10 Most Elaborate Works In Wrestling History

8. The Outsiders Arrive

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"Hey, you wanna go to war? You want a war? You're gonna get one."

- Scott Hall, 27 May 1996, WCW Nitro

With that, the wrestling world was left stunned as 'Razor Ramon' turned up on WCW programming, took shots at Billionaire Ted, Randy Savage and Gene Okerlund, and indicated some sort of real-life invasion of Ted Turner's wrasslin' promotion.

Skip ahead two weeks and Hall would be joined by Kevin Nash, with the two and a mystery man throwing down the gauntlet to take on three of WCW's finest. While it soon became clear to most fans that Hall and Nash were now clearly on the WCW payroll, that initial week or two was a hugely confusing, exciting time.

At that point, these Outsiders were yet to refer to themselves as Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, with the duo also using certain mannerisms synonymous with their Razor Ramon and Diesel personas. While they didn't say they were the Bad Guy and Big Daddy Cool, Hall and Nash acted like they were the Bad Guy and Big Daddy Cool - so much so, the then-WWF even launched a lawsuit against WCW.

On the flip side of this, WWF later caused unrest in WCW by promoting the returns of both Diesel and Razor Ramon in September '96. So concerned that Nash and Hall had somehow agreed to head back to McMahon, WCW swiftly gave the pair new and improved contracts - only for the promotion to be left with egg on its collective face when Glenn Jacobs and Rick Bognar showed up as Fake Diesel and Fake Razor, respectively.

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