Wham! Episode/Professional Wrestling: Difference between revisions

** The 07/29/96 episode of WCW Monday Nitro opens with the great announcement, tonight we have two title matches: [[The Big Show|The Giant]] and Arn Anderson for the World Heavyweight Championship and [[Rey Mysterio Jr]] and [[Eddie Guerrero]] for the Cruiserweight Title. That alone is awesome, but after the opening match [[Ric Flair]]'s theme starts and it's [[Ric Flair]] and two of the Four Horseman against [[Wrestler/Sting|Sting]], [[Randy Savage|Macho Man]] and Lex Luger. Man, this show is going to be awesome. I mean, seriously SERIOUSLY awesome. In the middle of the match Stinger is getting the crap beaten out of him, and it's looking like it could be comeback time. But then Jimmy Hart runs into the arena screaming "Get back stage!" and we find [[Scott Hall]] and [[Kevin Nash]] tearing shit up and beating Arn Anderson and Marcus "Buff" Bagwell up with baseball bats. Then Rey Mysterio comes in only to get picked up and thrown into the side of a trailer HEAD FIRST and lies on the concrete motionless. EVERYBODY runs backstage and there is chaos, wrestlers in agony and people screaming for help. Then it hits you: there is going to be no title matches tonight. The nWo have hospitalized the competitors. Everything is ruined and the entire show is thrown into chaos. [[Bobby Heenan]] doesn't feel safe and walks out on the commentary team. Before this the nWo were nothing but [[Hulk Hogan]] and his buddies talking shit and pulling silly stunts. This episode, shit got real.

** Uncensored 1997. The nWo win the main event match and what amounts to basically a perpetual "Money in the Bank"-type clause for '''all''' WCW titles. The REAL development, however, is Sting ending months of speculation on whose side is he on by kicking the nWo's collective asses, striking the first real blow against the renegade group.

* Rocky Maivia joins the Nation of Domination and becomes [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]].

* The 04/13/98 episode of ''[[WWE]] Raw'' had the company teasing a match between [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] and [[Vince McMahon]], leading to the creation of their own Wham storyline which not only broke WCW's 84-week-long winning streak in the ratings war and swung the momentum right back in the WWE's favor, but kept it there permanently after [[WCW]] went bust.