I took this from twnpnews.com:
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This led to a three man tag match at Bash at the Beach '96. Hall and Nash said they had a mystery partner, against Sting, Savage and Luger. Luger hit his head on the ring post, and was taken out. This made it two on two, until Hogan came down and attacked a downed Savage. The NWO formed, and began attacking WCW wrestlers from behind with ball bats and such. Sting led the charge, but later on, the NWO took Cobra, a WCW mid-carder, and turned him into Bogus Sting, a Sting lookalike. The lookalike attacked Luger, and when the real Sting appeared, he was shunned by WCW. After Fal Brawl, where the NWO beat WCW's team, and Luger told Sting to leave, Sting said he was turning his back on WCW, and was going to pop in and out for a while. He started appearing as the Black and White Sting, and began jumping various wrestlers. After close to a year of dropping from rafters, and coming out of the crowd. Sting revealed his true colors when he helped WCW's team fend off the NWO after they tried to attack Lex Luger. This led to Sting vs Hogan, which took a 9 month buildup into Starrcade '97. The match was a screwjob, and dissapointed a ton of people, and led to WCW's ratings slide in early 98. Sting was the biggest star in wrestling at the time, but due to Hogan's ego, not wanting to job clean when it was needed, a lot of momentum was lost. Sting then began feuding with other people in the company, like Bret Hart, who turned heel.
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The Finger Poke of Doom was an angle where shortly after Kevin Nash beat Goldberg for the WCW world title, he dropped the title on Nitro to Hulk Hogan.
Instead of an actual match, the two nWo members walked into the ring, Hogan poked Nash in the chest, Nash crumpled, and Hogan covered him for the win. The two got up laughing, and most fans felt it was a slap in the face,as this was a sign Hogan ran things backstage and the angle cheapened the title.