Pro Wrestling Chronicle

Match # 132: Hollywood Hogan/Sting/Goldberg vs. Kevin Nash/Sid/Scott Steiner (Nitro 8/9/99)

Nash, Sid, and Steiner is the oddest team I’ve seen in some time. Why did Sid have a job, why did Nash bother to show up, and isn’t that the wrong Steiner for 1999 WCW? The faces all get separate entrances because they’re bigger starts and apparently this makes the entrance less weird. Goldberg comes out to some Megadeath song, which has me puzzled as hell. 1999 WCW. Hogan comes out to his original crappy Hogan face theme, the belt, and the red and yellow. This was the re-debut of the look. I could care, but that’s probably why it’s on the set. I usually like six man’s, and here I’m trying to figure out who is gonna carry this – and I should with SIX guys there.

The atmosphere is pretty awesome at the start. That gains it some credit and leeway with me. The first few minutes is Hogan in there laying out what would later be his Rock match from Mania, in the sense it’s all well layed out to pop a ready and willing nostalgic crowd. Hogan clears the ring of all three opponents and it’s 1985 again. I’ll go with it even if it’s not my thing. Nash versus Goldberg is next. It’s simple and awesome, thanks to the crowd, and I like everything until Sid is tagged in. That’s kept short too, and now the workhorse – believe it or not – named Sting gets in.

The do a ref bump after the initial short match ups that is terrible, and it sets off a clever, but mistimed chain of events that ends with Hogan killing people with chair shots while Sting gets the Scorpion Death Lock on Nash. A new ref comes in to see Nash quickly pass out. That’s your super star studded main event. A good lay out with bad timing that was a bit short. The crowd gets the 7th man award. 2 ½ and 5/10.