


The nWo, one of the most discussed and well-documented subjects in pro wrestling history, is getting a fresh perspective.
Marc Raimondi, the former New York Post writer and current Falcons beat reporter for ESPN, is taking at look at WCW’s famed faction through a pop culture lens in his upcoming book “Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Professional Wrestling’s New World Order Changed America,” which is available for pre-order and in stores June 24.
Raimondi, who has been a close friend for more than 20 years, delivers one of the most in-depth, easy-to-follow and well-reported accounts of how nWo worked by reflecting on the cultural shifts during that time in our country’s history — feeding off and then feeding into pop culture — and ultimately failed. The book is written almost like it’s made for TV, with little cliffhangers here and there.
Wrestling’s New World Order Changed America.”
In the book, he compares Crow Sting’s popularity in the context of someone a castout youngster of the ’90s could relate to, like Kurt Cobain and Marilyn Manson, as he rebels against the high school bullies of the nWo within the story.