Larry Zbyszko On His Involvement In the Early Booking Of the nWo

Larry Zbyszko had an impact on the early booking of the nWo in WCW, and he recently talked about first naming the group and more. Eric Bischoff has never been shy about giving credit to Zybysko for helping to lay out plans for the group, recalling back in a June 2021 episode of 83 Weeks that the “Living Legend” first used the nWo name for the stable. Zybysko talked about his early involvement with the group during a virtual signing for Captain’s Corner on Facebook.

“Even Scott Hall said it when he was always interviewed a lot but I’m the guy that programmed the New World Order,” Zbyszko said (per Wrestling Inc). “I actually named the New World Order, not officially, but I was using it and stuff, and Eric heard the New World Order and it got in his mind and he decided, ‘This is the name for the thing,’ but I’m the one that programmed it — the way Scott Hall came in, the way it started and happened. If you start something off right, it gets the most emotion it can. If you start it dumb, you don’t get as much out of it for the fans.”

He continued, “Eric did a hell of a job. I mean, he did a great job and got heat, and in a time you didn’t have the dirt sheets and all the blabbers and all this and that, people were diving over the security rails trying to punch Eric out. He got real heat and he did a hell of a job, and the secret was he was a smart guy, smart enough to listen to me.”