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This is the match that started it all. The Last boom period in wrestling (For the time being). Since the internet wasnt as strong then as it is now not alot of people saw this coming. Razor Ramon jumping ship. Then the next week Diesel jumps ship. Then both saying they were bringing in a third man to face Sting, Savage, and Luger. The question on everyones mind was...Who is it? Who's The third man?
Then finally Bash at the Beach came and Hall and Nash walked out alone. It was just a 2 on 3 match. The fans felt cheated.... but not as bad as what happened later in the night when Hogan came out to the ring and showed himself to be the third man. After that happened I have never seen so much trash thrown in the ring ever. Not to mention all the little kids crying because they just saw their hero turn on them.
Then hogan cuts a classic promo saying that they are the New...World...Order in wrestling, and that the fans can "Stick It, Brother". I used to call them the Force from up North. Seeing as they all came from WWE/WWF at the time. I was convinced as a motherfucker at 9 years old that they were there to destroy WCW.
After this Sting goes on to reinvent himself into what I believe as the best Character outside of anyone not named Hogan, Flair, Or The Undertaker. I tell you what this right here is the stuff legends are made of.
So pretty much I had given up on wrestling after Summerslam 1994. Unlike others, and I'm a big Undertaker fan, but Undertaker vs. Undertaker was enough for me to stop watching the business. It was just terrible. I was 13, and like most 13 year olds at the time, wrestling symbolized childhood and being a baby, and with a match like that, it was getting pretty hard to justify defending the product.
Fast forward 18 months later, by chance, I happen to flip on TNT on a Monday Night and what the fuck, Scott Hall is on WCW. Holy Crap, this looks real. The way WCW played this angle as being a shoot was awesome, and truly a lost art now with the advent of the internet. The weeks go on and Nash shows up, and the hype elevates, and goes threw the fucking roof when Nash power bombed Bischoff of the stage. Nothing like that had been done before, and people ate it up.
The challenge is laid out from Hall and Nash to take on WCW's best guys. I believe WCW had 6 guys picked out, and narrowed it down to three, all the while no one knew who the third guy was going to be. The Internet was running wild, and if the Vbookie was around, Bret Hart would ahve been the man of choice at the time.
Obviously that didn't happen, something much better did. Hulk Fucking Hogan turned heel? say it wasn't so. It was perfect. It was exactly what the business needed and has had me hooked (for the most part) since then. Hulk Hogan is god, and WCW when it was hitting on all cylinders was a better product then the WWE ever was.
The game used to have much more talent, but a lot of the booking of the old days used to be much sillier
