Blue Meanie Shares Stories Of nWo Members’ Reactions To bWo Parody

On a recent In Depth interview, ECW’s Blue Meanie shared his history with the parody stable Blue World Order, conceived as a reaction to the massively impactful nWo faction (per Wrestling Inc. Members of bWo crafted their personas as referential comedy homages to individuals like Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan, much to the originals’ amusement. You can read a few highlights from Meanie regarding the execution of the gag below.

On the initial development of the concept: “There was a little bit of hesitation on Stevie [Richards]’s part because he was afraid that doing a parody of guys who had that much political power would kind of hinder us a little bit. Raven’s like, ‘Look, I’m cool with them, don’t worry about it. Just do it, all right?’ And we’re like, ‘All right, we trust you, and then it just became a matter of who’s gonna be who.”

On the nWo’s reaction to the joke: “And Nash was super cool about it, and then later on, I’d hear from Hogan that he loved it. Like they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and we never did it with any malice.”