7. Hulk Hogan vs. Lex Luger (August '97)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH9GK_an9K0 WCW hotshotting the WCW Championship onto Lex Luger for a week in the middle of the company's push to Sting vs. Hogan at Starrcade is everything that made watching pro wrestling during the Monday Night Wars fly in the face of conventional wrestling booking and make the industry feel wild, fresh and re-vitalized in that era. The pop that the crowd has for seeing Hulk Hogan lose in a match that they absolutely didn't expect to see when they entered the venue is great. Of course, this match would've been so much higher on the list with a build, some promos, and maybe Luger getting even the slightest little bump in popularity from this moving forward.
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