brilliance and baffling decline. In my view, its golden era ran from 1988 to 1994, when the company consistently delivered compelling wrestling across all levels of the card. The midcard during this period was exceptional, featuring talents like Barry Windham, Big Van Vader, Dustin Rhodes, Brian Pillman, Steve Austin, Z-Man, Arn Anderson, Ric Flair, and the Steiners. These performers made WCW must-watch television, particularly for fans who appreciated solid in-ring work and storytelling. Unfortunately, the promotion's trajectory after 1994 marks a dramatic fall. While the nWo era of 1996 had its moments, I personally found it uninspiring. The faction often felt like a collection of older stars clinging to relevance, and the overhyped storylines sometimes undermined the product as a whole. Main event focus was inconsistent at best, dominated by washed-up veterans like Hulk Hogan, which diluted the company's credibility. The 2000s only compounded these issues, further diminishing WCW's stature in the eyes of fans. Despite these flaws, the cruiserweight division remains a highlight that withstands the test of time. With performers such as Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio, Dean Malenko, and Chris Jericho, the midcard scene delivered some of the most exciting, technically precise matches in wrestling history. For those interested in high-quality wrestling and innovative pacing, this segment alone justifies revisiting WCW's product. Ultimately, WCW was a company of extremes: brilliant in its early years, frustratingly egotistical and poorly managed in its later years. Its legacy is a mixture of must-watch classic matches and cautionary tales about overreliance on star power."

[6.0] ""Although this promotion ended before my birth I found it's events and matches awesome.Thanks to WCW YouTube channel.""

"Eric and Russo were dickheads. Everything was so ridiculous. Only a few really good matches. I think people are blinded by nostalgia because this score is too high."

[10.0] "My favourite wrestling company ever! I really loved the fact I got to grow up watching the Monday Night Wars, and WCW was my jam baby. Absolutely brilliant. Sure they made a lot of mistakes, but that's okay, every company has! WCW 4 LIFE BRAH!"

[5.0] "World Championship Wrestling held significant value to the professional wrestling landscape. Where would wrestling be without WCW, If it didn't exist. Coming off of Jim Crockett Promotions and eventually splitting off from the NWA Territory system. WCW managed to create it's own identity and long list of exclusive stars and moments. It had it's up and it's huge downs especially near the end of WCW's lifeline that is TOO hard to ignore. The decline was so awful that WCW lost it's fanbase, it's identity, it's biggest stars and the loyalty that it once had. It was marred with political issues backstage and constant creative hells and financial issues to the point where WCW spent around $300 Million dollars in one year. Prime WCW years would be 1996-1998 where the New World Order was running rampid, Nitro was the #1 Wrestling show on the market, WCW was on fire and as quickly as it was ablaze, It went out with a gust of wind. Overall, WCW was a company not many who work in the business look fondly upon and it's looked upon in such a negative light and despite it's bright spots and innovations. WCW died a death well deserved. [**1/2]"

[8.0] "WCW had its ups and downs, but you can't deny the impact it had on wrestling history. From the NWO to Sting in the rafters, it helped define an entire era. The Monday Night Wars brought out the best in everyone, and for a while, WCW was on fire. Yeah, the later years were a mess with backstage politics and weird booking, but the legacy of those peak years still holds up. Easily one of the most important promotions of all time."

[10.0] "I love this promotion so much, although alot of it was really stupid, I even love 1999-2001 because it keeps me interested more because it doesn't have 5 20 minute promos in a row.. they had a lot of bumpy rocks down the road, such a shame they shut down.."

[10.0] "It may be difficult to understand because it uses a translation function. The best wrestling organization in the history of wrestling. It produced some of the greatest stars in history, such as nWo, Goldberg, DDP, and Crowsting. There are also countless famous matches and promos. The many wanderings that are incomprehensible to ordinary people in the final days still make for great stories. The King of Rord, the Human Torch, the Triple Cage, Vince Russo's connected eyebrows... Other than WWE, there is no other organization that is worth talking about so much, both in terms of good and bad. I loved WCW Worldwide, which was broadcast on local stations (New Japan's ring announcer Tanaka's sharp-tongued commentary became a hot topic among some)."

[9.0] "WCW is probably everyone's most missed company. So much is lost by it's demise. They had so much history and once the Monday Night Wars happened wrestling was at it's most fertile. So many new ideas and so much innovation happened. WCW perfectly blended workrate and storylines. From 1999 a lot fell off and there were positives in fixing it in 2000 but it was too late. WCW had so much left to give and the business is never the same without it."

[8.0] "Rating WCW is a double-edged sword. The heyday of World Championship Wrestling was phenomenal. But overtime, I think they became complacent with themselves and just started getting lazy for lack of a better term. The last three years of WCW from 1999-2001 was what I call the "Forgotten Error" E-R-R-O-R. This promotion had positives and negatives. Positives: The formation of the New World Order, More Reality Based Storylines, Incredible Talents, such as mid-carders and cruiserweights. Negatives: Too much pushing of "older talents" and poorly booked wrestlers from different organizations (i.e. Bret Hart, Roddy Piper, Curt Hennig, etc.) under pushed and underutilized midcarders, such as Benoit, Guerrero, Malenko, Saturn, Jericho, Shane Douglas, among others. Also, too many agendas and backstage politics. But, I choose to remember WCW for the best, not the worst."

[10.0] "What's crazy about my rating is that I wasn't around for the Monday Night Wars and yet when I watch WCW during that era and the 1980s to early 90s I found myself in love with it. World Championship Wrestling was the company that elevated pro wrestling to a new era as they did the unthinkable by turning Hulk Hogan heel and forming the nWo! Heck they almost put WWE out of business during the Monday Night Wars and got them to change their product from the family friendly New Generation to the edgy Attitude Era! The matches WCW had are stellar especially when you look at earlier Starrcades from the 80s to early 90s. The only caveats were the recreation of Hulkamania in WCW, and the fever dream that was 1999 - 2001. But even the worse stuff from those times is admittably my guilty pleasure! WCW was something else back in the day and there has never been a company like it."

[8.0] "Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but WCW brings back a lot of memories, and even though some of them are very cringeworthy, most of them remind me of the good old days. The cruiserweights were awesome, the midcard characters were often very fun, and the Monday Night Wars was an exciting time!"

[10.0] "Nostalgia goggles on this big time. I loved the atmosphere of WCW. Being a Mortal Kombat and martial arts nut as a kid a lot of the gimmicks I can now say were bad was the stuff of dreams to me. My comfort promotion. Everything from the stages, the music, the color scheme is forever burned into my brain in a good way."

[3.0] "WCW had like 5 genuinely good matches that didn't include Ric Flair. Without him, they would have shuttered long before they did, and this is the embarrassment of pro wrestling above all else in america, which is hard to do when WWE has shown itself for 50 years to have about two good ideas and the rest of them the senile fetish of a disgusting man, when you go out of business to that guy, you know youre a shit fuckin business. They ruined the idea of wrestling for so many people, found a way to absolutely waste away the entire careers of fantastic talent, and genuinely produced and trained 0 good wrestlers, every single wrestler they had built their name and their style somewhere else before coming over, and would achieve heights bigger and better elsewhere, with maybe the exception of DDP and Goldberg. If it wasn't for the two of them, the Ric Flair/Ricky Steamboat matches, the Four Horsemen, and the briefly good nWo, this company would have literally no redeeming qualities."

[3.0] "To be fair, WCW deserves recognition for helping orchestrate a wrestling revolution in the 1990s. But that doesn't do a promotion a world of good when the end result saw them exist solely as a legal entity on paper beyond 2001. The promotion was wrought with in-fighting, financial mismanagement, and awful creative decisions that saw fans leave the promotion in droves and their television shows subsequently cancelled once Turner Broadcasting became a public entity. I'll always recognize their titles and talents as top level, but the promotion itself is dead and the above are reasons why."

[10.0] "Good 'Ole WCW, my all time favorite wrestling promotion. In my opinion their mid to late 90's run is by far and away the most important and influential time and place for pro-wrestling. They permanently changed the game with what they were doing and forced others to follow suite."

[10.0] "WCW is such a fucking anomaly. A promotion with such incredible talent and groundbreaking storylines that completely changed the professional wrestling landscape time and time again especially during the low points of the industry, while management wise is an absolute travesty that pretty much killed the company dead, with nails in the coffin already hammered in years before hand. 1999 - 2001 was genuinely fucking awful, mostly in due part of Vince Russo picking up the pen, Eric Bischoff being an absolute failure, and the roster being an absolute chaotic mess, though there is a couple nuggets of gold especially in the end. Before that, there were horrible decisions that not just hindered but killed the company's traction absolutely dead in it's tracks. The thing is though, I believe that people tend to focus on the negatives of this promotion, mostly due to how fucking awful those negatives were, and while I can completely understand that and I am also no better in that regard, WCW genuinely had so many great moments, and again was groundbreaking for the time. The NWO is one of the most successful factions of all time. The cruiserweight division was so influential in so many ways. NITRO completely changed weekly television, having PPV quality matches and theatrics that not even their biggest competition had. The rise in quality in WWF was because of the quality that WCW was, never forget that."

[7.0] "Rating WCW is very damn hard, WCW went through some great peaks and also some of the worst spirals in wrestling history. Early WCW was great with the Flair - Steamboat feud, the rise of Sting, heel Vader, Liger vs Pillman, and the great war games matches. Then Hogan came in and WCW got worse overall as the real talents were pushed aside for Hogan and his friends. Then the NWO happened and revolutionised wrestling, at the same time that the cruiserweights were paving the way to a new style of wrestling. The crow sting storyline was one of the best in history. But after Goldberg's streak ended, WCW had nothing and no idea. WCW became known for constant run-ins and bullshit which got worse as time went on. WCW could be great but too often it was botched and poorly booked. I do like 88-93 WCW and the cruiserweights but the hogan bullshit and the year 2000 brings it down."

[3.0] "Oh, how the mighty has fallen. The demise of WCW is pretty much expecting given how awful their content is especially its last three years. The only good thing watching in WCW is their Cruiserweight Division. Ever since the birth of nWo, WCW has gradually turned into a bad wrestling show. It became a toxic environment for the guys who doesn't belong to the "boys". It just became more likely a Hulk Hogan show and the sudden departure of Hogan makes the promotion even worse until on its very end because they are clueless on how to manage a promotion without Hogan. They are also putting washed up old timers in the main event and seeing them wrestle is extremely disappointing. And yes, don't start me with David Arquette winning the WCW World title and David Flair's run though. WCW had many absurd moments that was cringe and unbearable to watch. Simply sad, their indecisiveness had led to the ratings dropdown against their competitor, WWF (now WWE). I just hope they replaced Bischoff with someone who is more passionate in wrestling to run this show, but they are too egotistical to do so. So yeah, their closure is well-deserved."

[6.0] "I wasn't alive when WCW was airing. However, that doesn't mean that I am not going to rate it for what it is. I'd say from 1988 to 1994 is when WCW was at its absolute best in my opinion. Anything after 1994 was red hot garbage in my opinion. Sure nWo was very red hot in 1996, but I was never really invested in the nWo. For me, the nWo was just a bunch of older guys stroking their own ego to stay relevant. While they did get some relevance, it ended up biting them in the ass later on. WCW in the late 80s and early 90s were the best. Guys like Barry Windham, Big Van Vader, Dustin Rhodes, Brian Pillman, Steve Austin, Z-Man, Arn Anderson, Ric Flair, Steiners, made WCW worth watching In my opinion. WCW in the mid 90s to early 00s was just an ego power trip that got grounded by WWF."

[7.0] "Back during the 90s it was the best mid card going. The problems with WCW were that no one actually cared about the main event scene in all reality, it was just a ton of over hyped washed up seniors like Hulk Hogan making the company look like they had no clue what they were doing, and obviously 2000s take away a lot of points, but the less said about that the better. The cruiserweight devision is still some of the best matches to date with some of the best wrestlers of all time making up the midcard scene with Guerrero, Benoit, Mysterio, Malenko, and the creme de la creme Chris Jericho."

[3.0] "As a younger wrestling fan, I didn't watch WCW at all. It ended 7 years before I was born. However, I have watched some replays on Peacock. And uh, it was pretty bad. The storylines didn't really make sense to me and the wrestling was horrible. Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings there. The only substantial thing I really know about from WCW was the NWO which actually killed WCW. Maybe if I was around to watch it back then I would give it a higher ranking. Or maybe I wouldn't. Who knows. Overall WCW is mid and doesn't deserve the hype it gets."

[5.0] "A bad ending to a formerly great company. It had a lot of talents but they were too indulging in their own egos that WWE destroyed them by bringing in the Attitude Era. WWE pushed new stars, brought new storylines but WCW only ever repeated the same stuff. The storytelling got incredibly messy and they lost their narrative. Only the NWO remained hot. The company was bought. WWF won."

[9.0] "Relatively short-lived but highly influential. The famous NWO t-shirts are still good sellers to this day and there are still knock-off factions doing the rounds in US pro wrestling. While WCW was limited by the clash between corporate and wrestling culture, the best years of Nitro produced excellent TV, launching stars like Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, and Goldberg, while also rebranding 80s legends like Hulk Hogan for the sensibilities of the 90s."

[9.0] "Thank you Ted Turner for World Championship Wrestling. I absolutely LOVED WCW, until Hulk Hogan stuck a knife in it's kidneys and then after the nWo slit it's throat. So much golden goodness here. The f#cking STEINER BROTHERS, Rick Rude's career apex, neon Sting winning over America (and when paired with Ric Flair ~ the cheeseburger & fries of wrestling). CACTUS JACK, the Brutality of Big Van Vader, Stunning Steve Austin's flowing blonde locks. Dustin Rhodes holding us all in the palm of his hand. Ricky Steamboat's best stuff was under a WCW banner. Ron Simmons - Butch Reed: The Team of DOooOM, Ron Simmons in general. The Great Muta blowing American's minds. Flyin Brian Pillman being one of the most tremendous baby faces in the sport's illustrious history. This is the company that brought Jushin Thunder Liger to the USA. CACTUS JACK! I even liked the Z-Man and the Garvin/Hayes Fabulous Freebirds. Johnny B Badd? Sign me up! ARN ANDERSON EVERYTHING! All things BEAUTIFUL BOBBY EATON! Match after match featuring Brad Armstrong's stellar workmanship. Peppered with Barry Windham and marinated with Larry Zbyszko. Did I mention Cactus Jack? CACTUS JACK! Ric Flair saving many nights, Jim Ross saving others. Lex Luger's best stuff. The Bill Watts era was...eh, but had underrated material from Dick Slater & Greg Valentine. Some really good stuff with Harlem Heat. The glory of Pretty Wonderful. Even post nwo garbage there is some really great stuff ...but you must wade through some septic spewage to get there. Ultimo Dragon, Eddie Guerrero, Booker T, RICK MARTEL'S COMEBACK! , Lord Steven Regal (soo GREAT), and wouldn't you know it even Lance Storm was the saving grace of many episodes of Nitro & Thunder. I liked what Chavo Guerrero and Psychosis brought to the table but it was Rey Mysterio Jr who changed the landscape of wrestling forever with his work in WCW. La Parka's gotta get a mention. A huge overwhelming abundance of positives, the negatives proved to murder the company in the (short) long run but some of WCW's material is some of the best American wrestling PERIOD. The whole Jim Herd era is grossly underestimated and under appreciated. *sigh* fond memories. 9.25"

[6.0] "Poor WCW had so many peaks and valleys, it's almost impossible to fathom. It's thirteen year existence was a three part story of unfulfilled promise, exploding popularity and rapid, crushing decline. You don't need me to retread the story of the promotion any further, but on the balance of things I feel it had some glorious moments and some horrible blunders in the early days, that morphed into some truly captivating story-telling alongside redhot in-ring action (from the cruiserweights mainly) at it's peak, and then descended into something absolutely abysmal for it's final years. If you ignored all the bad, you'd rate it higher, but then that wouldn't be a fair rating. It feels a little harsh to ONLY give it a 6, but you've got to remember all the truly bone-headed moments, whether it's the Black Scorpion, the Shockmaster, the Fingerpoke of Doom, Rick Steiner & Chucky, Judy Bagwell on a pole, Oklahoma, Van Hammer, Halloween Havoc 98, Halloween Havoc 2000, Halloween Havoc 1995, basically every Uncensored PPV... So with that in mind a rating of satisfactory seems fair!"

[6.0] "The history of WCW can be divided into 3 chapters - early 90s and many classic matches (strongly NWA style for me) - signing names like Flair or Hogan must have been impressive, the Nitro era as an absolute peak of wrestling with a much more interesting program than WWF (underrated cruiserweight division, lots of appearances by wrestlers from Japan and Mexico, the revolutionary NWO with the necessary gimmick change for Hogan, dominance of Goldberg, great Sting metamorphosis and many other examples) and the Russo era, whose pathetic and unwatchable attempts to recreate Vince's good decisions as a writer in the WWF ended in complete failure and killing the company. WCW has made a huge mark on the wrestling world and certainly didn't deserve its premature end."

"I only became a wrestling fan after WCW was defunct for a long time, but for what I've seen (not all, but some stuff), the whole vibe of peak WCW seemed like a dream for wrestling fans. The cruserweights, japanese stars, original concepts like War Games, huge stars like Flair, Sting, nWo (before it went stale), etc. If it had a great booker in charge of everything instead of Bischoff and creative control by the top guys, it could have still been alive today as it was ran by a wrestling fan in Ted Turner. One day, I want to watch everything from their catalog, from Jim Crockett Promotions up until the end and I feel like I will have a blast."

[8.0] "WCW at its peak was my favorite wrestling promotion of all-time. Probably 1997-early 1998. A lot of bad decisions caused the downfall. The screwball finish at Starrcade 1997 was the beginning of the end. The Fingerpoke of Doom, the misuse of Bret Hart, Chucky, Robocop, and ultimately Vince Russo put the final nails in the coffin. But for every bad idea they had great stuff like the cruiserweights, the nWo (before they got too big), the Flock, Goldberg, the rise of DDP. The Jim Herd years get a lot of flack, but I was hooked on the saga of Sting and the Four Horsemen from 1989-1990. I loved WCW, but Ted Turner just bought a wrestling company and let others run it. I had a lot of good memories watching this promotion. They lost me for good when they let Benoit, Malenko, Saturn, and Eddie walk. But for a while, they were the prettiest girl at the dance."

"My favorite promotion with many good and original wrestlers ! But this organization was badly managed, due to certain legends who had too much influence."

[7.0] "Everyone remembers how it ended but if you look at its peak it had some of the best wrestling in the world. Had a great cruiserweight and Tag Team scene. Main event scene was filled with talent. Original War Games matches, the Four Horsemen, the rise of Sting all were great. The beginning of the NWO was its peak as giving too much creative control to Hogan and Nash was part of the downfall as now the shows had to revolve around them. Creative got too crazy at about the same time. Ignoring the future of the company occured which led to many great talents leaving but even towards the end you had Sting and Flair still going strong with talent like Goldberg, Storm, Booker T, Steiner and DDP giving good matches."

[8.0] "WCW was a promotion with very high highs and some very low lows. Take for example 1989, The first year of ownership by TBS, this would be, in my book a high point. Ric Flair had 2 legendary feuds with Ricky Steamboat and Terry Funk producing several 5 star classics. 1992 gave us the best WarGames match ever, Rick Rude vs Ricky Steamboat, Cactus Jack and the introduction of cruiserweights at this time called light heavyweights. An example of a low would be Vince Russos booking in the year 2000. He buried many young talents in his New Blood faction while lumping the mainstay wrestlers into the Millionaires Club. This was executed poorly as the fan favourite Millionaires Club were faces while New Blood were heels which prevented the building of new stars. I really enjoy WCW and it has produced some of the greatest wrestling ever but there is a level of inconsistency that bumps the rating down"

[3.0] "Well.. sure, WCW was memorable thanks to the Monday Night Wars that made 1990s wrestling so iconic and their cruiserweight division but you can deny how focused they were on WWE than focusing on their own identity. The pretty bad, questionable booking defines 1999-2000 WCW, the wrestling politics, too much nWo, and giving Hogan complete creative control. WCW maybe came close on taking over WWF's spot as the dominant force of wrestling, but the amount of really bad decisions just took WCW on the ground."

[6.0] "Some things were tremendous ( cruiserweight, lucha, nwo) but some other were really bad, which mainly caused the downfall of this company"

[8.0] "Some of the greatest came from there and they popularized Lucha and cruiserweight wrestling to the states. I miss WCW but sadly they caused their own downfall."

[9.0] "WCW had some amazing highs and some hilarious lows. A company that changed so often in its short history it is almost silly to try and rate but I will anyway"

[9.0] "My all time favorite wrestling company, certainly had it's bad days (the last 2 years) but overall enjoyed the product, especially during the nWo era."

[9.0] "WCW was the original competition. It's southern audience helped turn it into a major US company in the world making WWF look like it was for babies. Sadly due to bad booking decisions and bad contracts with creative control involved in alot of them, the company fell apart."

[8.0] "So much can be said about WCW; it rode the highest of highs and fell to the lowest of lows but was still the only real competition to Vince McMahon, the latter copying some ideas... some of which he really shouldn't have (inflated roster, too much creative control given to some, having celebrities wrestle high on cards, among other things). WCW were innovative with it's Cruiserweight division; which was often the highlight of the show and had rabid fans that I've not seen outside of WCCW. But sadly WCW thought the gravy train would never end and was slow to adapt, relying too much on potential quick fixes instead of long-term plans. Even at it's very worst I still loved Nitro and WCW, and very few promotions I miss and remember fondly as much as I do with WCW."

[9.0] "This had to be the most hit-or-miss promotion ever. At its lowest, it featured some of the worst and ridiculous shit ever seen in the business. However at its highest, it gave us some of the most exciting periods in wrestling history. Very difficult to rate here. Then again, it gave the then WWF its toughest competition ever, and even beat it for 83 weeks straight! Not to mention, they also played a part in creating the Attitude Era, so a nine seems fair enough."

[10.0] "This Promotion should've never died, I don't care that 2000 was a "bad" year in quality, that's just petty, this company died because AOL/Time Warner didn't want wrestling. This company died because Eric Bischoff got sued for insinuating that the WWF's Razor Ramon and Diesel were employed by WCW, and what happened? Oh nothing. Just Vince McMahon got to have first bid if WCW ever went out of business. WCW dying had zero to do with Hulk Hogan Shooting and then getting into a lawsuit with WCW and Vince Russo, It had zero to do with David Arquette winning the world title, I don't how WWE's propaganda on WCW dying is so effective that they've now just ingrained wrestling fans believing in complete and total B. S. WCW would've been sold anyway, even if 2000 was as Successful as 1997 AOL-Time Warner didn't care, they didn't want wrestling on TNT or TBS POINT BLANK. Now the company itself is not perfect like alot of other wrestling companies, they had their lows but when WCW was high it was must watch from 96-97, it was not just better than the WWF it was more popular than the WWF. WCW put on some of the greatest matches of all time, Rey vs. Eddie, Flair vs. Steamboat, Flair vs. Funk in the I Quit Match, and Vader vs. Cactus Jack in the Texas Deathmatch, all of these are classics in different ways. I'm not going to talk about their lows because they've talked to death, unfortunately just like WCW, WCW Forever."

[5.0] "Many people may remember her fondly, but her later years were grim. Maybe WCW was the first and the only one to make WWE real competition, but really if you analyze its last years or its last decade you can see its great decadence, it is known that this is the fault of the Backstage games and people like Hulk Hogan, but it does not justify the last few years of this promotion."

[8.0] "Do you rate a promotion for its high points or its low points? Or do you try to find an average, or maybe base it off its legacy? Promotions like WCW and WWE/WWF that lasted for as long as they did are bound to have both highs and lows, and WCW was no different. I'm mostly familiar with the Monday Night Wars era with nWo and the battle for viewership between WWF and WCW, and I mostly enjoyed their product. They did however have a real tendency to push wrestlers who were less than stellar in the ring because they had charisma coming out their ears, which sometimes worked out fine and other times worked out terribly. They wasted some talent and built some, but that's not unusual for promotions. They were marred by politicking and poor booking towards the end, and the later years were a farce, but there were too many fantastic moments in the early and middle years to discount the promotion based on that alone."

[3.0] "It's always sad when a company dies, but WCW really hurt the business because of all the terrible decisions that were made just because of the television ratings. Also, I think that if they won the MNW, wrestling might be much worse."

[9.0] "Because of this company I became a wrestling fan. When I was a kid, I saw that NITRO show on my grandma's TV. Goldberg was making his glorious entrance and then destroying his opponents after he entered the ring. My love for this business began that day. Eric Bischoff was a great promoter and I liked WCW style. It seemed more hardcore and less PG than other promotions, of course, until ECW came in. WCW's best feature was the roster and storylines. They hired biggest stars from other promotions and they gave them second life, developing completely new talents. Too bad, this company had to die, but there were just way too many things that didn't work to make it survive."

[3.0] "WCW had some classic matches, sure, some incredible stars, sure, more than that it has awful booking and some awful stars, also a lot of times in WCW the commentators seemed bored by side stories and just talked about feuds that didn't have anything to do with what was going on in the ring"

[6.0] "The story of WCW is very sad to follow. It was a great company that had amazing talents such as Sting, Ric Flair, Vader, Lex Luger, etc. but, there was the decline in quality in the late 90s when Vince Russo jumped ship and ruined every aspect of the company such as the wrestler's careers, and the prestige of the championships. Of course you have a lot of talent that well known for backstage politics *Cough* Hulk Hogan *Cough* and Eric Bischoff's ego didn't help with things either. Plus, you have workers like Sonny Onoo being targets of racial discrimination makes things worse. Even Ted Turner was a douchebag. Its a shame that these issues ruined a great company."

[6.0] "Sure it had a lot of great matches and known superstars but the writing was just so ridiculous (and in all eras)."

[6.0] "The glory days of the early and mid 90s don? t really make up for the disaster the World Championship Wrestling became, the perfect example of how to not run a wrestling promotion."

[9.0] "There are no words to describe how World Championship Wrestling (WCW) has landscaped the wrestling world since 1991, it's time as Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) Jim Crockett Promotions (JPC), and it's earlier days with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). After WCW had invented Starrcade, it payed the way for something that would be much greater and that would revolutionize another company; after they had made a star out of Ric Flair, they had a long relationship with the Turners; WCW and the NWA would then part ways and WCW was left to make a statement fort themselves and no one else, the NWA was never the same again; after purchasing a time slot for what would become Monday Night Nitro, would compete for supremacy in the ratings and to be on top of the wrestling world, going against the World Wrestling Federation (WWF now WWE) in a 6 year long war; after politics and work/shoots got in the ring instead of "wrestling" as of March 26, 2001 WCW was bought by the WWF, and would close down it's doors; the Professional Wrestling and Sports entertainment Industries would never be the same again. Saying that WCW was just another wrestling company would be a huge understatement."