Match # 135: Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan (Nitro 2/14/00) This I remember. Nitro was struggling and spiraling out of control. They had a big show in the shadow of New York City, out in Long Island, and went back to basics. 80s Hogan versus 80s heel Flair. I’ll make a prediction: If you’ve seen the [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
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 [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
Match # 131: Hollywood Hogan vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 7/12/99) Hogan is out to the NWO Wolfpack theme with an NWO T-shirt I don’t remember. At this point they could be anywhere with on the NWO timeline. I didn’t even think they were still together at this point, but Eric Bischoff is out with gray [...]
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Match # 109: Hollywood Hogan vs. Bret Hart (Nitro 9/28/98) This was a match that should have happened in the WWF sometime in 1993 to solidify Hart as a top guy. It never happened, of course, and we got Mania 9 instead. As it is you’d think this would still be a big deal in 1998, [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Match # 105: Hollywood Hogan vs. Goldberg (Nitro 7/6/98) This was, and still may be, the most famous match up on NITRO. It certainly may be a watershed moment, as the match that would have made millions on PPV given a build to Starcade in December was put together in one short week by Bischoff, mad [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
Match # 98: Hollywood Hogan vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 4/20/98) What can you say about two mega-stars getting it on one more time? Past their primes? Sure. Could it be fun? Definitely. Will it be good? Macho gives a lot of effort and Hogan seems to have his perfectly decent match boots on whenever he makes [...]
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Match # 92: Hollywood Hogan/Scott Hall/Kevin Nash vs. Sting/Giant/Randy Savage (Nitro 3/9/98) The big guns from the NWO against a bunch of WCW main event babyfaces. Cool with me. I like the personalities, not to mention Sting’s epic entrance music. Somehow Sting is the champ, the Giant has a neck brace, and Macho is back face [...]
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Match # 83: Sting vs. Hollywood Hogan (Nitro 12/29/97) This is how goofy WCW was getting. They built this whole match up over a year and a half, had it the night before at their version of Mania (Starcade), and had Sting win on a screwed up finish (Ref Patrick didn’t fast count the Hogan pin, [...]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
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Match # 76: DDP vs. Hollywood Hogan (Nitro 10/27/97) This must have been a competitive Monday Night Wars week since they’ve flown in Buffer to announce the main event. Plus you’ve got Hogan actually wrestling a top pushed babyface DDP. I’m already looking down the aisle for the run-in, folks.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Match # 63: Hollywood Hogan vs. Lex Luger (Nitro 8/4/97) This was Luger’s big title shot and a rare Hogan Nitro title defense to headline the first three hour Nitro. I remember this night as I was at Stabler Arena for the live WWF RAW the night after Summer Slam. MFP and I made a sign [...]
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Match # 58: Lex Luger vs. Hollywood Hogan (Nitro 6/9/97) Hogan walks out to a HUGE pop in a white NWO Syxx-Pac t-shirt. The Bisch is out with him being arrogant as ever. Hogan apparently will never get skin cancer. No idea how he’s avoided it with that orange tan. They do mic work. It’s lame. [...]
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Match # 19: Arn Anderson vs. Hulk Hogan (Nitro 2/12/96) The second banana in the Four Horseman gets a shot at the superstar. We’ll see if Arn picks a body part and goes to work. You know he’ll sell his ass off for anyone. Let’s see just how selfish Hulk Hogan is feeling tonight (or [...]
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Match # 17: Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan (Nitro 1/29/96) One formula meets the other. The babyface Hogan formula match is melded with the heel Flair formula. Flair gives and Hogan takes. Your enjoyment, and mine, is probably going to be based on how you feel about those styles of matches, and if you can live [...]
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Match # 8: Hulk Hogan vs. Sting (Nitro 11/20/95) Hogan is wearing black here and teasing a heel turn, but the fans are booing him pretty bad at this point anyway. This was a precursor to his NWO days. He sneaks up behind Sting early, but doesn’t jump him. I guess that shows he’s a good [...]
Monday, November 2, 2009
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