WWE: Admit That the New World Order Will Never Return

15 years ago today, Lex Luger became the WCW champion on an episode of Nitro. That happened twice, so it wouldn't sound like too much of a big deal.

This reign began just days before Road Wild, when Luger was supposed to have a title match with Hollywood Hulk Hogan. Instead, Luger faced Hogan days earlier on Nitro and won the WCW Championship, ending Hogan and the New World Order's reign with the title, which had lasted 359 days.

It had been the first world title for the nWo since its formation and was won at Hog Wild, the name given to the Road Wild pay-per-view from the year before.

Luger would go into the pay-per-view in Sturgis, South Dakota just days later and lose the championship back to Hogan, but the symbolic loss was the first real damage done to the nWo in WCW. The group had taken the world title and spray painted it with the letters of the nWo, defacing it and holding it away from WCW for almost a year.

Luger's win was seen as one of the greatest moments in Nitro history, as it was the night that WCW's world title was taken back by the superstars of WCW from this growing group known as the New World Order.

At Road Wild, a world title without graffiti was won by Hogan and the nWo letters were sprayed back onto it. Hogan would hold that title until Starrcade in December, when Sting would win the title and then see it be held up by WCW management. Still, it brought us into 1998, when some distance was seen between the growing members of the nWo.

By the end of 1997 and beginning of 1998, the nWo lost momentum across the board. It tried to invade Nitro and have an episode of nWo Nitro. The ratings were awful and the angle was dropped. The company also stopped giving nWo its own pay-per-views. This was all before the nWo broke into multiple groups.

The nWo last appeared on WWE programming in 2002. Mr. McMahon would appear on an episode of Raw entering to nWo music and saying that the fans would never hear that music ever again. The nWo was dead that night, ironically ending on the night that Eric Bischoff became the general manager of Raw.

The intention of the nWo appeared on TNA programming as The Band, but that didn't last long, nor was it allowed to use the actual name of the New World Order.

WWE owns the rights to the name of nWo, so it won't pop up anywhere but there. Recent tweets from former nWo member Kevin Nash have a lot of people buzzing about a reunion of the nWo including current WWE champion CM Punk.

Can people not see when a former pro wrestler who is 50-something is trying to pull a fast one on fans? In the article that I linked to above, almost 58 percent of readers who voted in the poll thought that the New World Order would return.

Come on, guys.

If it doesn't include a good influence from the original three superstars, it isn't even worth it. Hogan would have to be separated from TNA to be seen on WWE again. Would anyone wish to really try and see Scott Hall in a ring again?

As for Nash, who made these claims to fans, he would then be teaming with Punk, who he cost a WWE Championship last year at SummerSlam. To justify Nash going from harming Punk to helping Punk in the course of one year is very hard to do. The logic just isn't there and a tweener Punk doesn't need a bunch of over-the-hill superstars to latch onto him just to bring back a faction that belongs in the past.

Face facts, if you please. The New World Order will not, or at least should not, return to WWE. For a group of fans that wish to see something new, clamoring for nWo to reunite is just odd.

The difference between that and the DX reunion at Raw 1,000 is that DX never competed, only leading the show off to dress in camouflage and joke around before beating up Damien Sandow.

So, I'm sorry to let down Kevin Nash. The New World Order is over. Stick to making movies like Rock of Ages. Should you wish to reunite the cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, go ahead. Though, judging from the end of this clip, even the turtles don't want to see The Shredder return.

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