See more at IMDbPro. Photos Add Image. Top cast Edit. Charles Ashenoff Konnan as Konnan. Jeff Farmer N. Sting as N. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. User reviews 2 Review. Top review. My answer is Piper won the match, but was beaten badly by Randy Savage and Hogan after the match.
Sting refused, only wanting one man: Hulk Hogan. On November 10, the nWo came to the ring wearing Canadian flags, singing "O Canada," and making references to Bret Hart and the Montreal Screwjob , which had taken place the night before. This led to speculation that Bret Hart would soon be joining the nWo.
He also made hostile references to Sting, whom he held a grudge against for ending his career three years earlier during a match in Japan. This win earned him a WCW Title shot in the future. Instead of joining the nWo, however, he agreed to be the special referee in the match pitting Larry Zbyszko against the nWo's Eric Bischoff.
Meanwhile, frustrated by Sting's constant psychological games, Hogan finally agreed to face Sting and put the WCW title on the line.
Sting vs. Hogan and Bischoff vs. It seemed as if the nWo was poised to take full control after a year and a half of fighting WCW. This event was intended as a legit test run for a permanent changeover of Nitro to an nWo-centric show, with the soon-debuting Thunder becoming the WCW-centric prime-time show.
However, due to abysmal ratings following the twenty-plus minutes of the conversion of the set on live television, the plan for an nWo weekly show was quietly dropped, with the only evidence being the occasional nWo Monday Nitro T-shirt being worn by an nWo member. This gave full control of Nitro to WCW. Hogan had originally pinned Sting, but confusion arose when Bret Hart appeared at ringside and accused referee and former nWo member Nick Patrick of making a fast count, claiming "it would never happen again.
Hogan then submitted to Sting's Scorpion Death Lock. After 13 months of inactivity, Sting had finally stood up for WCW and ended Hogan's reign atop the company.
WCW now had full control of Nitro , and it seemed that the nWo would fall apart at the seams. Because of the controversy surrounding Sting's title win, James J. This prompted Sting to finally speak after 16 months, telling Dillon " You have no guts!
Soon, problems began to arise between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage. Savage had attempted to defeat Lex Luger on numerous occasions, but lost because of botched interference from fellow nWo members, including Hogan. This led to heated arguments between Savage and Hogan, and there were near physical confrontations between Savage and Nash. On the same card, Scott Steiner turned on his brother Rick and joined the nWo.
Randy Savage would then make his intentions clear: He didn't need the nWo's help, and now that Hogan had dropped the ball, he would defeat Sting to take the WCW title back to the nWo. On March 15, , at Uncensored, Savage and Hogan attempted to settle their differences in a steel cage match. The match ended in a no contest. On the same card, Scott Hall received his title shot against Sting, but lost the match.
Randy Savage would then state to Hogan that there were certain members of the nWo who were plotting to throw him out of the group. Hulk Hogan stated that Waltman "couldn't cut the mustard". The differences within the nWo were becoming more apparent. Randy Savage and Kevin Nash were suddenly realizing that Hogan was only looking out for himself, and the nWo was secondary.
Nash made it clear, however, that he would just as soon use the bat on Hogan. After the match, Hogan assaulted Kevin Nash. The next night on Nitro , Hogan would challenge Savage for the title. During the match, interference by both Kevin Nash and Bret Hart played a major role.
This signalled the split of the nWo into two factions. On May 4, , Kevin Nash and Randy Savage appeared wearing black shirts with a red nWo logo, as opposed to the familiar white logo. Bret Hart seemed to be siding with Hogan, but was never officially named an nWo member. After his match with Roddy Piper on the same night, Randy Savage was forced to leave wrestling due to knee injuries and would not be seen again for nearly a year.
On June 1, , Sting also joined the nWo Wolfpac. The nWo Wolfpac became hugely popular amongst wrestling fans in the summer of while continuing their battle with nWo Hollywood.
Warrior would form his own faction dubbed the One Warrior Nation , which included himself and former nWo member The Disciple. Bret Hart defeated Wolfpac member Sting, putting him out of action for about 6 months. Scott Steiner would go on to assume the leadership role in the nWo Hollywood faction. During that same month, Harlem Heat 's Stevie Ray , who had previously flirted with the possibility of becoming a member of the nWo, officially joined nWo Hollywood after turning on Booker T.
Nash, however, did not see the attack and pinned Goldberg. This match also marked The Giant's final appearance in a WCW ring, which ended when Savage crotched him on the ropes and clotheslined him out of the ring. On the January 4 , episode of Nitro Goldberg was scheduled to have a championship rematch with Nash. A false imprisonment instigated by the nWo would remove Goldberg from the match, causing the match to be replaced with Nash vs.
In the match, which has been called the " Fingerpoke of Doom " by fans, after the bell rang to begin the bout, Hogan poked Nash in the chest, after which Nash fell to the mat until Hogan was able to get the pin and win the match. This short-lived group was sardonically labelled the nWo B-Team by fans and commentators.
By mid , the nWo had disappeared and Hogan had reverted to face status. In late , the nWo came back for one more run as the silver and black rather than black and white. This version was also referred to as "nWo " and the word "new" in "new World order" logo was underlined to emphasise that this was a new version of the group. This nWo lasted into early , but soon faded away, in great part due to the injury and retirement of Bret "The Hitman" Hart, the leader of the group.
By this point, not only the nWo, but the entire WCW, had lapsed into what seemed to be an inevitable and permanent decline, constantly bettered by the WWF and relegated to a permanent second-place status, a situation many long-time WCW fans blamed in part on WCW management having stayed with the nWo storyline for entirely too long.
As a result, he turned face and began feuding with Hall and Nash, with The Rock at his side. Bischoff thought North America was ready for the same. It had a very much of a big boxing feel to it. Their television ratings were flat, at best, whereas in Japan with a more realistic version of wrestling, and because of the way it was promoted and marketed and covered in the media, it was a more of an toyear-old product or presentation.
Could you talk to Eric Bischoff for me? Bischoff realized quite quickly that this duo was perfect for what he wanted to do with what would become the NWO. That set up my storyline. That was the foundation for it. He did it very elegantly, I might add.
Hogan would, of course, have second thoughts. It would be good for WCW and make a fascinating story and Sting agreed. So after Sting had agreed and then subsequently I got a phone call from Hulk Hogan, I was faced with a kind of a dilemma. He got just that, but perhaps to a detriment. You should have listened to me! Now, I understand it, too, because I got exactly what I wanted; a natural reaction, but it would have been preferable had he not done it.
As the NWO angle began to dominate WCW programming in the weeks and months following Bash at the Beach with the faction growing in number of prominence, a funny thing happened when it came to fan reaction. Quite clearly despised heels at the outset of the angle, the NWO started to get cheered — first a little, but then a lot.
However, after the initial turn of Hulk Hogan, if you go back and watch some of the Nitros or pay-per-views for the next couple of months, the heels were getting cheered for the most part.
Now, you still had a very loyal, kind of traditional WCW audience who felt that the NWO was stomping a mudhole in their favourite promotion and their favourite wrestlers. You did have a little bit — I would say 25 per cent, perhaps — of the audience react negatively to the NWO, but at least 50 to 75 per cent were cheering them on. That was a new phenomenon.
The babyface is getting booed and the heel is getting cheered? What the hell? Bischoff says it was just a product of changing tastes. Wrestling caught on late. The NWO was late to the anti-hero dance. But if you watched characters in movies at that time, your central characters, the most popular characters in any film were anti-heroes. They were flawed badasses and people love flawed badasses. They still do to this day. So I think in wrestling at least, the NWO was the first storyline characterization of performers who kind of embraced that anarchy, anti-hero persona and the audience reacted accordingly.
By that fall, Bischoff would get in on the act himself.
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