A cool special edition of WCW Magazine that covers all of 1998 along with the prestigious WCW Magazine Reader Awards! Wrestler of the Year! Cruiserweight of the Year! Match of the Year!! Runner…Up of the Year?
Apologies on this one not being as clean as some of my other magazine scans. This issue was a larger, squattier magazine compared to the others from this era, and the print for this issue was slightly off as well. Some of the page’s internal boxes and borders didn’t line up straight on my copy which made editing this an absolutely nightmare for my eyes.
Anyways, 1998 is over and things are looking good for World Championship Wrestling! We’ve seen the rise of the unstoppable Goldberg and the eventual end of his undefeated streak at WCW Starrcade. The New World Order splintered off to two groups, nWo Hollywood and the nWo Wolfpac. Sting painted his face red and after a year of being the silent vigilante, he refused to shut the hell up. Scott Steiner became Big Poppa Pump. Chavo Guerrero lost his mind. Billy Kidman became his own man away from Raven’s influence. The Latino World Order formed. The Ultimate Warrior returned and revealed himself to be the Ultimate Thesaurus in his rambling promos. Diamond Dallas Page proved that he belonged in the main event scene. Dennis Rodman, Karl Malone and Jay Leno all competed in a WCW ring!
Jericho Personal Security. Judy Bagwell. Eric Bischoff beat Vince McMahon by forfeit at WCW Slamboree.
Everything is looking great! Can’t wait until January 1999 with good guy Kevin Nash as the WCW World Heavyweight Champion!
Welp. WCW was fun while it lasted.
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40-year-old World Championship Wrestling fanatic/collector/hoarder. Safety officer by day, scanner of wrestling magazine by night.
He’s got posters on the wall, his favorite rock group’s KISS.
WCW had so much promise and fell flat on its arse
Steven Spenadel I loved the Monday night wars, kids these days don’t understand how good it was back then compared to now
Gav Nutton your right, we had so much choice but I always followed Hogan, longing for his red/yellow return lol. WCW shoukd of won that war, but it had the same idea for like 4 years, nWo run in and interfere zzzzzz
The Monday night Wars was my teenage years I remember going to school the next day on a Tuesday morning at half of us were divided between raw and Nitro so many great memories I wish that I had a time machine and be 15 years old again
It’s just sad that what really helped kill WCW was Hulk Hogan’s Ego and his creative control
Yeah, yet it was also him that made it a contender. WCW just didn’t know when nWo was getting boring. Unlike Vince he knew DX had ran its course
1998 was the definitive year of my WCW (and wrestling) fandom.
The good times were good but the bad times were really…freaking…bad
Hi do you have the WCW Magazine issue from March 1997 by any chance? I’ve heard that it had a Debra McMichael (big fan) pictorial in it and I’m just curious about the validity of that. Thank you