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New World Order
File:NWo logo.jpg
The original logo of the New World Order.
Stable
MembersSee Members
Name(s)New World Order,
nWo
DebutJuly 7 1996
DisbandedJuly 15 2002

The New World Order (commonly known as nWo, the official typeset in the logo) was a professional wrestling stable that originally wrestled for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The group later appeared in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) after the purchase of WCW by WWF.

The stable's gimmick was a group of wrestlers aiming to "take over" and control WCW. They would first emerge in mid-1996. Throughout the late-1990s, there were several incarnations of the nWo. The nWo was influential in the success of WCW (and ironically, the downfall of it).[citation needed]

History

World Championship Wrestling

Formation

In 1996, both Scott Hall and Kevin Nash left the WWF to sign with WCW. Hall first appeared on WCW TV live on the Memorial Day 1996 edition of Monday Nitro by interrupting a match by walking down through the crowd into the ring. He then delivered his "You Want A War?" speech, stating that he had a challenge for Eric Bischoff and any WCW superstar. As Nitro neared its end, Hall accompanied Bischoff in the broadcast booth and demand that he tell Ted Turner to pick three of his best wrestlers. The next week, Hall reappeared on Nitro five minutes before the end of the broadcast and again interrogated Bishoff. The following week on Nitro, Sting confronted and slapped Hall after Hall spit a toothpick at him and said he had a "little...no...BIG surprise" for Sting. Kevin Nash was then revealed as Hall's surprise, and the two were dubbed The Outsiders.

At The Great American Bash '96, Eric Bischoff (having the power as Executive Vice-President of WCW) invited The Outsiders to do an interview. Bischoff promised them a match at Bash at the Beach, but Hall was skeptical whether Bischoff had chosen his three WCW representatives in the match. This led to Nash powerbombing Bishoff through the interview stage, after Bishoff refused to reveal the identities of his representatives.[1]

At Bash at the Beach, Hall and Nash appeared by themselves, without their third partner for a match scheduled originally to be Hall, Nash, and their partner against Lex Luger, Sting, and Randy Savage. Gene Okerlund asked for their partner, but with no answer as to the identity of the mystery partner, the match began. Shortly into the match, Luger was injured, requiring medical attention shortly after Sting hit Nash with a Stinger Splash in the corner while Nash was holding Luger, crushing him in the attack. Paramedics treated Luger after taking him away to the back. Sting and Savage were left to fight The Outsiders. Hulk Hogan later appeared as The Outsider's mystery partner after he attacked Savage.[2] Hogan revealed that his turn occurred because he was tired of fans that had turned on him. Hogan called the new faction "new world order of professional wrestling," beginning a feud between wrestlers loyal to WCW and the nWo.

1996

Soon after the nWo formed, the stable began appearing on Monday Nitro, causing mayhem and attacking WCW wrestlers. After Hulk Hogan won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from The Giant, Hall and Nash sprayed the letters "n.W.o" on to the title and began to refer it on occasion as the "n.W.o World Heavyweight Championship. The spraying of the belt was the first step of what they referred to as "taking over" WCW.

As WCW's annual pay-per-view Fall Brawl was drawing closer, WCW was preparing their team to fight at War Games against the nWo. The nWo tricked fans into thinking that Sting was gaining entry into the nWo. At War Games, the nWo won the match controversially as two Stings fought in the match: "nWo" Sting and "Real" Sting. The real Sting was revealed as an aid to WCW, and as fans believed that the real Sting had joined the nWo, he declared that he would not help WCW in the war against the nWo.[3]

Soon after the nWo won at Fall Brawl:War Games, they began establishing new members into the stable, including Ted DiBiase (who was "financing" the group, a counter-part to his "Million Dollar Man" gimmick in the WWF), Vincent (as "head of security"), Syxx,[4] and The Giant. Referee Nick Patrick became the group's official referee after he showed favoritism to nWo members during their matches. The nWo continued to dominate WCW, winning many matches including Hulk Hogan successfully retaining his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Scott Hall and Kevin Nash winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship from Harlem Heat.

As WCW only recognized Hogan, Nash, and Hall as WCW employees due to them holding WCW titles, the other nWo members were unrecognized as WCW employees. Because of this, they were unable to wrestle other WCW wrestlers which led to the nWo starting a segment on WCW Saturday Night, called nWo Saturday Night, where nWo stable members wrestled jobbers in an empty arena.

WCW President Eric Bishoff was revealed as a member of the nWo after Roddy Piper exposed Bishoff's membership on-air. Bishoff then threatened the WCW locker room, telling them to join the nWo or be a target of the group. Soon after Bishoff's threat, many members joined the nWo including Marcus Alexander Bagwell, one of the first to join, turning on his American Males tag team partner, Scotty Riggs, and renaming himself "Buff" Bagwell. Others who joined the nWo were Scott Norton, Big Bubba Rogers, and V.K. Wallstreet. Japanese wrestler Masahiro Chono also joined the group and established himself as the leader of nWo Japan, a sister-like stable in NJPW.

On November 24 1996, The Giant won a 60-man battle royal at World War 3, earning a title match against Hogan. On December 29 at Starrcade, Roddy Piper defeated Hulk Hogan in a non-title match. The next night on Nitro, The Giant was kicked out of the nWo when he refused to chokeslam Roddy Piper in an nWo assault.

Toward the end of the year, on an episode of Nitro, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash introduced Kyle Petty from NASCAR as an honorary member of the group, as Petty drove the nWo racing car on the Busch Series circuit. An angle was run where the Steiner Brothers vandalized the nWo car at a racetrack, kayfabe scaring off Petty and replacing him with another driver, who drove a WCW-sponsored car for the same race team.

1997

In January, the nWo held their own Pay-Per-View event, entitled Souled Out. Hogan and The Giant fought to a no contest in the main event due to the nWo referee, Nick Patrick, being biased in the match. Nash and Hall lost their WCW Tag Titles to the Steiner Brothers at Souled Out, but were rewarded the titles the next night on Nitro after Bishoff claimed that Randy Anderson, who ran in to officiate after Nick Patrick was knocked down, was not an official referee for Souled Out.

On February 23, 1997 at Super Brawl VII, Roddy Piper wrestled Hogan in a losing effort. In the same match, Randy Savage returned and joined the nWo when he attacked Piper during the match. Eric Bischoff was then suspended by Harvey Schiller,[5] president of Turner Sports because of Bischoff abusing his power. Schiller also stripped the nWo of two members, V.K Wallstreet and Big Bubba Rogers, because they were employees of WCW.[6]

The nWo, which consisted of Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Randy Savage, and Kevin Nash, won a triple-threat tag team match at Uncensored against Team WCW, which consisted of Lex Luger, Scott Steiner, and The Giant (Rick Steiner was originally selected to wrestle for Team WCW but was attacked and unable to make the match), and Team Horsemen, which consisted of Chris Benoit, Steve McMichael, Jeff Jarret, and Roddy Piper. A stipulation was added that if the nWo won, they would have the privilege to challenge for any WCW title at any time or location.

At Spring Stampede, both Nick Patrick and Ted Dibiase quit the nWo after a gruesome attack on Rick Steiner by Kevin Nash. The nWo recruited The Great Muta and Hiroyoshi Tenzan several weeks after Spring Stampede, making occasional appearances, due to them being signed with NJPW.

Hogan lost the WCW World Championship on an episode of Nitro against Lex Luger,[7] after he earned a title shot defeating Hogan and Dennis Rodwan with his partner The Giant. However, Hogan regained the World title at Road Wild.

A War Games match was announced for Fall Brawl, after the nWo mocked The Four Horsemen by dressing as them. Team nWo defeated The Four Horsemen after Curt Henning, who had joined The Four Horsemen a month earlier, turned on the Horsemen and joined the nWo.[8]

Rick Rude joined the nWo on an episode of Nitro on the same night he made a pre-taped appearance on RAW is WAR. He talked about how he felt sympathy for Bret Hart for the Montreal Screwjob and how he had a grudge against Hart for ending his career in a match in Japan three years earlier.

Scott Hall then won a 60 man Battle Royal at World War 3, earning a future WCW World Championship title shot.

Bret Hart made his WCW debut on the December 15, 1997 edition of Nitro. Instead of joining the nWo, however, he agreed to be the special referee in the match pitting Larry Zbyszko against the nWo's Eric Bischoff. The winner of the match would gain control of WCW Monday Nitro.

On the Monday before Starrcade, the nWo staged a complete takeover of WCW Monday Nitro. The nWo tore down the set and ran off commentators Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan, and Mike Tenay. They then replaced all WCW logos with the nWo logo and turned WCW Monday Nitro into nWo Monday Nitro. After a year-long battle between the nWo and WCW, it seemed as if the nWo was poised to take full control. This event was intended as a legit test run for a permanent changeover of Nitro to an nWo-centric show, with the soon-debuting Thunder becoming the WCW-centric prime-time show.[citation needed] However, due to abysmal ratings following the twenty-plus minutes of the conversion of the set on live television, the plan for an nWo weekly show was quietly dropped, with the only evidence being the occasional nWo Monday Nitro t-shirt being worn by an nWo member.[citation needed]

At Starrcade, Zbyszko defeated Bischoff by disqualification after Scott Hall interfered. This gave full control of Nitro to WCW. In the main event, Hogan lost the WCW Championship to Sting. Hogan had originally pinned Sting, but confusion arose when Bret Hart appeared at ringside and accused referee and former nWo member Nick Patrick of making a fast count, claiming "it would never happen again." Hart laid out Patrick and ordered the match to continue with himself as the referee. Hogan then submitted to Sting's Scorpion Death Lock.

1998

Because of the controversy surrounding Sting's title win, James J. Dillon vacated the title on January 8, 1998 on the inaugural episode of WCW Thunder and announced a title match between Sting and Hogan to take place at SuperBrawl VIII. This prompted Sting to finally speak after 16 months, telling Dillon "You have no guts!" before turning to Hogan and declaring him a "dead man". Meanwhile, Dusty Rhodes, former WWF star Brian Adams, and Hogan's best friend Ed Leslie (now known as The Disciple) all joined the nWo.

Soon, problems began to arise between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage. Savage had attempted to defeat Lex Luger on numerous occasions, but lost because of botched interference from fellow nWo members, including Hogan. This led to heated arguments between Savage and Hogan, and there were near physical confrontations between Savage and Nash. On February 22, 1998, at SuperBrawl VIII, Sting defeated Hogan to win the vacated world title, with help from Randy Savage. Savage then made his intentions clear: He did not need the nWo's help, and now that Hogan had dropped the ball, he was intent on beating Sting himself to take the WCW title back to the nWo. Hogan & Savage tried to one-up each other on episodes of Nitro and WCW Thunder. On March 15, 1998, at Uncensored, Savage and Hogan attempted to settle their differences in a steel cage match. The match ended in a no contest. On the same card, Scott Hall received his title shot against Sting, but lost the match. Savage then stated to Hogan that there were certain members of the nWo who were plotting to throw him out of the group.

In the meantime, the nWo added a new member, as Scott Steiner turned on his brother Rick at SuperBrawl (while the two were reigning tag team champions) and joined the nWo, renaming himself "Big Poppa Pump" and dying his hair and goatee blonde.

The rift between the different factions of the nWo grew wider after nWo member Sean Waltman (Syxx) was released from his contract and Scott Hall was taken off TV. Kevin Nash confronted Hogan and Bischoff on March 26, 1998 at Thunder. Hulk Hogan stated that Waltman "could not cut the mustard" and that he did not know the whereabouts of Scott Hall. The differences within the nWo were becoming more apparent. Randy Savage and Kevin Nash were suddenly realizing that Hogan was only looking out for himself, and the nWo was secondary. Kevin Nash sided with Savage after Hogan had interfered in a number of Sting/Nash matches, not wanting to have to face Nash to take back his title. Kevin Nash supported Savage in his quest to defeat Sting, but also agreed to team with Hogan against the returning Roddy Piper and The Giant in a Bat Match. Nash made it clear, however, that he would just as soon use the bat on Hogan. On April 19, 1998, at Spring Stampede, Hogan & Nash defeated Piper and The Giant. After the match, Hogan assaulted Kevin Nash. Randy Savage beat Sting to become WCW World Heavyweight Champion with help from Nash on the same night. The next night on Nitro, Hogan challenged Savage for the title.

During the match, interference by both Kevin Nash and Bret Hart played a major role. Late in the match, with Hogan appearing to have Savage beat, Nash powerbombed Hogan and placed Savage on top of him. However, Hart interfered moments later, attacking Nash and Savage and preserving the win for Hogan. Although Nash's interference didn't work out the way he had planned, it signaled the breakup of the original nWo into two separate factions. On May 4, 1998, Kevin Nash, Randy Savage, and Konnan appeared wearing black shirts with a red nWo logo, as opposed to the familiar white logo. They called themselves nWo Wolfpac, and were joined in the following weeks by Curt Hennig, Miss Elizabeth, and Rick Rude. Hogan's side were the original Black & White, also known as nWo Hollywood: Eric Bischoff, Scott Steiner, Scott Norton, Vincent, The Disciple, and Brian Adams. Bret Hart seemed to be siding with Hogan, but was never officially named an nWo member. nWo members Scott Hall & Buff Bagwell were out of action at this time, and their alliances were not yet known.

On May 17, 1998, at Slamboree, Scott Hall returned wearing the red & black, and joined his partner Kevin Nash in a scheduled tag-team title defense against Sting and The Giant, who had recently rejoined the nWo on Hogan's side (making Sting his unwilling partner in the match, which had been signed prior to Giant's defection back to the nWo). During the match, Scott Hall turned on Nash and joined nWo Hollywood, giving the tag team titles to Sting and Giant. On May 25, 1998, Lex Luger joined the nWo Wolfpac, stating "it just feels right", and asked Sting to do the same. On June 1, 1998, Sting also joined the nWo Wolfpac. On June 14, 1998, Curt Hennig and Rick Rude jumped back to nWo Hollywood after attacking Konnan after losing a match to Bill Goldberg. The next night, Nash became a tag team champion again as Sting, who won control of the tag team titles from The Giant in a singles match, chose Nash as his partner. They held said championships for a little over a month, dropping them to Hall and Giant on Nitro thanks to interference from Bret Hart.

On July 2, 1998 during an episode of Thunder from Columbus, Georgia, J.J. Dillon announced that next Monday on the Supercard from the Georgia Dome, United States Champion, the undefeated Bill Goldberg, would challenge Hogan for the World Title in a mandatory title for title unification match. That Monday, July 6, 1998, Hulk Hogan lost his world title to Goldberg by pinfall after Scott Hall failed to defeat Goldberg in an earlier match. During the summer of 1998, Hogan & Eric Bischoff feuded with the likes of Jay Leno and Karl Malone, while Kevin Nash attempted to gain revenge on Scott Hall.

The nWo Wolfpac became hugely popular amongst wrestling fans in the summer of 1998 while continuing their battle with nWo Hollywood. Meanwhile, Hulk Hogan had his own battle to deal with in the form of The Warrior, who returned to wrestling on an August edition of WCW Monday Nitro. Warrior formed his own faction dubbed the One Warrior Nation, which included himself and former nWo member The Disciple.

On October 25, 1998, at Halloween Havoc, Scott Hall defeated Kevin Nash by count out. Hulk Hogan defeated The Warrior when Hogan's nephew, Horace, interfered and joined nWo Hollywood. Bret Hart defeated Wolfpac member Sting, putting him out of action for about 6 months.

On November 22, 1998, at World War 3, nWo Hollywood attacked Scott Hall and kicked him out of the group for disrespecting Hogan and Bischoff a few weeks earlier. Kevin Nash went on to win the 60 man battle royal and earned a WCW World Title shot. On the Thanksgiving episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, nWo Hollywood leader Hulk Hogan announced his retirement from professional wrestling. Scott Steiner went on to assume the leadership role in the nWo Hollywood faction.

During that same month, Harlem Heat's Stevie Ray, who had previously flirted with the possibility of becoming a member of the nWo, officially joined nWo Hollywood after turning on Booker T.

On December 27, 1998, at Starrcade, nWo Wolfpac leader Kevin Nash won the WCW World Heavyweight Title by defeating Bill Goldberg when Scott Hall interfered and used a stun gun on Goldberg. Nash, however, did not see the attack and pinned Goldberg. The next night on Monday Nitro, Randy Savage returned wearing an nWo black-and-white t-shirt, but instead helped Ric Flair defeat Eric Bischoff in a match to determine the WCW presidency.

1999

Main article: The Fingerpoke of Doom

On the January 4, 1999 episode of Nitro, Goldberg was scheduled to have a championship rematch with Nash. A false imprisonment instigated by the nWo removed Goldberg from the match, causing the match to be replaced with Nash vs. the returning Hulk Hogan. In the match, which has been called the "Fingerpoke of Doom" by fans, after the bell rang to begin the bout, Hogan poked Nash in the chest, after which Nash fell to the mat until Hogan was able to get the pin and win the match. The conspiracy led to a reorganization of the nWo, with the nWo elite (Hogan, Nash, Hall, Buff Bagwell, Scott Steiner, Lex Luger and Miss Elizabeth) reunited under the Wolfpac label, while the undercard wrestlers in the nWo continued in the "black and white" faction. This short-lived group was sardonically labeled the nWo B-Team by fans and commentators.

End of the nWo era

By mid 1999, the nWo had disappeared, as Hogan was injured in a four way dance ppv match for the world title. Meanwhile Nash won the world title from DDP. When Hogan returned four months later Nash was not part of the Wolfpac and Hogan eventually turned back to the red-and-yellow look of days past. In late 1999, the nWo came back for one more run as the silver and black (rather than black and white). This version was also referred to as "nWo 2000" and the word "new" in "new World order" logo was underlined to emphasize that this was a new version of the group. Consisting of Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Bret Hart, Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, and the Harris twins (Don and Ron). Several fitness models (Tylene Buck, April Hunter, Kim Kanner, Midajah and Pamela Paulshock) were brought in to come to ringside with the group only to be ordered to the back by Jeff Jarrett. This nWo lasted into early 2000, but soon faded away, in great part due to the injury and retirement of Bret "The Hitman" Hart, the leader of the group by getting side kicked by Bill Goldberg. By this point, not only the nWo, but WCW as a whole, had lapsed into what seemed to be an inevitable and permanent decline, constantly bettered by the WWF and relegated to a permanent second-place status, a situation many longtime WCW fans blamed in part on WCW management having stayed with the nWo storyline for entirely too long. The lead heel group in WCW was eventually replaced by The New Blood.

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

2002

After the WWF bought WCW in 2001, Vince McMahon brought in Hogan, Hall and Nash as the nWo, at the No Way Out PPV on February 17, 2002. In this storyline, the nWo was brought in as McMahon's allies in an attempt to "kill" the WWF so that McMahon would not have to share power with new WWF "co-owner" Ric Flair. However, Hogan left the group after he lost his WrestleMania X8 match with The Rock and was assaulted after that match by Hall and Nash. Hogan's comeback to the WWF after 8 years had fans cheering him, more than even The Rock. As a result, he turned face and began feuding with Hall and Nash, with The Rock at his side. Hall and Nash brought in two nWo members afterwards, X-Pac (formerly known as Syxx, who was also a former nWo member whilst in WCW), on March 21, 2002, at SmackDown! in Ottawa, Ontario and Big Show (formerly known as The Giant), on April 22, 2002.

The nWo reunion in the WWF did not last long, however. During an attack on Bradshaw, Kevin Nash injured his bicep and was put out of action for several months. Meanwhile, Hall asked for his release from WWE in May 2002, because he was in the middle of a custody dispute with his ex-wife over their two children, according to Kevin Nash (Nash made that statement during media promotions in Detroit for Vengeance 2002). This dispute led to Scott Hall getting drunk on an airline flight back from the U.K. and getting into an altercation. Upon returning to the United States, Hall was immediately fired. Flair became a semi-member of the nWo after turning on Stone Cold Steve Austin. As owner of RAW, Flair set up a lumberjack match with Austin against the newest member of the nWo, which turned out to be Booker T. Booker had just finished a silly skit with Goldust minutes earlier, where he had been wearing a lumberjack costume and fake beard, all but destroying his "tough" momentum going into the match. Nash introduced Shawn Michaels into the nWo on June 3, 2002. Michaels then "kicked" Booker out of the nWo (he literally hit Booker with his Sweet Chin Music) one week later.

Final nWo Appearance

On July 8, Kevin Nash returned to action on RAW, teaming up with X-Pac, the Big Show, Chris Benoit, and Eddie Guerrero to take on Booker T, Goldust, Bubba Ray Dudley, Spike Dudley, and Rob Van Dam. Seconds after tagging in for the first time, Nash tore his quadricep by merely stepping across the ring, immediately putting him back on the injured list. This infamous incident still remains a popular topic amongst internet wrestling fans to goof on Kevin Nash about. On the following RAW (July 15), Vince McMahon came out to the ring to the entrance of the nWo, claiming that the group was officially disbanded. This marked the last time anything regarding the nWo was seen on WWE programming.

Members

Each of the following wrestlers have, at some point, been a member of some official incarnation of the New World Order:

Unofficial Members

  • Vince McMahon - Brought the nWo into the WWF and appeared on their side in the feuds against Rock and Austin that went up to WrestleMania X8. He had little to do with the group after that time, although after Kevin Nash's injury, McMahon came to the ring on the following RAW for an interview to the nWo theme song and entrance lights. He said he was doing so to give nWo fans a send-off for the group as, with Flair no longer owning any portion of WWE and McMahon again in total control of his company, they were "no longer needed". McMahon hinted at the 1996 lawsuit during the prelude to the 2001 WCW Invasion, when he mentioned "certain superstars" aiding him in defeating WCW.
  • Ric Flair - After making his second-to-latest heel run by turning on Austin, Flair began helping the nWo and vice versa. Flair even made Booker T a member, but Flair was never mentioned to be part of the group.
  • Goldust - During nWo's 3rd incarnation, Goldust signed a petition to join the nWo. He began wearing black-and-white make-up and wearing the nWo shirt. He also began hanging around the group, especially Booker T. The nWo hated Goldust but Kevin Nash gave him a chance to join, saying if he could beat X-Pac, he would replace him on the team. Goldust lost the match.

nWo Origin

The nWo storyline was an idea WCW Executive Vice President Eric Bischoff came up with after attending a New Japan Pro Wrestling show. He wanted to do an invasion-type angle where WCW was kayfabe being sabotaged by another wrestling group (initially insinuated as being the WWF, since its founding members formerly wrestled there). The nWo was originally portrayed as a separate entity from WCW (often, propaganda-style vignettes and product commercials concerning the nWo were preceded by an "interruption in the feed", and a voice proclaiming, "The following announcement has been paid for by the New World Order").

Others, such as Scott Hall, television director Craig Leathers, chief WCW booker Terry Taylor, and his assistants Kevin Sullivan and Paul Orndorff all contributed their own ideas to the nWo concept. For instance, the logo was designed by Craig Leathers, Scott Hall is credited with the group's trademark hand-signals, and Terry Taylor belatedly scrawled the group's most popular catchphrase, "When you're nWo, you're nWo 4 life," in one segment he scripted for WCW Monday Nitro in late 1996.

WWE Lawsuit

Shortly after the nWo was formed, WWE (known then as the WWF) filed a lawsuit, claiming that the New World Order storyline implied that Hall and Nash were invaders sent by Vince McMahon to destroy WCW, despite the fact that Bischoff asked Nash point-blank on camera at the Great American Bash, "Are you employed by the WWF?" to which Nash emphatically replied, "No." Another reason for the lawsuit was that the WWF claimed Scott Hall acted in a manner too similar to the "Razor Ramon" character, which was owned by the WWF . The lawsuit dragged on for several years before being settled out of court. In court documents, the WWF argued that "TBS proposed interpromotional matches in order to associate WCW with WWF" before the New World Order angle was created.[9]

Spinoffs and parodies

A popular faction that debuted during the World Wrestling Federation's Attitude Era. Many fans still argue whether DX was a parody, a rip-off, or an answer to the nWo. Most fans realize, however, that Hall and Nash, DX centerfolds Triple H and Shawn Michaels, and Sean Waltman (who was in both groups as Syxx in WCW and X-Pac in the WWF/WWE.) are all real-life friends in their self-named backstage group "The Clique." Historically, DX officially consisted of Triple H, Michaels, Chyna, Rick Rude, X-Pac, and the New Age Outlaws.
Stevie Richards', Nova's, and The Blue Meanie's answer to the nWo in ECW, the group was a parody of the nWo, and its primary colors were blue and white.
After Eddie Guerrero's spat with WCW head Eric Bischoff, a real-life conflict that was turned into a storyline, Eddie formed the Latino World Order, or "LWO" for short. The group consisted of every major Latin wrestler on the WCW roster except for Eddie's nephew Chavo Jr., with green, white, and red as their official colors.
  • oWn (One Warrior Nation)
The Warrior's group, the One Warrior Nation, reversed the nWo acronym when the Warrior made his WCW debut. The newer faction only grew to have two members - the other being Hollywood Hulk Hogan's associate and real-life friend The Disciple, who Warrior supposedly brainwashed. The oWn was basically forgotten about after Warrior could not come to terms with WCW over pay and was later released to never be heard from again.
The J.O.B. Squad was a faction in ECW/WWF that was a parody of the nWo. The J.O.B. Squad logo and the phrase, 1-2-3 4-life were also parodies of the nWo.
  • Dynamite World Order
The Dynamite World Order was a group formed in 1996 by wrestlers who had quit the Slammers Wrestling Federation. Led by future Xtreme Pro Wrestling superstars "Dynamite D" Darren McMillan and Tim "Damien Steele" Fisher, they - in a non-scripted incident - stormed the ring at a Slammers Wrestling Federation and proceeded to run down the SWF and its promoter, Verne Langdon. The incident had a major role in leading to the formation of Xtreme Pro Wrestling.
  • pWo (Pussy World Order)
A splinter faction of Women's Extreme Wrestling (aka "Women's Erotic Wrestling"), an all female promotion located in Philadelphia. The pWo was the first major push into x-rated storylines for WEW, and saw several adult film actresses - Taylor St. Clair, Angelica Sin, Keri Windsor and Aria - "invade" WEW. Stephanie Bellars AKA George Frankenstein was later added to this group.

References

  1. ^ http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/wcw/nwohist.htm
  2. ^ http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/wcw/nwohist.htm
  3. ^ http://www.wrestlingencyclopedia.com/nwo/history.html
  4. ^ http://www.wrestlingencyclopedia.com/nwo/history.html
  5. ^ http://wrestlingcity.wetpaint.com/page/nwo+history?t=anon
  6. ^ http://wrestlingcity.wetpaint.com/page/nwo+history?t=anon History of the nWo
  7. ^ http://wrestlingcity.wetpaint.com/page/nwo+history?t=anon The nWo History
  8. ^ http://wrestlingcity.wetpaint.com/page/nwo+history?t=anon nWo History
  9. ^ http://wrestlingperspective.com/legal/titantbs.html
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