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** Speaking of Arquette, how the hell could he have won the belt in the first place? He was in a ''tag-team'' match with [[Diamond Dallas Page]] at the time. Can singles titles even change hands during tag team bouts?
*** The match was under stipulation rules where the first person to score a fall become the champion. This is now known as the "David Arquette gimmick match". Note that the same type of match occurred during the Hummer angle the year before.
*** Actually, the Hummer-angle "first to score a pinfall" match was more convoluted than the easy-to-grasp (but stupid) "first to score a pinfall wins the title". In ''that'' match, it was [[
** Blame [[Vince McMahon]]. How absurdly successful was the "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection"? Absurdly successful enough that nearly every big-time booker ever would try it again, to varying results. It's just that nobody was dumb enough to put wrestling's most prestigious title on David Arquette before Russo.
*** True, but at least McMahon only put athletes or people with athletic backgrounds into matches ([[Mr. T]], Lawrence Taylor, etc.). Any non-athletes would be announcers or something.
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* "[[Hulk Hogan|HULK HOGAN]] IS IN THE BUILDING! GO GET 'EM, HULKSTER!" "Yeah, but WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON?!" Seriously, way to spoil the surprise there, Bobby. Was it even mentioned, after the show, that [[Bobby Heenan]] had something of a preternatural understanding of what was about to happen? Did anyone ever go, "Hey, Brain. How the hell did ''you'' guess that ''[[Hulk Hogan]]'', of all people, was going to turn against us?! Are you ''also'' with the [[New World Order]]?!"
** Heenan didn't actually know Hogan was going to turn on WCW at that time, Heenan was simply playing into his character of hating Hogan, and actually thinking about things.
* The ending of ''Starrcade'' 1997. Hell, the entire ''fucking match.'' I know that Hogan had a creative control card, but ''seriously!'' This is the ''one time'' you should tell him to fuck off if he chooses to exercise it. Having Hogan beat the hell out of [[
** Yeah telling one of your biggest draws he can't have his way is a smart move. Even in spite of the fact that he can sue the company should they disregard the "creative control" slate in his contract (when he wants it used) but also the fact that this could galvanize him to jump ship to the competing promotion.
** Also Hogan wasn't supposed to go over Sting cleanly, the idea was that the referee was going to be paid off by the NWO and would deliver a fast count, thus justifying [[Bret Hart]] coming out and restarting the match. I suppose the idea was that not only would this be a crippling blow to the NWO, but would also get the crowd behind Bret. However as you said, Hogan pulled his control card (or as rumors go, paid off the referee for real to give a regular count and sabotage the whole angle) and thus...
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