Ubermensch
Pre-Show Stalwart
To the preface this post, I'm not saying that the nWo wasn't booked properly or that Michaels would have made a better 3rd man than Hogan. In all likelihood he would not have. This is simply a 'What if?' and how I would have booked it.
After the Curtain Call incident begins to circulate through wrestling magazines and among fans, WCW decides to change direction and leave Hogan out of the nWo and off screen for the time being.
Bash at the Beach goes on in the same fashion. Luger is injured, the referee gets knocked out. Nash and Savage brawl on the outside, while Sting cinches the death-lock in on Hall. Down the isle comes WWF Heavyweight Champion Shawn Michaels with belt in hand. Michaels levels Savage from behind with the WWF title, and goes to the ring delivering a super kick to Sting.
Michaels cuts a scathing promo how he is the real world's champion and that the nWo invasion has just began.
Now, obviously Michaels showing up with the WWF championship, and breaching his contract, would set WCW up for legal trouble from the WWF. I think Bischoff would have accepted the risk with Ted Turner's money regardless.
The nWo continues to attack WCW along with the Dungeon of Doom, and Horsemen while destroying and tagging WCW property in the process.
I give WCW about a month of letting Michaels show up to WCW events with the WWF title before the legal ramifications of WCW continuing to do so become to heavy. Huge build up leading to Hog Wild as the WWF world Champion, or 'World's Champion' as they may have called it, would go up against the WCW Heavyweight Champion, The Giant. The Giants puts on a good match with Michaels who has a hard time mounting an offense despite his high flying movies and underhanded tactics. Michaels goes for a super kick that misses and hits the referee knocking him out. Giant recovers grabs Michaels' throat, Hall attempts to interfere, but is grabbed by the other hand. The audience cheers as we think we may see a double choke slam. Nash comes and delivers the big boot freeing both of them. Michaels signals that he wants Nash to deliver a power bomb with his and Halls help. As they are about to set the move up, the Dungeon of Doom comes to the ring to aid their fellow Giant. Hall and Nash smartly lead them to the dressing room in pursuit. The Giant has Michaels in the air for the choke slam when HHH comes from the audience and nails him in the back with the world title. Michaels covers for the win and HHH is the 4th man of the nWo. This is the last time that the WWF title is seen on WCW programming, but the image of Michaels holding both the WCW and WWF heavyweight championship circulates throughout all of the wrestling publications. Now with both titles, Michaels declares himself the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion at a time of kayfabe.
The NWO continue their ruthless antics and the content of their promos resembles DX. The nWo challenge WCW at War Games, but WCW reveals that HHH cannot wrestle because he is not under contract with WCW. Flair and Savage agree to put aside their differences and band together with Sting and Luger to form a super team against the nWo. Again the nWo is not revealing their fourth man until the match. WCW goes into War Games with the +1 advantage. Things go well until Flair unintentionally hits Flair causing the two rekindle their feud and brawl in the cage. Sting attempts peel Savage off Flair while Luger is left to keep the nWo at bay. The Giant, the nWo's fourth man comes down to the ring, choke slams Flair, followed by a figure four from Michaels for the pin. The nWo takes advantage of the Savage and Flair fight to win War Games and grant HHH a contract as a stipulation. As the cages are raised HHH joins the nWo in the ring to beat down the fallen WCW stars. Michaels continues to hold the figure four on Flair as the Horsemen come to the ring, but are beat back. The Dungeon of Doom also comes down to attack the traitor Giant, but are also repelled. Unable to cooperate, the PPV ends with the Dungeon, Horsemen, NWO, and WCW attacking one another. Sting is not seen after War Games.
The NWO adds Syxx to their group and Rick Rude as their manager on the following Nitro. Flair and Savage each blame one another for WCW losing and are set to wrestle the same night with Flair defending his US title against Savage. Savage comes to the ring and waits on Flair who is later shown laid out along with the rest of the Horsemen in the backstage area. Elizabeth, Flair's manager, is shown crying in the crown, with her dress torn given the illusion she had been assaulted. Savage rushes to her aid and an nWo ambush. NWO lay Savage out and spray paint him setting up a match between Michaels and Savage at Halloween Havoc. Michaels defeats Savage at Havoc after the Giant choke slams him outside the ring and rolls in for a pin. The NWO again come to the ring to assault Savage. Just then Hogan appears at the entrance way on his Harley, he rides to the ring and circles around it with a chain in hand before coming to the ring and clearing the nWo out and saving his long time friend Savage.
Savage is sidelined with an injury and Hogan continues to feud with the NWO. War Games rolls around and Hogan manages to eliminate a ring of Horsemen followed by the NWO to win after body slamming the Giant over the top rope, thus earning a title shot at Starrcade 96.
There is a definite aura that the Hulkster will be the one to defeat the nWo. Hogan knows the nWo will try and interfere with his match against Michaels at Starrcade. With Savage gone, and Sting MIA, Hogan calls out Flair and the Horsemen to have his back at Starrcade as an unlikely ally. Initially refusing, the horsemen save Hogan from a nWo beat down on Nitro solidifying their alliance. Michaels is the aggressor at Starrcade, and accidently super kicks the referee. Hogan begins to Hulk up when the nWo come to the ring to interfere. Hogan manages to fend them off for some time, but is eventually overwhelmed. Flair comes to the ring with his brass knuckles and fellow Horsemen. A standoff ensues between the 6 members of the nWo, Horsemen and recovering Hogan. Just as Hogan gets up and the group gets ready to square off, Flair turns and nails Hogan with the hand protector knocking him out. The Horsemen then leave the ring and Michaels makes the cover for a 3 count. As the nWo celebrate over Hogan, Sting is seen for the first time in the rafters sporting his crow attire.
The next night on Nitro, Flair revealed that Michaels offered him at a title shot at Souled Out if he would betray Hogan and as much as he wanted to get rid of the nWo, he hated Hogan and always has. This leads to a feud between the Horsemen and nWo which ends with several gang style brawls each night on Nitro. Hogan is not seen for the duration of the month. At Souled Out Michaels appears to be dominating the match until Flair manages to hit him with him with brass knuckles, the nWo and Horsemen come to ringside and brawl. Flair slaps the figure four on HBK, until Hogan donned in a darker biker-style attire comes to the ring with chair in hand. Flair looks on in shock as Hogan goes to the ropes and leg drops Michaels while Flair holds him in the Figure Four. In a double turn, Hogan then levels Flair with the chair and places Michaels on him for the pinfall. Savage then sprints to the ring dressed in similar attire as Hogan with a chair in hand and begins leveling the Horsemen and nWo with chair shots as Hogan does the same. Michaels manages to narrowly escape and Sting again looks on at the fighting below from the rafters.
Hogan and Savage now have a more edgier anti-hero gimmick and set their sights on a feud with the Horsemen. HBK gloats that the nWo have divided and conquered WCW. The Harlem Heat joins the nWo.
At this point in the storyline you could start working in different challengers like Piper, Luger, and possibly the Ultimate Warrior who wasn't doing anything at this time. Sting begins coming to the rescue of wCw stars from nWo attackers. At Fall Brawl, Savage, Warrior, Hogan, and Luger are slated to wrestle against the HHH, HBK, Hall and Nash. Luger is laid out backstage and the NWO comes to the ring and locks the cage doors with lock and chain. Savage, Hogan, and Warrior are left to fight 3 vs 4 in the cage until Sting drops from the rafters on the war games cell with bolt cutters and clips through the top of the cage joining WCW as the 4th man. Clears out the nWo and the ascends back into the rafters as WCW scores the win. At Fall Brawl there are only 59 entrants that come to the ring. The NWO manage to eliminate all the WCW competitors and celebrate as they plan letting Michaels skate out of a title defense at Starrcade when Sting comes to the ring with bat in hand as the 60th man. Sting eliminates the nWo members and earns the title shot.
Of course at Starrcade, Sting defeats Michaels in a ICON vs ICON match to win the title and end the nWo storyline.
After the Curtain Call incident begins to circulate through wrestling magazines and among fans, WCW decides to change direction and leave Hogan out of the nWo and off screen for the time being.
Bash at the Beach goes on in the same fashion. Luger is injured, the referee gets knocked out. Nash and Savage brawl on the outside, while Sting cinches the death-lock in on Hall. Down the isle comes WWF Heavyweight Champion Shawn Michaels with belt in hand. Michaels levels Savage from behind with the WWF title, and goes to the ring delivering a super kick to Sting.
Michaels cuts a scathing promo how he is the real world's champion and that the nWo invasion has just began.
Now, obviously Michaels showing up with the WWF championship, and breaching his contract, would set WCW up for legal trouble from the WWF. I think Bischoff would have accepted the risk with Ted Turner's money regardless.
The nWo continues to attack WCW along with the Dungeon of Doom, and Horsemen while destroying and tagging WCW property in the process.
I give WCW about a month of letting Michaels show up to WCW events with the WWF title before the legal ramifications of WCW continuing to do so become to heavy. Huge build up leading to Hog Wild as the WWF world Champion, or 'World's Champion' as they may have called it, would go up against the WCW Heavyweight Champion, The Giant. The Giants puts on a good match with Michaels who has a hard time mounting an offense despite his high flying movies and underhanded tactics. Michaels goes for a super kick that misses and hits the referee knocking him out. Giant recovers grabs Michaels' throat, Hall attempts to interfere, but is grabbed by the other hand. The audience cheers as we think we may see a double choke slam. Nash comes and delivers the big boot freeing both of them. Michaels signals that he wants Nash to deliver a power bomb with his and Halls help. As they are about to set the move up, the Dungeon of Doom comes to the ring to aid their fellow Giant. Hall and Nash smartly lead them to the dressing room in pursuit. The Giant has Michaels in the air for the choke slam when HHH comes from the audience and nails him in the back with the world title. Michaels covers for the win and HHH is the 4th man of the nWo. This is the last time that the WWF title is seen on WCW programming, but the image of Michaels holding both the WCW and WWF heavyweight championship circulates throughout all of the wrestling publications. Now with both titles, Michaels declares himself the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion at a time of kayfabe.
The NWO continue their ruthless antics and the content of their promos resembles DX. The nWo challenge WCW at War Games, but WCW reveals that HHH cannot wrestle because he is not under contract with WCW. Flair and Savage agree to put aside their differences and band together with Sting and Luger to form a super team against the nWo. Again the nWo is not revealing their fourth man until the match. WCW goes into War Games with the +1 advantage. Things go well until Flair unintentionally hits Flair causing the two rekindle their feud and brawl in the cage. Sting attempts peel Savage off Flair while Luger is left to keep the nWo at bay. The Giant, the nWo's fourth man comes down to the ring, choke slams Flair, followed by a figure four from Michaels for the pin. The nWo takes advantage of the Savage and Flair fight to win War Games and grant HHH a contract as a stipulation. As the cages are raised HHH joins the nWo in the ring to beat down the fallen WCW stars. Michaels continues to hold the figure four on Flair as the Horsemen come to the ring, but are beat back. The Dungeon of Doom also comes down to attack the traitor Giant, but are also repelled. Unable to cooperate, the PPV ends with the Dungeon, Horsemen, NWO, and WCW attacking one another. Sting is not seen after War Games.
The NWO adds Syxx to their group and Rick Rude as their manager on the following Nitro. Flair and Savage each blame one another for WCW losing and are set to wrestle the same night with Flair defending his US title against Savage. Savage comes to the ring and waits on Flair who is later shown laid out along with the rest of the Horsemen in the backstage area. Elizabeth, Flair's manager, is shown crying in the crown, with her dress torn given the illusion she had been assaulted. Savage rushes to her aid and an nWo ambush. NWO lay Savage out and spray paint him setting up a match between Michaels and Savage at Halloween Havoc. Michaels defeats Savage at Havoc after the Giant choke slams him outside the ring and rolls in for a pin. The NWO again come to the ring to assault Savage. Just then Hogan appears at the entrance way on his Harley, he rides to the ring and circles around it with a chain in hand before coming to the ring and clearing the nWo out and saving his long time friend Savage.
Savage is sidelined with an injury and Hogan continues to feud with the NWO. War Games rolls around and Hogan manages to eliminate a ring of Horsemen followed by the NWO to win after body slamming the Giant over the top rope, thus earning a title shot at Starrcade 96.
There is a definite aura that the Hulkster will be the one to defeat the nWo. Hogan knows the nWo will try and interfere with his match against Michaels at Starrcade. With Savage gone, and Sting MIA, Hogan calls out Flair and the Horsemen to have his back at Starrcade as an unlikely ally. Initially refusing, the horsemen save Hogan from a nWo beat down on Nitro solidifying their alliance. Michaels is the aggressor at Starrcade, and accidently super kicks the referee. Hogan begins to Hulk up when the nWo come to the ring to interfere. Hogan manages to fend them off for some time, but is eventually overwhelmed. Flair comes to the ring with his brass knuckles and fellow Horsemen. A standoff ensues between the 6 members of the nWo, Horsemen and recovering Hogan. Just as Hogan gets up and the group gets ready to square off, Flair turns and nails Hogan with the hand protector knocking him out. The Horsemen then leave the ring and Michaels makes the cover for a 3 count. As the nWo celebrate over Hogan, Sting is seen for the first time in the rafters sporting his crow attire.
The next night on Nitro, Flair revealed that Michaels offered him at a title shot at Souled Out if he would betray Hogan and as much as he wanted to get rid of the nWo, he hated Hogan and always has. This leads to a feud between the Horsemen and nWo which ends with several gang style brawls each night on Nitro. Hogan is not seen for the duration of the month. At Souled Out Michaels appears to be dominating the match until Flair manages to hit him with him with brass knuckles, the nWo and Horsemen come to ringside and brawl. Flair slaps the figure four on HBK, until Hogan donned in a darker biker-style attire comes to the ring with chair in hand. Flair looks on in shock as Hogan goes to the ropes and leg drops Michaels while Flair holds him in the Figure Four. In a double turn, Hogan then levels Flair with the chair and places Michaels on him for the pinfall. Savage then sprints to the ring dressed in similar attire as Hogan with a chair in hand and begins leveling the Horsemen and nWo with chair shots as Hogan does the same. Michaels manages to narrowly escape and Sting again looks on at the fighting below from the rafters.
Hogan and Savage now have a more edgier anti-hero gimmick and set their sights on a feud with the Horsemen. HBK gloats that the nWo have divided and conquered WCW. The Harlem Heat joins the nWo.
At this point in the storyline you could start working in different challengers like Piper, Luger, and possibly the Ultimate Warrior who wasn't doing anything at this time. Sting begins coming to the rescue of wCw stars from nWo attackers. At Fall Brawl, Savage, Warrior, Hogan, and Luger are slated to wrestle against the HHH, HBK, Hall and Nash. Luger is laid out backstage and the NWO comes to the ring and locks the cage doors with lock and chain. Savage, Hogan, and Warrior are left to fight 3 vs 4 in the cage until Sting drops from the rafters on the war games cell with bolt cutters and clips through the top of the cage joining WCW as the 4th man. Clears out the nWo and the ascends back into the rafters as WCW scores the win. At Fall Brawl there are only 59 entrants that come to the ring. The NWO manage to eliminate all the WCW competitors and celebrate as they plan letting Michaels skate out of a title defense at Starrcade when Sting comes to the ring with bat in hand as the 60th man. Sting eliminates the nWo members and earns the title shot.
Of course at Starrcade, Sting defeats Michaels in a ICON vs ICON match to win the title and end the nWo storyline.
