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The Blue World Order (bWo) was a stable formed at ECW's November to Remember 1996 event at the ECW Arena, the stable lasted until August 1998 and briefly in the WWE throughout the summer of 2005.

Contents 1 Extreme Championship Wrestling 2 World Wrestling Entertainment 3 Members 4 Signature Moves 5 Theme Song 6 Quotes

Since July 1995, Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie had been making parodies of various wrestlers from the WWF and WCW. In early 1996 Raven was forming a stable called Raven's Nest, and was gathering new members to be lacky's. He called upon Stevie and Meanie along with an independent performer from New Jersey Nova. These three would oftem come to the ring together before Raven would make his entrance normally imitating rock bands or pop culture references, most notably The Jackson 5 and at ECW The Doctor is In in August 1996 as the rock band KISS. The latter of which received a great ovation from the hardcore ECW fans before The Sandman abruptly entered the ring and caned them. Backstage, after this parody Buh Buh Ray Dudley told them how great that was and that the only thing greater than that would be a parody of the nWo. After clearing things with Paul Heyman and Raven, it was decided for them to be the bWo at the next big event which was November to Remember '96. Over the next few years members were added and members left just like the group they were imitating. The height of the bWo's success came at the very first ECW pay per view Barely Legal, in which Big Stevie Cool was part of the 3 way dance main event for the #1 contendership for the ECW World Title. Just weeks after this event Richards suffered a "severe" neck injury and announced his retirement, the legitimacy of this injury has been rumored to be a complete work, or perhaps a mockery of Shawn Michaels knee injury segments in the WWF at that time, whichever it may have been not to long thereafter Richards left for the WCW, and the bWo soon faded as well. In August of 1998, Nova had a match against Taz in which Taz vowed to kill the bWo. He absolutely squashed Nova, and although Meanie and Nova continued to tag over the next few months, the bWo was indeed dead.

The bWo reunited in 2005 at World Wrestling Entertainment's ECW reunion show, ECW One Night Stand 2005, coming to the ring before the Dudley Boyz versus Tommy Dreamer & The Sandman match. During their entrance, Joey Styles (laughing hysterically once they entered) said that "If any gimmick never deserved to make a dime and made a boatload of cash, this is it! The best part about the bWo is that [WCW] couldn't sue us for it, since it was a parody!"

On July 7, 2005, the bWo reunited once again this time to confront John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) since JBL sought out The Blue Meanie and punched him repeatedly "shoot" style after The Blue Meanie called JBL a "Backstage Bully", causing Meanie to tear some recent stitches and bleed at ECW One Night Stand 2005. JBL taunted the bWo and called Blue Meanie a "fat little bitch" (This seemed to be a shoot. Blue Meanie was visibly angry and was held back by Steven Richards to prevent a real fight between the two). This led to a Blue Meanie vs. JBL match which Blue Meanie won when Batista ran in and gave a spinebuster to JBL and threw an out-of-it Meanie on top of JBL. Stevie Richards delivered a nasty chairshot to JBL during the match that appeared to bust JBL open the hard way.

Later, the bWo challenged The Mexicools to a match at the 2005 WWE pay per view The Great American Bash, with Stevie Richards saying the bWo was tired of the Mexicools interfering in people's matches, saying they were going to take over and rise up against the gringos because "We invented that!" - Which then prompted Hollywood Nova to say "Actually, we never said we were going to rise up against the gringos". The 3 members appeared on WWE Velocity in a six-man tag match against 3 jobbers to prepare themselves for their tag match against the Mexicools. At the Great American Bash, the bWo and Mexicools met in a six-man tag match. They even drove into the ring on Big Wheels to parody the Mexicools' usual ring entrance on John Deere lawnmowers. The bWo lost the match, however, when Super Crazy hit a moonsault and Psicosis hit the guillotine legdrop on Big Stevie Cool for the win.

As the month of July ended, the bWo faded from the scene. Stevie Richards went back to his old gimmick, as did Hollywood Nova (Simon Dean), while Blue Meanie was never officially contracted by WWE.

Steven Richards now occasionally appears on the newly resurrected ECW and Simon Dean (Mike Bucci) is now the head of WWE Developmental, replacing John Laurinatis.

• Stevie Richards who was "Big Stevie Cool" (parody of Kevin Nash)
• Nova who was "Hollywood Nova" (parody of Hulk Hogan)
• The Blue Meanie who was "Da Blue Guy" (parody of Scott Hall)
• bWo Japan (Kaientai DX): Dick Togo, Men's Teioh, TAKA Michinoku (parody of nWo Japan)
• Chastity
• Thomas "the Inchworm" Rodman (parody of Dennis Rodman)
• Rob Feinstein who was "7-11" (parody of Syxx-Pac)

• Blue Light Special (Sitdown wheelbarrow facebuster/DDT combination)
• Stevie-T (Implant double underhook DDT) - Stevie
• Stevie Kick (Superkick) - Stevie
• Stevie Bomb (Jackknife powerbomb)- Stevie (used as a parody of Kevin Nash)
• Meanie-sault (Moonsault) - Blue Meanie
• Atomic Leg Drop (Leg Drop) - Nova (Used to parody Hulk Hogan)
• Kryptonite Krunch - Nova
• Cool Blue Slam (Sidewalk slam) - Stevie (As Richards was parodying Nash, he called Nash's sidewalk slam the Emerald City Slam, referencing Kevin Nash's failed Oz persona in WCW some years earlier.)
• Snake Eyes (see above, but instead, it's based on Nash's failed Vinnie Vegas persona)
• Parodies of various attacks and taunts used by "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan - Nova

The bWo theme [1] was an instrumental rock song that became very popular with professional wrestling fans around the world, written and performed by Philadelphia rock group Swamp Candles.

• Da Blue Guy: "Say hello to Da Blue Guy!"
• Big Stevie Cool: "Now I'd like to start out with three simple words; We're taking over!"
• Hollywood Nova: "Whatcha gonna do daddy, when the bWo rumbles on you?"