New Column Added To Google Site- "WCW’s “Ultimate Renegade"

Below is a sample of my latest column for the Google site:

"Retro Wrestling: WCW’s "Ultimate Renegade": By Matthew Evans (22/01/2012)


For my latest edition of my "Retro Wrestling" columns, I thought I’d go back way back in time to 1995. It was a much simpler time in pro wrestling and a time where the business in general was in a slump.


Vince McMahon’s WWF (World Wrestling Federation) were struggling to recreate the success of the "Rock N’ Wrestling"/ "Hulkamania" era with their "New Generation" campaign. ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) was still in its infancy but was already growing a cult following with it’s fresh brand of a more adult-orientated product, the likes of which the WWF couldn’t (or wouldn’t) consider a good business strategy at the time.

WCW (World Championship Wrestling) had left the WWF "smarting" long before the launch of Nitro and the start of the infamous "Monday Night War." You see, in 1994, they had acquired undoubtedly their biggest acquisition to date, the WWF’s own Immortal Hulk Hogan.

Of course, one major former WWF star was missing from the group and had WCW attained him in 1995, would have been the 3rd biggest "coup" following Hogan and Savage: The Ultimate Warrior......

The full article can be read at the following link:

https://sites.google.com/site/ringriot/home/columns/retro-wrestling-wcw-s-ultimate-renegade-by-matthew-evans