Hulk Hogan's 26 Losses - From Cleanest To Screwiest

8. Starrcade 1997 - Sting

Hulk Hogan lying down Halloween Havoc 1999
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Sting, the possibly superpowered demonic avenger that had shredded through the nWo with zero effort in the 18 months leading up to this match, loses. Just straight-up gets pinned. The announcers tried to say it was a fast count, but nope, WCW's biggest hero took a Big Leg and stayed down for a regular, maybe even slow three count. 

There are plenty of urban legends about Hogan convincing or even bribing referee Nick Patrick to "forget" to count fast, but the outcome was ol' Hollywood scoring a visual pin on the Stinger.

Things just got worse from there. Bret Hart appeared, beat up a referee, and restarted the match. Sting then dismantled Hogan in seconds and applied the Scorpion Deathlock, with Hart calling for the bell despite Hogan not tapping out or verbally submitting. 

What should have been Sting beating Hogan clean to kill off the nWo once and for all wound up being the beginning of a dumb instant replay angle, and also the beginning of the end of WCW's hot streak.

Rating: Pointlessly Screwy

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