https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkURI9m8zHo In 1999 Kevin Nash was feuding with a returning Randy Savage, complete with a newly darkened outfit, a newly steroid inflated physique, and a new valet named Gorgeous George. The feud was initially pretty standard stuff until a particularly ridiculous segment in which Macho Man hijacked Kevin Nashs limo and locked him inside. Savage escaped from the limo while Nash tried to unlock the doors in a panic. Suddenly a white hummer careened into the limo at high speed, assumedly mangling or at least injuring, Big Sexy (and the unfortunate cameramen who were in the limo filming the interior from two different angles - but let's just forget about them). Nash crawled out of the wreck looking broken down and seriously injured, and it appeared the Macho Man had one upped the seven footer. WCW was hoping that their fans would be abuzz with the question of who was driving the Humvee. A similar angle had worked in WWE with Stone Cold getting hit by a car. However in their rush to replicate this aspect of the storyline, it appeared as if WCW forgot that angle was a bit of a fizzer when it was revealed that Rikishi was inexplicably the driver. WCW should have taken that as a warning sign, but of course they didn't and they forged ahead anyway. The question of who drove the Hummer became one of their biggest storylines of the year, and one of the strangest too. WCW wrung the storyline out for months over multiple PPV's hinting that it could have been Sid Vicious, Hogan, or even Sting(!). They dropped the storyline once only to bring it back almost immediately, and then just after they brought it back Savage left the company because he just couldn't cope with the insanity any longer. Nash was also forced into a storyline retirement at this time, but somehow WCW thought they could still keep the question of who was driving the Hummer in the air even though fans had lost interest months ago, and the two main characters involved in the storyline were no longer on screen. Eventually the storyline was simply just dropped altogether and never spoken of again. What is also surprisingly odd about this storyline in hindsight is just how little WWE has learned from it, and how rather than being an anomaly, this technique of lets just pretend it never happened story telling is more common than ever today. So in that regard maybe WCW were just ahead of the curve.
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