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Originally Posted by Vastardikai
Only if they made no mention of Mick. The insult towards Mick pissed me off to the point I turned off Nitro.
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The reference was edited from the UK broadcast of Nitro if I remember correctly. When I look back on that night at the time I hugely excited as:
- As a Hogan mark I was gutted when he supposedly "retired" to run for President and I thought he would never wrestle again. So I was overjoyed when I heard he had returned. Though the storyline was a gimmick it was so convincing that even a UK daytime show GMTV ran an article claiming Hogan was running for President. To this day I'm still confused whether Hogan was genuinely serious or it was all a gimmick.
- I was sort of happy when the NWO reformed and Hogan was the champ again, I remember getting mad when Goldberg beat my idol back on Nitro.
The end of the NWO really was when Sting won at Starrcade and then Goldberg won the belt although I feel if they were so keen to have Goldberg battle the NWO again in 1999, they should have done this the first time around i.e. over 1998 and culminated with him beating Hogan at Starrcade 1998 but whether Hogan was keen to lose twice in succession at Starrcade is another matter.
Goldberg was seemingly "thrust" into the title picture just days before when after the streak become noticed amongst fans, they announced on Thunder Hogan would defend the belt on the following Nitro to Goldberg.
It was easily one of the best and most memorable episodes of Nitro but I agree with the critics they should have saved it for PPV but that really was WCW in a nutshell: a story of missed and wasted opportunities.