Scott Hall as Razor Ramon, whose antics led the WWF to claim that WCW had infringed on their intellectual property History World Championship Wrestling Formation Others, such as Kevin Nash, television director Craig Leathers, chief WCW booker Terry Taylor, and Taylor's assistants Kevin Sullivan and Paul Orndorff, all contributed their own ideas to the nWo concept.
Often, propaganda-style vignettes and product commercials concerning the nWo were presented in the style of a broadcast signal intrusion, with a voice proclaiming, "The following announcement has been paid for by the New World Order". The nWo was originally portrayed as a separate entity from World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Bischoff wanted to do an invasion-type angle where World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was being sabotaged by another wrestling group, initially insinuated as being the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), since the nWo's founding members had previously wrestled for the company. UWFi match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, as New Japan's Shinya Hashimoto defeated UWFi's Nobuhiko Takada. The nWo storyline was an idea created by WCW Executive Vice President Eric Bischoff, whose inspiration for the angle came after attending New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Battle Formation show at the Tokyo Dome on April 29, 1996. 2.2.1 Feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.2.2 World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE.
2.1.5 Dissension: nWo Hollywood and nWo Wolfpac.2.1.3 Hogan becomes champion and Bischoff's secret is revealed.In December 2019, it was announced that the nWo would be inducted into the 2020 WWE Hall of Fame, with founding members Hogan, Hall, Nash,as well as the sixth member Sean Waltman, as the inducted members. The group dominated WCW programming throughout the late-1990s and continued until the dissolution of WCW in 2001, during which time there were several, sometimes rival, incarnations of the group.
The stable became the main driving force behind WCW competing with the WWF in the Monday Night Wars.įueled initially by the unexpected villainous turn of Hulk Hogan, the nWo storyline is generally considered one of the most successful angles in the history of modern-day professional wrestling, spawning several imitations and parodies, including the bWo, lWo and the jWo. The nWo angle became one of the most influential forces in the mid-to-late 1990s success of WCW and was instrumental in turning mainstream North American professional wrestling into a more mature, adult-oriented product. The group later appeared in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) after the purchase of WCW by the WWF. The stable originated in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) with the gimmick of a group of unsanctioned wrestlers aiming to " take over" and control WCW in the manner of a street gang. The New World Order (commonly abbreviated as nWo) is a famous professional wrestling stable that originally consisted of "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan (leader and co-founder)