10 Worst Wrestling PPV Endings

Poor Sting couldn't get a break in either company.

You could make the argument that Starrcade 1998's ending was worse because it ended up doing more damage to WCW in the aftermath. However, it's here with 1997's convoluted, overbooked finish where the Titanic spotted the iceberg and decided to head straight forward.

It should have been perfect. Sting, after lurking in the shadows for over a year, would decisively beat nWo kingpin Hulk Hogan to reclaim the WCW Championship and defeat the evil invaders once and for all. That's what Eric Bischoff had been building toward all this time. It should have been the greatest blow-off to a long term storyline in history.

But WCW was WCW, and Hulk Hogan was Hulk Hogan. Thus, instead of Sting getting a clean, decisive win, we had Hogan getting a slow 3-count, the match being restarted in a screwy fashion, and Sting being awarded the title without really making him submit.

The crowd still popped, and WCW still made even more money in 1998, but this was where it was clear that this company was corrupt. They wouldn't do the right things when they mattered, and as a result, they ceased to be less than four years later. WWE has maintained a monopoly on mainstream wrestling ever since.