Scott Hall wrote:Pharaoh wrote:Yes, things change in a major way if Sting essentially squashes Hogan in 97.
It begins the fracture of the NWO as Hall was next in line for a shot at the time. Think it was going to be the Feb PPV main event.
So the Jan PPV sees Sting beat Hogan in the rematch.
Feb PPV Hall should lose after Hogan's interference backfires.
This puts Hall & Nash against Hogan & someone (Steiner?) as the NWO splits apart.
Sting moves on to matches against Bret Hart, the NWO isn't run into the ground and a whole load of things are different.
But we got Hogan whining cause Sting wasn't in shape or tanned enough and Bischoff has eluded to some other personal issue Sting had at the time.
Anyway, we got what we got. And it wasn't the ending we should have got
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- Sting beat Hogan in the rematch at SuperBrawl which was the February PPV
- The nWo started fracturing 4 months after and the Wolf Pack was one of the most over factions in history
- Hogan never said anything about the match Bischoff did and Sting admitted it
Was I fan of that match? no
Do I get what they were doing from a business and storyline stand point? yes
Was Scott Hall in line for a World Tittle push after? maybe? I honestly can't remember but keep in mind the
meteoric rise of Goldberg during this time period. His debut match was in September 1997 on Nitro and he
got so over they had to put the belt on him by early July 1998 after beating Scott Hall and squashing Hogan
clean. So he most likely affected long term booking plans.
I said that I felt like the real mistake was the aftermath of the seeds they planted during that match going to waste
but after looking it up WCW's highest ratings period was the 3-4 months after that match and 3 of their top 10 PPV
Buyrates were the 3 PPVs that followed Starrcade 1997 so obviously that match had no negative affect at all.
Let's face it there is a lot of Hogan haters out there that think they know everything and act like they were in the
locker room. It's a bunch of smarks with an agenda that read stuff on the internet that take some of this folklore
and run with it to fit their narrative.
I don't know who even started this was it Meltzer? or Bret Hart still complaining about Wrestlemania 9? It's
funny to me that the guy who made Wrestling and is the biggest draw ever (maybe Austin?) gets crapped on
like he's some cancer who held everybody down yet I hear all these guys in their HOF speeches from DDP, Harlem Heat,
Goldberg, Honky Tonk Man etc etc acknowledge him for helping their careers.
You never hear the 90% of the good things this guy did for the industry it's the 10% supposed bad stuff he did that
these Internet Wrestling Geeks constantly bring up and take for gospel to fit their narrative.
Personally I think Nash becoming the head booker was the real problem and WCW panicked with WWF starting
to breathe down their neck as they started doing hot shot booking and would book these awesome main events
on paper that would constantly end in DQ finishes that went nowhere.
To me the real nail in the coffin or the beginning of the end was the Starrcade 1998 main event with Nash vs.
Goldberg and the streak ending with Scott Hall using the taser lol. Then a week later the Finger Point of Doom
which I was kind of meh about but acknowledge that everybody seemed to hate it.
