Every WCW Halloween Havoc Ranked Worst To Best
10. 1998
Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior from Halloween Havoc 1998 is rightly regarded as one of the worst major-league bouts of all time. Wrestling Observer Newsletter readers named it that year's bout after Dave Meltzer had slapped a -***** rating on it. "One of the worst matches ever held," said Power Slam's Fin Martin.
It was, indeed, a hurricane of urine, but a perverse joy when viewed in 2020. Though a disaster in the moment, watching two legendary egos fap their way through a grim, uncooperative shambles, with neither man wanting to give their opposite number an inch, is kind of hilarious. This is particularly true of the infamous botched finish, in which Hogan tried to burn Warrior with a fireball, only for the flash paper to go up in his own face, singeing his eyebrows and moustache.
What happened with the main event marks Halloween Havoc 1998 as an objective shambles. Goldberg and Diamond Dallas Page worked a strong WCW Title match that was cut off before it could finish. WCW regrettably forgot to inform their providers that the pay-per-view was going to run longer than usual, so they were forced to air the match in full on Nitro the following evening to compensate. A shame, really, as this is a stiff knockdown brawl that somehow got better when Goldberg got concussed, as it forced a complete change of gameplan.
The rest of the PPV is a bloated pile of meh, particularly the 14-minute Scott Hall vs. Kevin Nash countout.