10 Wrestling Moments That Changed Everything

7. The New World Order Forms

As competitive as Nitro threatened to be in the early months, it couldn't quite topple the WWF's grip on the North American market. Hulk Hogan hadn't been enough to sway the casuals every Monday night, but he was more potent when aligned with the incoming Kevin Nash and Scott Hall as the aggressive New World Order.

WCW's Bash At The Beach 1996 was notable for two things: Hogan turning heel and the nWo's formation.

After that, the heat was on for the WWF. The Order, despite technically being heels, dripped coolness, and they helped shift old-timey dynamics between babyfaces and heels forever. Fans loved the nWo's monochrome colour scheme, slick video packages and the fact they were anti-authority bad-asses who did what they wanted when they wanted.

Without that degenerate vibe, there's a very good chance D-Generation X wouldn't have founded itself in 1997. The nWo upped the ante for what a wrestling faction should be, did it by presenting its members as real people who weren't defined by conventional rules and altered the course of wrestling history forever.