[1997-02-17-WCW-Nitro] NWO chase the Steiners

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

The NWO supply this footage to prove that they aren't responsible for the Steiners car accident everyone is talking about. Hall, Nash and Syxx stalk the Steiners at a gas station, try to run them off the road, they end up distracted and the car flips! I always hated this angle, because that's criminal behavior and I think it's stretching things to say that the Steiners would want to just settle this in the ring.

[Zenjo]

They'd probably just hired someone in Creative who was used to working in Hollywood and this was his most sensible suggestion. Ideas in wrestling need to have at least a loose connection to reality.

[soup23]

This seemed like it wanted to again take a memphis trope and amp it up. I will say the editing job on the footage is well produced as we get a closeup of Ricks face right before the car flips.

[stomperspc]

I agree that this probably went over the line from acceptable pro wrestling violence that can be solved in the ring to downright criminal activity. I did think Hall and Nash did a good job selling the seriousness of the situation when they saw the car flip over. Their tones immediately changed from flippant to serious as they scurried to drive away.

[ajtroma]

Why they would deliberately give the tape of this to run on live tv is one that I never could wrap my head around.

[Kevin Ridge]

This feels incredibly dangerous with them doing these stunts while driving. Not the smartest idea for NWO to be taping themselves being involved in this incident.

[El-P]

I thought it was really well done and produced. Found footage segment ! But yeah, it goes a little bit too far off wrestling for me too. "You drove us off the road and nearly killed us, we're going to beat you in a wrestling match." Ok, it was an accident, but it was still the Outsiders fault.

[PeteF3]

This is technically executed well but is just way too ridiculous as a wrestling angle. There were issues with the follow-up to the Gilbert-Lawler car angle but that was set up very organically and came off realistic. And AJ's question is a sound one, especially considering how quick they were to tell Syxx to shut the camera off.

[raul]

one of the funniest segments i've ever seen

[KB8]

This was obviously too daft, with too many plot holes even for pro-wrestling, to be anything more than dumb fun, but dumb fun it was. Production on it was clearly really well done too. 

[dawho5]

This made no sense at all.  Wouldn't you destroy that tape???