McMahon killed WCW when he bought it from Time-Warner and retired the brand. Had Bischoff been able to buy the company WCW would still exist. Thanks a lot Vince "Piece of Shit" McMahon!
@dsfddsgh Stop drinking McMahon's cool aid. Hogan is the reason WCW lasted as long as it did. Had Hogan not graced WCW with his presence they would've went bankrupt instead of being sold to the highest bidder. A bankrupt company isn't worth anything. Think for yourself and don't just take McMahon's word for it.
@donn409 I don't need to take McMahon's word on it. All i know is Hogan always was using his creative control to get himself over. Like at Starcade 1997 he didn't want to lose to Sting cleanly and so he screwed up a storyline that was over a year in the making. Or how about the Fingerpoke of death which was about the last straw that people had with Hogan and WCW. It was always about Hogan.
@dsfddsgh Stop lying you piece of fucking shit. Hogan always did good by Sting. As far as the finger poke of doom goes I find it funny you never mention the fact that Nash just handed the world title to Flair giving him his 16th world title. That was bogus to but no, just because it was Flair people like you over fucking look it.
@donn409 Hogan screwed WCW. Just look how he screwed Sting at Starcade 1997 because of his preciouis creative control and the fact that he didn't want to lose cleanly and put Sting over. Hogan fucked up a storyline that was over a year in the making. Or how about the Fingerpoke of Doom which just about doomed WCW. WCW was never the same after that.
@donn409 When hogan joined wcw he enablede them to became a competitor with WWF i'm starting to think a lot of you must have watched the WWE video on the fall of wcw. I actually watched WCW week to week fucking noobs.
@hardcase678 Hogan carried both the WWE and WCW. He would have carried the AWA and the IWGP but he stood to make the hugest impact in the WWE and the WCW, so that's where he spent most of his career.
Sting was the ultimate face wrestler ever during this time period. He didn't have to rap. He didn't have to dress funny. He didn't have to have a cheesy gimmick. He just had to be STING!
0:42 a smug Brett Hart and Sting on top of the entrance getting ready to come in on a zip line and kick Hogan's ass. This might be the most bad ass thing I have ever seen in WCW. Still doesn't beat a single Stone Cold Stunner.
@genosynca He overreacts to comical proportions, but really...how could any wrestler open a box, find a paper machete head of himself inside, and legitimately convince people that he is frightened by it? "Oh my God, I've been in the business over a dozen years, I've had 500 pound giant men try to kill me in the ring and I've been assaulted with steel chairs and baseball bats... but I've always kept my cool until this quasi-realistic facsimile of my head caused me to tremble & piss my pants!" WCW
0:16 LMAO at Hogans cartoon reaction. He acted like Wolf when every time Droopy appears. Ow wait weren't TNT and Cartoon Network were together back then?
@greenrangerv1 Yeah, it's sad. nWo got really old after awhile. It became overblown and overly-large. And people began to love WWF Attitude, ECW to a lesser extent. Then ECW fell apart. WWF bought them both. The inVasion happened. Which could have been so much better if Vince didn't wish to stroke his ego. WCW and ECW had enough stars to look credible. Instead Austin and Angle jumped the fence, and WWF looked stronger at ever PPV, every RAW is WAR, every Smackdown. Sheesh.
@greenrangerv1 Actually makes me wonder. What if WCW had never gone to the dogs? What if it had stayed competitive against WWF? Against WWE to this day. Would both companies benefit? Would we have seen the emergence of CM Punk years ago? Would John Cena be a better wrestler? Would we have a true successor to Sting or Kurt Angle or Shawn Michaels? Steve Austin? Rock? Benoit? Jericho? Eddie? Would Smackdown still have strong enough ratings for a "real" channel? As in something other than Sci-Fi?
the idea behind this angle was actually good, but Hogan's horrible acting and a crazy broadcast decision to cut the show off in the very moment Sting came on the ring turned everything into shit.
wcw always ended the show at stupid times, sometimes it would even be in the middle of a match, who ever did the directing was an idiot who couldn't keep track of time
The problem was with Hogan, and that is why I don't respect him. Had sting beat Hogan at Starcarde 97 the NWO would have been finished, but Hogan played the political card of me me and me, and no the business. Hogan never put the business first. The controversial finish at starcarde was to extend the NWO angle for at least one more year.I thought Bishoff was smart and understood that wrestling angle or storyline can't last for a long time.
@carl2680 they dont decide who wins. Eric Bishoff isnt really the manager, just like Obama, the lizard-men illuminati decide what happens in the media LOL (im joking) :D
@MexicanKukyMonster I think the NWO angle in wrestling was a ploy by the elite letting the public know you can't never win the battle against us.. I think the whole NWO angle didn't come from Bischoff office, but it was Turner idea, and the controllers on top.
Had Bret came in back in 1996 when he and Eric first had talks, his arrival would have been cooler. Instead of bringing in so many guys to the nWo, they should have kept it ONLY former WWF guys. Hogan, Hall, Nash, DiBiase, and then bring in Bret Hart as the US Champ. I also feel that Piper and Savage should have been nWo from the start. Both were better as heels. The ULTIMATE swerve would have been for Warrior to turn heel and join them, leading to a dream match between Sting and Warrior.
I myself am very partial to this since it was the ERA of Sting since he is my favorite of all time and loved him kickin Hogan's azz one of many great videos I watch from time to time to remember how I felt when I was wrapped up in WCW......
That's Nitro right there! They would be very unpredictable in the end of the show and would literally force you to come back to your tv the week after!
I see your point. I just think they were good at building up but not delivering in the end. As this whole buildup to Sting vs. Hogan at Starrcade 1997 proved to be. That was one of their many downfalls. That match was mediocre at best and they couldn't write it to have Sting beat Hogan cleanly and ending the nWo gimmick at least for a while. Instead of making the next Nitro a celebration we were fed crap. I hate living in the past but I used to love WCW.
Supposedly, after Sting flew in on the zip-line, the fans there at the arena were treated to an un-televised match between Sting and Scott Hall. Hogan was said to have interfered and suffered the Stinger Splash for his trouble. Sting then pinned Hall with the Scorpion Death Drop.
I've only read it from one source, so I don't know if it's true or not. It sounds to me like it would have been an awesome show if it was.
@BlueSkyeReynolds I would believe that for sure. It was the Nitro right before Starrcade 1997 so they were really building it up. Everything was clicking. They didn't really start f'ing things up for themselves until after that PPV. If Hogan had lost cleanly to Sting and had Sting been able to roll with Belt for a while, we might not be having this conversation. They could have even brought up Goldberg against Sting and had Goldberg be the next big villain. Wishful thinking.
@bobolob I believe wholeheartedly that match was WCW's undoing. Sting drew ovations like no one else by just showing up. Yet, after a year and a half of everyone waiting for Sting to defeat Hogan, they stopped his momentum cold with a bland match and a tainted title victory. To add insult, they stripped him of the belt, made him win it again, stuck him with a short reign, and then handed it back to Hogan. It's like they acknowledged that it had all been to sell that one event and nothing more.
@bobolob Basically, I think WCW forgot that the nWo was supposed to represent the WWF and that Sting defeating them meant him becoming the biggest star in professional wrestling. His self-destruction pretty much handed the spotlight over to Steve Austin and the WWF.
"Sting wasn't the champion we were waiting for after all. Austin, it's your show now."
@BlueSkyeReynolds It certainly worked as it was the highest ppv buy rate WCW had ever had and might have been the highest PPV buyrate of all time at the point. I could be wrong about that last part. Everything you wrote is absolutely right. Not letting Sting beat Hogan cleanly was the end of it and left a lot of sour fans. So simple a concept and they screwed it up. Stupid Bischoff and Hogan and whoever else was in charge.1998 was still a good year for WCW but was much better ayear for the WWF.
@bobolob I've read that as well, but it reflects more on the build up than the event itself. But yeah, they dropped the ball. Sting had to win the belt twice, neither win was clean, and the title reign only lasted two months. Sting's popularity was in the stratosphere and they brought him back down to earth fast. I don't care how much money it meant they had to throw at him, that was the one time they really need Hogan to lose cleanly. That could have meant victory in the Monday Night Wars.
@BlueSkyeReynolds It would have still probably have been less money than Hall, Nash, & Hogan were getting. And even if it wasn't that would have been the perfect reason to dish out the dough. That match itself didn't even have to be that good, and it was pretty bad from memory, all Sting had to do was beat Hogan decisively making way for the next big thing. Hell, Bret Hart could have been the first big opponent for Sting then eventually Goldberg could step into the picture and even Hogan later.
@bobolob Bischoff, actually, agreed with the fans and Sting in that Sting should have cleanly won. Hogan's creative control came into play and the ending with a fast count and Bret Hart restarting the match came up. Ref Mitch Patrick completely killed this though by counting normal speed. Hogan pinned Sting, cleanly. THAT is what killed this. But you are right, they never recovered with Sting's character after this. He spent the rest of his career trying to duplicate the 1996/1997 period.
@nWo24life Yea, you're absolutely right. Nick Patrick didn't make the fast count. They were trying to play over the fact that Bret new what it was like to be screwed over by a ref and such. And thus began the demise of WCW from the inside out. Slowly at first like a parasite then by 1998's Starrcade that was basically the last straw and things started falling apart at light speed by 1999.
If you liked WCW, you should watch TNA, BROTHER! Hogan is there, Bischoff is there, Sting, Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall! And on March 8th, BROTHER, TNA will be starting going on Monday Nights head-to-head with raw, LIVE, dude. Thats on SPIKE TV 9PM! The main event for the March 8th Live TNA iMPACT! show is, Hulkh Hogan and Abyss VS. Ric Flair and AJ Styles (TNA World Champion)!
Hell, it probably set the whole thing up. I hear it had more stroke than 98% of the locker room. It held a lot of people down for that waste of time segment.
Nope. This episode aired 2 yrs. after Se7en came out. I wonder if they borrow the head idea from WWE. When Bret was still a face in WWE, he has a short feud with this Japanese wrestler that Japanese letters all over his body & face. One time, the guy was holding a fake head of Bret. Just like Bret (or Sting) offering Hogan a fake head of himself.
There is also a PPV poster from Badd Blood 1997 where Undertaker holds up something that is obviously a fake Shawn Michaels head by the hairs, in something that I guess is supposed to be an intimidating manner. But for some reason Undertaker's face was badly photoshopped over the fake head. Looks marvelous:)
Thanks!! I have trouble remebering the spelling of his name, but I do remeber it start with an "H". I always assume it was Heirchi or something, but then I'm terrible with spelling Japanese names. :P
@fallguye6011 WCW at it's peak in 1997 was better than any wrestling company ever. You had the greatest story arc ever of Sting vs the nWo and you had easily the greatest (american) undercard.
@Anglefan12 I agree with you completely. I think it was great how the WCW events had AMAZING undercard/mid-card matches featuring guys like Chris Jericho, DDP, Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero, etc. Then you had legends like Hogan, Flair, Sting, Hall, Nash, Piper, Anderson. Even though they came in later, guys like Bret Hart, The Warrior, Goldberg, and Sid Vicious were great additions had AOL/Time Warner let Bischoff run his company like he had been doing leading up to the merger. Best roster ever.
man i forgot how awesome wcw was back in the day. the stuff with sting, hogan etc is like something straight from a comic book lol. even the best of wwfs attitude era wasnt as good as wcw around this time.
Remember the days when WCW/WWF could build towards epic matches?
Sting/Hogan (despite the match being completely botched) was built up over a year to the point where if you were a wrestling fan you'd of been crazy to miss their match up.
Today's wrestling is not even at the toe of what WCW was. Fight scenes and stunts have indeed advanced since then, but now there is little acting or stories or themes.
I remember when I was a boy the enthusiasm of watching this on TNT. It was great and I loved it every time.
But now watching WWE or TNA isnt like watching WCW was.
Modern wrestling companies should understand that ppl also want a developed story behind the stunts. No story = no heart, no soul!
I totally agree darkdanu89. I was in my teens when all of this happened and I made sure to never miss a show and I loved every minute of it. There is no comparison between WCW and the wrestling of today. It's a shame really.
@darkdanu89 the best thing we can all do is give TNA a chance. TNA is making strives to becoming a good product, but isn't quite there yet. theres a LOT of talent, and now we just need good teamwork amongst the creative staff. if we ever want a major competitor to WWE, we need to get behind TNA.
@darkdanu89 Dude. THIS is what WCW was. It's a good thing wrestling isn't like this anymore, because this, my friend, is terrible. It's childish, and not in a charming, entertaining way. It's childish in a reach-into-the-back-of-your-pants-and-pull-out-a-brown-hand-to-smear-the-walls-with-it kind of way. It's stupid, horribly executed amateur bullcrap.
Oh, and TNA is very much like this, you should go check it out. You'll probably love it now.
@malbecks316 a good thing wrestling isn't like this anymore? so not providing a competitive product that brings in 4 and 5 ratings? wrestling is different indeed to day, but in a bad way...people tend to dislike it strongly these days! the late 90's were a golden era.
@tna19931 What's your point? TNA sure isn't providing such an alternative, all they are doing is trying their damnedest to rehash latter-day WCW-mistakes while hoping that repeating "We are the alternative to WWE" will somehow make them the alternative to WWE.
And the reason why they fail is because they do shit like the above, only on a slightly smaller budget and with even less competence.
i think they should have stretched out the part where Hogan was reacting to finding his head in a box. It could have been an interesting moment to explore the character of Hollywood Hulk Hogan, if only they held the camera on his reaction a little longer...
McMahon killed WCW when he bought it from Time-Warner and retired the brand. Had Bischoff been able to buy the company WCW would still exist. Thanks a lot Vince "Piece of Shit" McMahon!
donn409 1 month ago
@donn409 Are you kidding? Bishoff is the one who brought WCW down in the first place by constantly putting Hogan over over more deserving wrestlers.
dsfddsgh 1 week ago
@dsfddsgh Stop drinking McMahon's cool aid. Hogan is the reason WCW lasted as long as it did. Had Hogan not graced WCW with his presence they would've went bankrupt instead of being sold to the highest bidder. A bankrupt company isn't worth anything. Think for yourself and don't just take McMahon's word for it.
donn409 1 week ago
@donn409 I don't need to take McMahon's word on it. All i know is Hogan always was using his creative control to get himself over. Like at Starcade 1997 he didn't want to lose to Sting cleanly and so he screwed up a storyline that was over a year in the making. Or how about the Fingerpoke of death which was about the last straw that people had with Hogan and WCW. It was always about Hogan.
dsfddsgh 1 week ago
@dsfddsgh Stop lying you piece of fucking shit. Hogan always did good by Sting. As far as the finger poke of doom goes I find it funny you never mention the fact that Nash just handed the world title to Flair giving him his 16th world title. That was bogus to but no, just because it was Flair people like you over fucking look it.
donn409 1 week ago
@donn409 Hogan screwed WCW. Just look how he screwed Sting at Starcade 1997 because of his preciouis creative control and the fact that he didn't want to lose cleanly and put Sting over. Hogan fucked up a storyline that was over a year in the making. Or how about the Fingerpoke of Doom which just about doomed WCW. WCW was never the same after that.
dsfddsgh 1 week ago
@donn409 When hogan joined wcw he enablede them to became a competitor with WWF i'm starting to think a lot of you must have watched the WWE video on the fall of wcw. I actually watched WCW week to week fucking noobs.
hardcase678 6 days ago
@hardcase678 Hogan carried both the WWE and WCW. He would have carried the AWA and the IWGP but he stood to make the hugest impact in the WWE and the WCW, so that's where he spent most of his career.
donn409 5 days ago
I really thoight Hulk head in the box was the real thing
countbloodula 1 month ago
Sting was the ultimate face wrestler ever during this time period. He didn't have to rap. He didn't have to dress funny. He didn't have to have a cheesy gimmick. He just had to be STING!
doctorken2k 1 month ago 2
@doctorken2k SO sting dressing like the fucking crow isn't dressing funny? You sir have a weird ideology.
hardcase678 6 days ago
@hardcase678 In the 90s, that was the theme of the time. Wearing black, being goth, and other things.
doctorken2k 5 days ago
wad did i tell u????????
DiabloMercy 2 months ago
Yeah. i remember this.
jtomally9681 2 months ago
classic
youngTaharka 2 months ago
Yeah this isn't anything compared to Undertaker producing full sized realistic replicas of Diesel and the Ortons.
Lestialdemon 3 months ago
nice head
brotherdrift 3 months ago
Hogans Glasses are EPIC. Hilarious!
turbo6186 4 months ago
Badasssssss
OgnarPliskin 4 months ago
0:42 a smug Brett Hart and Sting on top of the entrance getting ready to come in on a zip line and kick Hogan's ass. This might be the most bad ass thing I have ever seen in WCW. Still doesn't beat a single Stone Cold Stunner.
joekoe97 5 months ago
what a bad acting job i laughed at :26 hes soo bad at acting scared
tobinbryan 5 months ago 15
epic moment, hogan is such a shit actor though.
genosynca 5 months ago
@genosynca He overreacts to comical proportions, but really...how could any wrestler open a box, find a paper machete head of himself inside, and legitimately convince people that he is frightened by it? "Oh my God, I've been in the business over a dozen years, I've had 500 pound giant men try to kill me in the ring and I've been assaulted with steel chairs and baseball bats... but I've always kept my cool until this quasi-realistic facsimile of my head caused me to tremble & piss my pants!" WCW
MalnourishedGoat 5 months ago 3
@MalnourishedGoat Hogan should have watched Waltz from the movie the Godfather. Same concept but in the movie he sold it like no other could.
latinostvmundial 2 months ago
Hogan gets head?
reivenlocke 6 months ago 3
0:16 LMAO at Hogans cartoon reaction. He acted like Wolf when every time Droopy appears. Ow wait weren't TNT and Cartoon Network were together back then?
MyTubeVersion3 6 months ago 3
NWO was the end of WCW, sad to say.
XiuTheFeared 6 months ago
@XiuTheFeared Yeah, so sad that because of the nWo angle, WCW beat WWF in the ratings for two years. Very sad indeed....
greenrangerv1 6 months ago
@greenrangerv1 Yeah, it's sad. nWo got really old after awhile. It became overblown and overly-large. And people began to love WWF Attitude, ECW to a lesser extent. Then ECW fell apart. WWF bought them both. The inVasion happened. Which could have been so much better if Vince didn't wish to stroke his ego. WCW and ECW had enough stars to look credible. Instead Austin and Angle jumped the fence, and WWF looked stronger at ever PPV, every RAW is WAR, every Smackdown. Sheesh.
sbrooks187 5 months ago
@greenrangerv1 Actually makes me wonder. What if WCW had never gone to the dogs? What if it had stayed competitive against WWF? Against WWE to this day. Would both companies benefit? Would we have seen the emergence of CM Punk years ago? Would John Cena be a better wrestler? Would we have a true successor to Sting or Kurt Angle or Shawn Michaels? Steve Austin? Rock? Benoit? Jericho? Eddie? Would Smackdown still have strong enough ratings for a "real" channel? As in something other than Sci-Fi?
sbrooks187 5 months ago
It's my head in a box!!!
robbchr 6 months ago
Horrible acting by hogan... wen some one afraid of some thing they won't hold them..
ganeshjuly 7 months ago
@ganeshjuly Hogan sometimes overacts on purpose. I've heard rumors that he does that for things he thinks are a little ridiculous.
joekoe97 7 months ago
Did Hogan just realized how ugly and old he is?
BigCruncca 7 months ago
I Was At The Macon Coliseum When That Took Place! It Was Too Awesome!
terrill415 7 months ago
Hogan is the worst actor ive ever seen, lol.
rprshadow 7 months ago
the idea behind this angle was actually good, but Hogan's horrible acting and a crazy broadcast decision to cut the show off in the very moment Sting came on the ring turned everything into shit.
ROMANTIKILLER2 8 months ago
@ROMANTIKILLER2 nitro always did that.. so you'll tune in next monday to see what happened.
this was before internet spoilers happened
Jimusmc 7 months ago
was that money on the floor
azntk89 8 months ago
Brad Pitt - WHATS IN THE BOX?!?!?
BelmonteMMA 8 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
this shit sucks
hbk15111 8 months ago
wcw always ended the show at stupid times, sometimes it would even be in the middle of a match, who ever did the directing was an idiot who couldn't keep track of time
rmacovei2000 8 months ago
bret's thinking "wtf is this crap" 0:19
schlong19 9 months ago
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHIAMSCAREDCANTYOUTELLIMSCAREDBYTHEWAYIAMYELLINGAAAAAHHHHHHH
evrbody 9 months ago
Back when wrestling was good!
metal0737 10 months ago
Sting gave Hogan head
SonOfSaxon 10 months ago 4
Bret spent a lot of time making that head and all Hogan could do was scream? Is a "thank you" asking too much?
robbchr 10 months ago
well, i got so much to say, first of all, th.....*see you sunday for the end of my comment*
omen2240 11 months ago 4
@omen2240 LMAO
Heavyweightchampionx 8 months ago
Hogans acting was HORRIBLE XD
RandysWrestling 11 months ago 4
A sign of the horrible show to come...
RavenMichaels 1 year ago
hogans wearing his wifes sunglasses again
joe77750 1 year ago
How in the fuck did Hogan get a job as an actor he is AWFUL
StephenAlexWalker 1 year ago 3
what if it went really slow and he was like weeee! and then it stopped and hes like dangling and like awww shit
thenaturallyinsane1 1 year ago 2
THAT WAS THE BEST NITRO EVER! NWO TOOK OVER COMPLETELY!
SlayerMegadeth86 1 year ago
This looked fuckin horrible, Im sorry
Swizzy 1 year ago
When WWE had competition from WCW... we saw the best from both these companies during that era...
Whether you're a WWE or WCW fan... you have to admit that when WCW went out of business.. fans of both companies lost out
Yquit4 1 year ago
Wonder who has that head today?
robbchr 1 year ago
@robbchr Probably Al Snow. HAHAHAHA
romeokid69 1 year ago 21
lmao the crowed reaction sucked
gungrave2012 1 year ago
Keep in mind WCW was high during the big tech boom.. everything was "UP".
IncredibleTrollPower 1 year ago
Look at Bischoff. He's like, "Hulk, what the fuck are you doing?"
angeltosome 1 year ago
That was one of the WORST acting jobs I've ever seen! Hogan can't act!!
skippysippy 1 year ago
Oh man. I think Hogan went way, way over the top with his reaction to the fake Hogan head, but it was funny as hell to look at.
Torijenova 1 year ago
HAHAHAHA oh wow that was horrible.
calathan 1 year ago
Idiots - they should've spent 98 building Hogan vs Bret for the title and save Goldberg for the year after
NoBrianNoGain 1 year ago
i miss wcw
Amon666Amarth 1 year ago
The problem was with Hogan, and that is why I don't respect him. Had sting beat Hogan at Starcarde 97 the NWO would have been finished, but Hogan played the political card of me me and me, and no the business. Hogan never put the business first. The controversial finish at starcarde was to extend the NWO angle for at least one more year.I thought Bishoff was smart and understood that wrestling angle or storyline can't last for a long time.
carl2680 1 year ago
@carl2680 they dont decide who wins. Eric Bishoff isnt really the manager, just like Obama, the lizard-men illuminati decide what happens in the media LOL (im joking) :D
MexicanKukyMonster 1 year ago
@MexicanKukyMonster I think the NWO angle in wrestling was a ploy by the elite letting the public know you can't never win the battle against us.. I think the whole NWO angle didn't come from Bischoff office, but it was Turner idea, and the controllers on top.
carl2680 1 year ago
@carl2680 jaja :D
MexicanKukyMonster 1 year ago
Actually that head Hollywood Hogan is holding looks pretty damn real :D
all028 1 year ago 2
It would be cool if John Cena used a zipline on RAW. It doesn't look that cool when Sting uses a zipline.
shizeninho 1 year ago
@shizeninho nope cena is a roid freak, hes too heavy, the line would break and he would die...wait...yes he should try it...definetly
MexicanKukyMonster 1 year ago
lol did sting go slower so hogan moves out thw ay
haiemye 1 year ago
Had Bret came in back in 1996 when he and Eric first had talks, his arrival would have been cooler. Instead of bringing in so many guys to the nWo, they should have kept it ONLY former WWF guys. Hogan, Hall, Nash, DiBiase, and then bring in Bret Hart as the US Champ. I also feel that Piper and Savage should have been nWo from the start. Both were better as heels. The ULTIMATE swerve would have been for Warrior to turn heel and join them, leading to a dream match between Sting and Warrior.
nWo24life 1 year ago
hogans head is up his ass not in his hands
lol
poeticpoverty 1 year ago 2
New World Order ( NwO )
MasterTerran 1 year ago
wcw was weird
18izzo 1 year ago 2
I think they paid someone to scream really loud into a mic @ 0:20 . No in the crowd looks the least bit terrified at all.
shizeninho 1 year ago
Remember the good old days????
I myself am very partial to this since it was the ERA of Sting since he is my favorite of all time and loved him kickin Hogan's azz one of many great videos I watch from time to time to remember how I felt when I was wrapped up in WCW......
jreynolds005 1 year ago
ah, the nitro before starrcade 97
cliffburton333 1 year ago
hogan goes home and says he got head at work!
dmuse1981 1 year ago 4
lol hogan was all likea''ah wat the fuck my head D':>
darkshadowkiller117 1 year ago
They ended it there? Didn't the fans deserve to see something after that "spectacular" zipline move lol!
bobolob 1 year ago
That's Nitro right there! They would be very unpredictable in the end of the show and would literally force you to come back to your tv the week after!
MyHeadAsplodes 1 year ago
I see your point. I just think they were good at building up but not delivering in the end. As this whole buildup to Sting vs. Hogan at Starrcade 1997 proved to be. That was one of their many downfalls. That match was mediocre at best and they couldn't write it to have Sting beat Hogan cleanly and ending the nWo gimmick at least for a while. Instead of making the next Nitro a celebration we were fed crap. I hate living in the past but I used to love WCW.
bobolob 1 year ago
Yeah well you are right on that but, heh, it's probably the nostalgia, but I can't find anything negative about WCW now that it's gone.
MyHeadAsplodes 1 year ago
That's interesting because when WCW was sold to Vince all I started seeing was everything negative about WCW which in fact is a LOT.
bobolob 1 year ago
@bobolob
Supposedly, after Sting flew in on the zip-line, the fans there at the arena were treated to an un-televised match between Sting and Scott Hall. Hogan was said to have interfered and suffered the Stinger Splash for his trouble. Sting then pinned Hall with the Scorpion Death Drop.
I've only read it from one source, so I don't know if it's true or not. It sounds to me like it would have been an awesome show if it was.
BlueSkyeReynolds 1 year ago
@BlueSkyeReynolds I would believe that for sure. It was the Nitro right before Starrcade 1997 so they were really building it up. Everything was clicking. They didn't really start f'ing things up for themselves until after that PPV. If Hogan had lost cleanly to Sting and had Sting been able to roll with Belt for a while, we might not be having this conversation. They could have even brought up Goldberg against Sting and had Goldberg be the next big villain. Wishful thinking.
bobolob 1 year ago
@bobolob I believe wholeheartedly that match was WCW's undoing. Sting drew ovations like no one else by just showing up. Yet, after a year and a half of everyone waiting for Sting to defeat Hogan, they stopped his momentum cold with a bland match and a tainted title victory. To add insult, they stripped him of the belt, made him win it again, stuck him with a short reign, and then handed it back to Hogan. It's like they acknowledged that it had all been to sell that one event and nothing more.
BlueSkyeReynolds 1 year ago
@bobolob Basically, I think WCW forgot that the nWo was supposed to represent the WWF and that Sting defeating them meant him becoming the biggest star in professional wrestling. His self-destruction pretty much handed the spotlight over to Steve Austin and the WWF.
"Sting wasn't the champion we were waiting for after all. Austin, it's your show now."
BlueSkyeReynolds 1 year ago 2
@BlueSkyeReynolds It certainly worked as it was the highest ppv buy rate WCW had ever had and might have been the highest PPV buyrate of all time at the point. I could be wrong about that last part. Everything you wrote is absolutely right. Not letting Sting beat Hogan cleanly was the end of it and left a lot of sour fans. So simple a concept and they screwed it up. Stupid Bischoff and Hogan and whoever else was in charge.1998 was still a good year for WCW but was much better ayear for the WWF.
bobolob 1 year ago
@bobolob I've read that as well, but it reflects more on the build up than the event itself. But yeah, they dropped the ball. Sting had to win the belt twice, neither win was clean, and the title reign only lasted two months. Sting's popularity was in the stratosphere and they brought him back down to earth fast. I don't care how much money it meant they had to throw at him, that was the one time they really need Hogan to lose cleanly. That could have meant victory in the Monday Night Wars.
BlueSkyeReynolds 1 year ago
@BlueSkyeReynolds It would have still probably have been less money than Hall, Nash, & Hogan were getting. And even if it wasn't that would have been the perfect reason to dish out the dough. That match itself didn't even have to be that good, and it was pretty bad from memory, all Sting had to do was beat Hogan decisively making way for the next big thing. Hell, Bret Hart could have been the first big opponent for Sting then eventually Goldberg could step into the picture and even Hogan later.
bobolob 1 year ago
@bobolob Bischoff, actually, agreed with the fans and Sting in that Sting should have cleanly won. Hogan's creative control came into play and the ending with a fast count and Bret Hart restarting the match came up. Ref Mitch Patrick completely killed this though by counting normal speed. Hogan pinned Sting, cleanly. THAT is what killed this. But you are right, they never recovered with Sting's character after this. He spent the rest of his career trying to duplicate the 1996/1997 period.
nWo24life 1 year ago
@nWo24life Yea, you're absolutely right. Nick Patrick didn't make the fast count. They were trying to play over the fact that Bret new what it was like to be screwed over by a ref and such. And thus began the demise of WCW from the inside out. Slowly at first like a parasite then by 1998's Starrcade that was basically the last straw and things started falling apart at light speed by 1999.
bobolob 1 year ago
I keep reaching underneath my monitor trying to adjust the tracking, but nevertheless it is cool to see old classic stuff like this.
mrwesdaddy 1 year ago
That gives a whole new meaning to the term "dick in a box."
newyy1 1 year ago 27
@newyy1 lol yeah it does
mwamanda2006 5 months ago
what does this have to do with the film Se7en
technobob93 1 year ago
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T82heartR91 1 year ago
Look at Bischoff N the background smilin' az Hogan iz supposedly flippin' out ovr Al Snow'z head lookin' like Hollywood.
siccbeast 2 years ago
Just imagine if Hogan actually ran for president,like he said he was gonna
do, Secretary of Defense= Jimmy Hart,
Cheif of Staff= Brian Knobbs,Vice president= Ed Leslie,Secretary
General: Eric Bischoff
nWoSLAIDF4Life 2 years ago 2
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Check out the TNA shopzone, cause Hogan is in TNA now!
T82heartR91 1 year ago
would of been great if the line just stopped like 10 feet away and Sting would just hang there as other matches kept happening
hellbilly34a 2 years ago
tht made me lol
tyrone37 1 year ago
Despite opening the present and seeing the head, he's not freaked out UNTIL he grabs the head and looks directly at it.
lol.
HellspawnSpectre 2 years ago 3
wat a terrible time to end the broadcast
Crookmeisteren 2 years ago 31
@Crookmeisteren i agree that was the worst time to end a broadcast!!!!! foolishness
kappapsi9 11 months ago
@Crookmeisteren you must have not seen too much wcw.
1EPowerUp 9 months ago
@Crookmeisteren I disagree. "We'llseeyouthissundayatstarrcade" is the greatest ending to a broadcast ever.
volar 8 months ago
RIP RAVISHING RICK RUDE
darthghozt666 2 years ago 5
hogan looked retarted in this video plus bret hart was and is still the biggest waste of money that wcw invested in period!!!
manterica 2 years ago
He shouldve just walked it wouldve been quicker.
That was the slowest zipline ever.
the genius of WCW.
kanedasrifle 2 years ago 4
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wonder if the fake Hogan head had creative control as well
mickcoogan 2 years ago 37
Hell, it probably set the whole thing up. I hear it had more stroke than 98% of the locker room. It held a lot of people down for that waste of time segment.
KingofMarks91 2 years ago
@mickcoogan I think Russo had it booked to beat Darvid Arquette for the world title in a thing-on-a-pole match.
badongism 1 year ago
Let me guess: Se7en came out the month before that?
malbecks316 2 years ago 2
Nope. This episode aired 2 yrs. after Se7en came out. I wonder if they borrow the head idea from WWE. When Bret was still a face in WWE, he has a short feud with this Japanese wrestler that Japanese letters all over his body & face. One time, the guy was holding a fake head of Bret. Just like Bret (or Sting) offering Hogan a fake head of himself.
NW1977 1 year ago
Haha yeah, I remember that guy.
There is also a PPV poster from Badd Blood 1997 where Undertaker holds up something that is obviously a fake Shawn Michaels head by the hairs, in something that I guess is supposed to be an intimidating manner. But for some reason Undertaker's face was badly photoshopped over the fake head. Looks marvelous:)
Fake Heads in wrestling rule!
malbecks316 1 year ago
The guy you're thinking of was Hakushi. (I believe that translates to "White Angel.")
CaitiffFTW 1 year ago
Thanks!! I have trouble remebering the spelling of his name, but I do remeber it start with an "H". I always assume it was Heirchi or something, but then I'm terrible with spelling Japanese names. :P
NW1977 1 year ago
i hated the way nitro's ended like this all the time.
tntitans87 2 years ago 10
classic moment from the 90's wrestling boom, present wrestling is on life support
GaBrandENT 2 years ago 5
wcw hands down was the best .
mylovewillneverend 2 years ago 6
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As a life-long WWF fan I can say it still feels good to have beaten WCW. They were worthy opponents though.
irishgeezer1 2 years ago
wow! that's great how Sting came...
elmalasorte 2 years ago
I guess your VCR didn't have auto-tracking.
julesman808 2 years ago
LOLOLOL i loved cheezy ole wcw
DKvsLow 2 years ago
WCW was better than what WWE is anymore
fallguye6011 2 years ago 31
@fallguye6011 WCW at it's peak in 1997 was better than any wrestling company ever. You had the greatest story arc ever of Sting vs the nWo and you had easily the greatest (american) undercard.
Anglefan12 1 year ago
@Anglefan12 I agree with you completely. I think it was great how the WCW events had AMAZING undercard/mid-card matches featuring guys like Chris Jericho, DDP, Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero, etc. Then you had legends like Hogan, Flair, Sting, Hall, Nash, Piper, Anderson. Even though they came in later, guys like Bret Hart, The Warrior, Goldberg, and Sid Vicious were great additions had AOL/Time Warner let Bischoff run his company like he had been doing leading up to the merger. Best roster ever.
nWo24life 1 year ago
@fallguye6011 : G.L.O.W. was better than what WWE is anymore.
D2Kprime 11 months ago
hogans a shitty actor
TheJiljo 2 years ago
Whats wrong with Hogan?
Most i know love getting head.
lol ok that was cheesy and too easy i know, but i couldnt resist
0utsidersEdge 2 years ago
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wcw sucks wwf all the way baby
carter20081985 2 years ago
Damn, why cant wrestling be like this these days? I used to enjoy WCW Nitro from beginning to end.
nsb1981 2 years ago 5
where can i get the full video?
mayhemtv 2 years ago
man i forgot how awesome wcw was back in the day. the stuff with sting, hogan etc is like something straight from a comic book lol. even the best of wwfs attitude era wasnt as good as wcw around this time.
kamui19X 2 years ago 3
Remember the days when WCW/WWF could build towards epic matches?
Sting/Hogan (despite the match being completely botched) was built up over a year to the point where if you were a wrestling fan you'd of been crazy to miss their match up.
barbarash 2 years ago 3
Back then you would be afraid to miss any of the show because they had so many great promos. I miss the monday night wars.
stonecoldcorpse 2 years ago 6
You know that the promos are great when you seek them more than the matches.
goanyways 2 years ago 4
Today's wrestling is not even at the toe of what WCW was. Fight scenes and stunts have indeed advanced since then, but now there is little acting or stories or themes.
I remember when I was a boy the enthusiasm of watching this on TNT. It was great and I loved it every time.
But now watching WWE or TNA isnt like watching WCW was.
Modern wrestling companies should understand that ppl also want a developed story behind the stunts. No story = no heart, no soul!
darkdanu89 2 years ago 32
I totally agree darkdanu89. I was in my teens when all of this happened and I made sure to never miss a show and I loved every minute of it. There is no comparison between WCW and the wrestling of today. It's a shame really.
andrewt06 2 years ago 3
Yeah... I was a young lad when I watched all this. It was so great. Now though, I don't really like any wrestling now.
Makes you miss the good ole days...
bigcpeck 2 years ago 2
@darkdanu89 Wrong...watch chikara pro...its magical..great storylines...great wrestling...amazing enthusiasm.
oldschoolhero66 1 year ago
@darkdanu89 the best thing we can all do is give TNA a chance. TNA is making strives to becoming a good product, but isn't quite there yet. theres a LOT of talent, and now we just need good teamwork amongst the creative staff. if we ever want a major competitor to WWE, we need to get behind TNA.
tna19931 1 year ago
@darkdanu89 Dude. THIS is what WCW was. It's a good thing wrestling isn't like this anymore, because this, my friend, is terrible. It's childish, and not in a charming, entertaining way. It's childish in a reach-into-the-back-of-your-pants-and-pull-out-a-brown-hand-to-smear-the-walls-with-it kind of way. It's stupid, horribly executed amateur bullcrap.
Oh, and TNA is very much like this, you should go check it out. You'll probably love it now.
malbecks316 1 year ago
@malbecks316 a good thing wrestling isn't like this anymore? so not providing a competitive product that brings in 4 and 5 ratings? wrestling is different indeed to day, but in a bad way...people tend to dislike it strongly these days! the late 90's were a golden era.
tna19931 1 year ago
@tna19931 What's your point? TNA sure isn't providing such an alternative, all they are doing is trying their damnedest to rehash latter-day WCW-mistakes while hoping that repeating "We are the alternative to WWE" will somehow make them the alternative to WWE.
And the reason why they fail is because they do shit like the above, only on a slightly smaller budget and with even less competence.
malbecks316 1 year ago
@malbecks316 No, THIS is what WCW was when it was going under. WCW used to be great.
4Tracer 1 year ago
Yeah it does look real crazy enough, i remember reading a spoiler and thinking it was gonna come off cheesy and fake....
But thats damn near spitting image
JsunPWMemories 2 years ago 2
That head look scarily realistic.
barbarash 2 years ago 2
Hogan's "acting" initially makes it seem like he loves it and it's the greatest gift ever!
BrunnerJamFilms 2 years ago 4
i just got over 5 straight minutes of laughing so hard, now im back to laughing again. hogan deserves and oscar for that performance
Serabo 2 years ago
0:18 LOL
gieboy00 2 years ago 2
WHAT DOES EVERYBODY WANT?
selfhighfive 2 years ago 7
i think they should have stretched out the part where Hogan was reacting to finding his head in a box. It could have been an interesting moment to explore the character of Hollywood Hulk Hogan, if only they held the camera on his reaction a little longer...
refoliation 2 years ago 4
This is why Hollywood Hogan is now know as one the greatest actors of our time.
robbchr 2 years ago 3
ah, damn! They cut it. What happened after? Did bret hart get involved or did sting chase hogan away??
all028 2 years ago
If memory serves me correctly after this (off camera) Scott Hall came out and him and Sting had a dark match.... i remember seeing pictures of it
chad2909 2 years ago 2
Wheres your head at?
pddatd 2 years ago
this isthe greatest thing i ever ever seen in my entire life!
piro4351 2 years ago
Aaaaaand . . . favorited.
Deptchargeeng 2 years ago
the horror........THE HORROR!!!
JacksInn 2 years ago
Great, great pay - per - view.
OfExecution 2 years ago
LOL, awesome acting Hogan. lmao
AarinHikaKao 2 years ago
ACTING~!
jsnt 2 years ago
Sting did this?
elmalasorte 2 years ago
i miss those days
MJJKingdom 2 years ago 4
me too, where else u can see a couple of shows before the biggest ppv, and tha bad guys take over ya show....NWO NITRO...ya...them days was sick
smoothkidd272k6 2 years ago 2
When I first saw this I was like... nice way to rip off Hakushi. lol
cdowg187 2 years ago
yes this was amazing
Stingfan200010 2 years ago