WCW were ready to have the Avengers before the Avengers.
According to Vince Russo on Wrestling Binge, the WCW Avengers concept was inspired by the popular Marvel Comics superhero team, the Avengers. Hogan was set to play the leader of the group, with other wrestlers filling out the roster. However, the storyline was never fully realized, much to the frustration of Russo and the creative team.
“Bro, I swear to God, we did this thing in WCW. We never got to tell the whole story due to politics. But what I first tried to do when I went to WCW is – we were eliminating the legends, one by one. All of them with a different story. Because the endgame was gonna be that these guys were gonna get back together, almost like the Avengers before there was an Avengers,”
“So we eliminated Hulk (Hogan), we eliminated Savage (Randy), we were trying to eliminate Hennig (Curt). We eliminated Piper (Roddy). These guys were gonna come back as Avengers because the interesting dynamic is these guys haven’t gotten along throughout their careers, they are gonna get along now? That was the beauty, there was so much meat to that story.”
Vince Russo on Wrestling Binge
While the WCW Avengers storyline was ultimately scrapped, Hogan remained a prominent figure in WCW until the company was purchased by the WWF (now WWE) in 2001.
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