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** Also at ''Bash at the Beach 1996'': the show was kicked off with a singles match between [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] and his arch-rival Psicosis (Psychosis in WCW). The match itself was a classic, ranging on average between 4 and 4-and-a-half stars (depending on who you ask). The finish, when Psicosis tried to do a top rope move and Mysterio countered with a Rana ''in mid air'', brought the entire stadium to their feet. So, so many of the cruiserweights these days are following in the footsteps of Mysterio and Psicosis, and it's a Crowning Moment of '''Un'''Awesome that Psicosis never became a star like Mysterio did.
* [[Goldberg]]'s electrifying defeat of Hollywood Hogan on ''Nitro'' in July 1998 to win the [[WCW]] World Heavyweight Championship for the first time. Though the match really should have been saved for a pay-per-view in order to create a massive PPV payday, the deafening crowd reaction (thanks to WCW scheduling the victory in Goldberg's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia) and the mere fact that Hogan took a ''clean'' pinfall loss in WCW make it probably the last truly great [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] that WCW can attest to (since it was the last time ''Nitro'' defeated ''Raw'' in the ratings).
** Prior to that, winning the United States championship from [[
** At ''Road Wild 1998'', Goldberg defended his newly won title in a battle royal where it was him going up against an entire nWo contingent. Not only did he avoid defeat against both the Hollywood and Wolfpac factions of the nWo, he capped off his victory by [[Crazy Awesome|Jackhammering The Giant]]. He would later repeat this spot on ''Nitro'', and hold him up in the Jackhammer for several seconds!
*** Speaking of the Jackhammer, [[Diamond Dallas Page]] reversing it into a Diamond Cutter at ''Halloween Havoc''.
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{{quote|"There's a group of us who are sick of the politics back there. Who are sick of the wrestlers who monopolise this company."}}
* [[Ric Flair]]'s promo on the final ''Nitro'' manages to sneak one in just before the end - read the transcript [http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/video_reviews/69054/ here].
** And you have to give a small CMoA to the WCW booking team for deciding to close out the last Nitro ever with a match that capped off one of the company's longest-running feuds: [[
* This Troper can't believe he is the first person to mention the first time Sting came down from the rafters by zipline. The blowoff may have been a misstep, but after months of watching Sting in the rafters, this was really a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
** Or how about ''Spring Breakout 1998'', where he repelled out of a FREAKIN' HELICOPTER.
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* When WCW was in its disastrous downward spiral in 1999, [[Eric Bischoff]] at one point snapped and blew up on "the boys in the back" one night. Among other things, he told the locker room that if anyone wasn't satisfied with the way things were going or how they was being booked, they could just leave. Upon hearing that, Scott "Raven" Levy quite literally [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|got up and walked out]], asking for his release. Bischoff gave it to him, and he went right back to [[ECW]].
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