It looked even better when he did the chair thingy to Matt Hardy though.
Andddddd 1)Vince usually doesn't know what he's doing, I wouldn't just assume so but...
2)He's playing this particular angle to perfection.
Sure, I would have loved to see Nash or Hall show up on Raw, but this is a lot better than that. Nobody gace a damn about nWo before yesterday's Raw... Pretty much EVERYONE on the internet wasn't interested, not the fans, not the "insiders" like Meltzer, not very many people. Sure, the ratings were bound to go up a bit, and people did make sure to see Raw and whatnot because seeing Nash or Hall on TV again would just be a site to see whether you liked them or not. But there wasn't much story, and although some, not enough interest. Ratings show that more people have tunied into Smackdown and Raw than usual, so why bring nWo in now when you're getting the anticipation ratings already? It was only the last show (I won't refer to Sunday Night Heat, Jakked, Metal, or Exess as a "show" in this post...) that this nWo angle even started.
This is supposed to be one of-if not THE-biggest angle in WWF history. And it could be. They shouldn't just milk it as much as they could, they should let it progress for what is good money as well as great for the fans. Lots of the WWF fans don't even know who the nWo are. Some are just WWF marks who wouldn't know, some are too young to know, and some have just started watching wrestling. They should make these people aware of who the nWo are and why they're such a threat to the WWF. They have to make it seem like they're a legit threat, something they didn't do for WCW in the first "Invasion" and look how that piece of **** turned out. The King and JR really played up nWo as a group who can kill the WWF. Ric Flair really played that up, too. Vince McMahon did.
The whole Ric Flair/Vince promo on Raw single handedly made people care about this nWo angle, and had nWo showed up yesterday, we probably wouldn't have seen this. By showing that sweet ass video, and reminding us and Vince of all that Vince did for his company, and Vince STILL saying he'd bring in the nWo if Flair didn't leave really makes you think that nWo is that damn important. It also gace the WWF the opportunity to show that the nWo (during the video it showed this) was so deadly in WCW, and was the reason WCW beat WWF in ratings for so long.
Anyhoo, there are already vignettes including Hogan, Hall, and Nash that are supposed to be aired every week until NWO 2K, and one's even out on the internet. They're building this up, and that's the right way to go. I dunno about you guys, but I know that I wanna watch every single wrestling show (like always, but for a diffeent reason) because I WANT more. I WANT to see what happens next, and that's great booking by WWF I must admit.
That's my opinion, and I think so far WWF is doing a perfect job on this angle, something they rarely do. Imagine if nWo would have showed up on Raw... There would have been ZERO days of build-up, lots of people wouldn't have a clue what was going on, we wouldn't be waiting in as much anticipation as now, and we wouldn't have seen that great video.
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