10 Biggest WCW Crowd Reactions Ever

9. Sting Joins The Black And Red

Sting nWo Wolfpac
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By summer of 1998, the New World Order had grown to such gigantic proportions that the only real storyline in the company was the faction splitting into two halves. WCW's wrestlers stopped being either WCW or nWo, and the choice soon became one between nWo Hollywood or nWo Wolfpac. If you think choosing Clinton or Trump was depressing, try being a WCW wrestler in 1998.

Sting had been the one man to avoid this entire debacle for a while (more on that soon enough), but even The Icon had been swallowed up by this monolith as 1998 trudged on. With his old 'friends' The Giant and Lex Luger siding with Hollywood and Wolfpac respectively, the clock counted down to Sting's decision. Which side would he choose?

It seemed as though he had chosen Hogan and the white and black, as The Stinger removed his coat to reveal the classic nWo shirt. This was a ruse however, and after hitting Hogan with a clothesline and Giant with a slam, he struggled to remove the shirt to reveal he was nWo Wolfpac all along.

Despite how tired this all seems in 2017, the live crowd were still going bonkers for any decision made by a big star back in 1998. We may not remember it fondly, but the nWo Wolfpac was all sorts of popular back in the day, and not even a non-compliant t-shirt could stop the enthusiasm of the fans.

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