How The NWO Would Have Ended Under Tony Schiavone

Tony Schiavone witnessed the rise and fall of the NWO from the announce desk in WCW but how would he have brought the iconic group to an end?

One of the most iconic moments in wrestling history saw Hulk Hogan turn his back on WCW and join Kevin Nash and Scott Hall to form the New World Order. The group grew to be perhaps the most iconic in wrestling history with the group’s t-shirts continuing to sell almost 30 years later.

However, despite the star power involved and their place in history, the NWO went out with a whimper rather than a bang on more than one occasion.

The group limped along without any of the original members until the fall of 2000, just a few short months before WCW was out of business. One of the common criticisms of the NWO was that it failed to make many big stars that could dent its seemingly never-ending power but one man who saw their rise and fall up close knows who he’d have called on to bring the NWO to a fitting conclusion.

How The NWO Would Have Ended Under Tony Schiavone

Speaking on his What Happened When podcast, Tony Schiavone explains how he would have brought the NWO to a more definitive end:

The fitting ending would have been Sting because Sting was their nemesis, allegedly, through all of this. I know that we got the Wolfpac and the tomato-faced Sting and even Hulk Hogan went back to Hulkamania.

But I think I would’ve stretched it out to where Sting would have faced Hogan, gone over Hogan and the NWO would have dissolved from there. There are a few more pieces to that to make it better but that would have been the main idea.

Former WCW President Eric Bischoff has previously revealed the mistake he made in casting the NWO as it quickly became bloated, diminishing its lustre in short order.

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