2. Hulk Hogan Returns At Bash Of The Beach '96, Turns On WCW, Joins The nWo
Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage had defeated the entire "Alliance to End Hulkamania" at Uncensored in March of 1996 when Hulk Hogan - then a highly underwhelming babyface performer - decided to "take a break" in WCW. Of course, as Hogan took his "break," by June of 1996, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had debuted in WCW, and were booked into a six-man tag match versus Sting, Lex Luger and Randy Savage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO9zxsRzN-M The nWo was without a third man, and when Hogan made his return and promptly turned heel my dropping the leg on Randy Savage, it literally changed professional wrestling forever.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
