by James Holder

Professional wrestling changed forever on May 27th, 1996 as Scott Hall
made his way to the ring on WCW Nitro. As far as fans were aware, Hall
was still with the WWF, and in a short promo, he promised that a war was coming. This led to the arrival of Kevin Nash just two weeks later, and
the original nWo was formed at Bash At The Beach when Hulk Hogan turned
heel to join the Outsiders.

However, over the next two years, the group grew incredibly and
eventually splintered off into multiple factions. To this day, some fans
feel this rapid unchecked growth of the group was the beginning of the
end for WCW as the storyline was eventually completely out of control.

One of the men behind the booking of the group was Kevin Sullivan who had
been a regular fixture in wrestling since the 1970s. Although Sullivan
remained on television into the mid-1990s he retired from in-ring action
in 1997 and focused his attention on his role as a booker.

During an exclusive new interview with Nick Hausman for Inside The Ropes, Sullivan compared the nWo with the more recent success of The Bloodline
in WWE. The former World Tag Team Champion suggested that the nWo should
have been kept much smaller, only including four or five stars, joking
they were handing out t-shirts just expecting those involved to get over.

“The Bloodline has done this, they’ve kept it within their family. We
were starting to throw t-shirts at guys and think they were gonna get
over with a t-shirt.

We had four — it went from, it was Hogan, Nash, Hall and Syxx. That’s all it should have been. And maybe Steiner. We were throwing t-shirts at
everybody. And then we had, you know, the black and white and Wolf Pack.
I mean, we got to everybody, I expected the milkman to show up in the
morning with a shirt.”

read more at: https://itrwrestling.com/news/exclusive-kevin-sullivan-admits-the-nwo- should-have-been-booked-differently/

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