1998 also saw the New World Order really rich its ridiculous peak, to the point where it was able to splinter into two separate factions. One of these was led by Kevin Nash and called nWo Wolfpac, whilst Hollywood Hulk Hogan ran the other one, entitled nWo Hollywood. The quality of the group's membership had been watered down severely by this point, and it was quite easy to lose track of who was a part of the grand nWo structure. Regardless, Stevie Ray joined the group in August of that year not long after losing his brother's Television belt. Strangely enough (for pro wrestling at least), this didn't immediately lead to a feud with his brother. Towards the end of the year the nWo reunited after the infamous 'Fingerpoke of Doom' incident, and was insanely bloated. The lesser heralded members of the group became known as the 'B-Team', which is pretty much guaranteed to remove any integrity a wrestler can have. Still, if life gives you lemons you should always locate sugar and water to make lemonade, and Mr. Ray did just that by defeating Vincent (WWF's Virgil), Brian Adams (Crush) and Horace Hogan to take over the leadership of the B-Team. This didn't last too long, and the group eventually disbanded with Stevie Ray reuniting with Booker T. I was going to tally up the total members of the New World Order through its various incarnations, but one look at the Wiki page made me decide against such madness. There were a lot.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.