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<blockquote class='quote\\_blockquote'><dl><dt>Quote:</dt><dd> </dd></dl><div>WWE Classics has an interesting interview with Kevin Nash and Mick Foley, who discussed January 4, 1999, the night when Mick Foley won the WWF Championship on a taped edition of Monday Night RAW, while Kevin Nash lost his WCW Championship to a returning Hulk Hogan on WCW Nitro via fingerpoke (video is above). Many at the time feel that the "Fingerpoke of Doom" led to WWE decisively taking control of the Monday Night Wars for good, although Nash disagrees.
"The 'Fingerpoke of Doom' was nothing," said Nash, who was a WCW booker at the time. "The 'Fingerpoke of Doom' was just trying to realign The nWo to face off with Goldberg and Goldberg ended up getting injured. I love how the story of my life is how I beat Goldberg to turn around and take the 'Fingerpoke of Doom' a week later. Boy, that did me a lot of good. When you look at how people perceive the whole thing, it's ridiculous."
"I wasn't aware about what had happened on Nitro that night until I saw it play out on Jan. 4," Foley admitted. "I think too much of the credit goes to me individually when a lot of the credit should go to WCW for putting on a really bad show that night. The arresting of Goldberg I thought was terrible. And for a long time, I thought WCW had the hot hand in the wrestling war. I would watch their show and go, 'Wow, they've just got that edge that we don't seem to have.' But by the time the ratings tide turned in our favor, I believe we had the better show for well more than a year. I'm not picking on Nitro, because they had some great shows, but that particular night stood out to me for being particularly bad."
During the episode of Nitro, Tony Schiavone infamously spoiled Foley's title victory on RAW, and sarcastically quipped that it would "put a lot of butts in the seats." 600,000 households then switched from Nitro to RAW, allowing WWE to win the ratings war that night and never lose again. Foley admitted that Schiavone's remark bothered him, but that the two spoke following the incident.
"It hurt at the time," Foley admitted. "When I heard it, it hurt. But no doubt about it, it turned out to be the best thing that could've possibly happened to me.
"Tony ended up calling me back and my wife answered the phone. She came to me and said, 'It's Tony Schiavone and he sounds really sad.' I knew as soon as he made that comment on air that it was probably put in his ear by Bischoff. Tony and I had a nice little conversation, but honestly I'm not bitter toward the players of that evening, because it all combined to make for the best possible scenario."
Nash went on to say that the decision to go with the title change was not in response to Foley winning the title on RAW that night.
"Oh, we didn't care what WWE was doing," Nash stated. "We were more worried about when Sable would come out, because those quarter-hour ratings of Raw would go through the roof. It was planned for about two or three weeks. It got to the point where people were disenchanted because Goldberg was undefeated. When we went to WWE's territory in Salisbury, Md., people were chanting 'Goldberg sucks.' They started pumping in the 'Goldberg' chants and it became a situation where they were trying to fabricate a situation that had been organic."
Despite ratings declining for WCW following that episode, Nash said that not much would have changed had they not gone through with the fingerpoke title change.
"Goldberg still would've put his hand through the limo window [and been injured] in a couple of months, so what's the difference?," said Nash. "A bunch of [know-it-all fans] wouldn't be as mad?"
Read more: http://www.WrestlingInc.com/wi/news/2013/0104/559213/fingerpoke-of-doom/#ixzz2H2rZT4SZ[/quote]
Typical Nash. Can we have a nice "Let's hate on Nash" thread?
"The 'Fingerpoke of Doom' was nothing," said Nash, who was a WCW booker at the time. "The 'Fingerpoke of Doom' was just trying to realign The nWo to face off with Goldberg and Goldberg ended up getting injured. I love how the story of my life is how I beat Goldberg to turn around and take the 'Fingerpoke of Doom' a week later. Boy, that did me a lot of good. When you look at how people perceive the whole thing, it's ridiculous."
"I wasn't aware about what had happened on Nitro that night until I saw it play out on Jan. 4," Foley admitted. "I think too much of the credit goes to me individually when a lot of the credit should go to WCW for putting on a really bad show that night. The arresting of Goldberg I thought was terrible. And for a long time, I thought WCW had the hot hand in the wrestling war. I would watch their show and go, 'Wow, they've just got that edge that we don't seem to have.' But by the time the ratings tide turned in our favor, I believe we had the better show for well more than a year. I'm not picking on Nitro, because they had some great shows, but that particular night stood out to me for being particularly bad."
During the episode of Nitro, Tony Schiavone infamously spoiled Foley's title victory on RAW, and sarcastically quipped that it would "put a lot of butts in the seats." 600,000 households then switched from Nitro to RAW, allowing WWE to win the ratings war that night and never lose again. Foley admitted that Schiavone's remark bothered him, but that the two spoke following the incident.
"It hurt at the time," Foley admitted. "When I heard it, it hurt. But no doubt about it, it turned out to be the best thing that could've possibly happened to me.
"Tony ended up calling me back and my wife answered the phone. She came to me and said, 'It's Tony Schiavone and he sounds really sad.' I knew as soon as he made that comment on air that it was probably put in his ear by Bischoff. Tony and I had a nice little conversation, but honestly I'm not bitter toward the players of that evening, because it all combined to make for the best possible scenario."
Nash went on to say that the decision to go with the title change was not in response to Foley winning the title on RAW that night.
"Oh, we didn't care what WWE was doing," Nash stated. "We were more worried about when Sable would come out, because those quarter-hour ratings of Raw would go through the roof. It was planned for about two or three weeks. It got to the point where people were disenchanted because Goldberg was undefeated. When we went to WWE's territory in Salisbury, Md., people were chanting 'Goldberg sucks.' They started pumping in the 'Goldberg' chants and it became a situation where they were trying to fabricate a situation that had been organic."
Despite ratings declining for WCW following that episode, Nash said that not much would have changed had they not gone through with the fingerpoke title change.
"Goldberg still would've put his hand through the limo window [and been injured] in a couple of months, so what's the difference?," said Nash. "A bunch of [know-it-all fans] wouldn't be as mad?"
Read more: http://www.WrestlingInc.com/wi/news/2013/0104/559213/fingerpoke-of-doom/#ixzz2H2rZT4SZ[/quote]
Typical Nash. Can we have a nice "Let's hate on Nash" thread?