20 WTF Moments From WCW Nitro (Feb 2nd, 1998)
Giants fined, a Regal return and Sting returns to the Nitro ring.
This is just the second 3 hour edition of the flagship show and it's interesting to see how the company fill the extra hour. The influx of WWF stars like the British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart has propped up the mid card to flesh it out a little more and the ongoing saga of the new World order and the beginning of them crumbling has some more time to play out on each episode. Going into this week's show, the big advertisement was the main event of Sting going one on one with Randy Savage, as well as the fallout from Kevin Nash using the illegal jacknife powerbomb the week before. Neither Bret Hart or Ric Flair made appearances this week, which seemed slightly strange. Last week, Bret made his intention to challenge the winner of Sting and Hogan for the WCW World Title but all we got of The Hitman was a video package replaying the old promo. Given that Bret came into WCW as the hottest star in wrestling at the time thanks to the Screwjob, he's already starting to blend into the background of the programme. Worrying, for sure. With all that mind, here are the 20 WTF Moments from the February 2nd episode of Nitro from 1998.....