15 Exact Moments WCW Booking Stopped Making Sense
1. Hollywood Hogan Can See Warrior
WCW eventually got their hands on The Ultimate Warrior, but he wasn't Ultimate by the time he reached Atlanta. Eric Bischoff brought Warrior in to feud with Hollywood Hogan so the duo could reprise their timeless WrestleMania VI battle at Halloween Havoc 1998. That pay-per-view would become infamous for going off the air before Goldberg vs. DDP in the main event slot was even finished.
That might've had something to do with Hogan and Warrior going over their allotted time. "Might've".
Before the pay-per-view, WCW gamely tried to portray Warrior as a supernatural magic man who could play various parlour tricks on Hulk and his nWo cronies. One of the most memorable examples came on the 5 October 1998 Nitro. During that episode, Hogan was horrified when he could see Warrior staring back at him in a dressing room mirror.
There was just one problem: Eric Bischoff couldn’t see what his buddy was seeing, but fans watching on big screens in the arena and those watching Nitro at home could. Huh? This was done to make it seem like Warrior was inside Hogan's head, but did it mean he was also inside the minds of fans too? Or, did it mean that Bischoff was the one who had issues?
Warrior's tricks would come back to bite WCW too. Davey Boy Smith was reportedly injured after he landed badly on a trap door in the ring during one of his matches, and precisely nothing about Warrior's vanishing tricks helped him out come Halloween Havoc. Then, he disappeared from the promotion for real and was never seen in WCW again.
Just be careful next time you look into the mirror, folks.
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