"Hey!!! You people, you know who I am, but you don't know why I'm here.
Where is Billionaire Ted? Where is the Nacho Man? That punk can't even
get into the building. Me? I go wherever I want, WHENEVER I want. And where
oh where is Scheme Gene? Cuz I got a scoop for you. When that KenDoll
look-a-like, when that weatherman wannabe comes out here later tonight,
I got a challenge for him, for Billionaire Ted, for the Nacho Man, and
for anybody else in WCW. Hey, you want to go to war? You want a war?
You're gonna GET one!"

On Nitro the following week Scott Hall appeared 5 minutes before the
show closed. He went directly to the announcers table, and took it over,
creating an nWo tradition. Hall challenged 3 of WCW's best against three
of his guys. After repeated bullies on Eric Bischoff (who was then
a Nitro commentator with Heenen and McMichaels), Sting arrived at
the set. For his trouble Sting received a toothpick in his face, but then
slapped Hall. Hall then told Sting that next week he would have "a little,
no, BIG surprize" for him.

The following week Hall once again appeared minutes before the closing
of Nitro, with his surprize, Kevin Nash. Bischoff told them that at the
Great American Bash he would give them news about this challenge of
theirs.

On June 16, 1996, in Baltimore, at the Great American Bash, JUST before
the main event, Bischoff appeared at the entrance ramp and called out the
newly named "Outsiders". He told them that they were going to get their
match, and it would be set for Bash at the Beach in Daytona. Bischoff
then said he would tell them the three men who would oppose them on the
next night's Nitro, but Hall was not pleased, and gave Bischoff a punch
in the gut. Nash then jacknifed Bischoff through the stage and the
two left.

For the next few weeks on Nitro the Outsiders would show up, sometimes
as fans who had bought tickets to the event. The two would always be
escorted out by security. Speculation was everywhere on who their third
man was, and we found out...

July 14, 1996, Bash at the Beach in Daytona, Hostile Takeover Match.
The Outsiders met the team of Sting, Lex Luger, and Randy Savage. They
told Mean Gene that they had enough with 2 guys, and did not
need their partner just yet. But
as the match began, Luger took a bad hit from Sting (who was Stinger
Splashing Hall) and was carried out on a strecher. The Outsiders
dominated the match. As Hall was pounding on Savage, out comes Hulk
Hogan, who had come back to WCW a couple of years earlier (in a classic
return match with Ric Flair). Hogan then ripped off his shirt and stood
over a fallen Savage. But, as fate would have it, Hogan legdropped
Savage, to the utter surprize of everyone. Hogan would legdrop Savage
3 times then pinned him, and Hall would count the 1..2..3, giving
the Outsider team the unofficial win. Mean Gene then came to the
ring and conducted this interview...

Mean Gene : Hulk Hogan, excuse me, EXCUSE ME...What in the world are you
thinking?

Hulk Hogan : Mean Gene, the first thing you need to do is to tell these
people to shut up if
you want to hear what I have to say.

MG : I have been with you for so many years, for you to join up with the
likes of these
two men absolutely makes me sick to my stomach. And I think that these
people here and a
lot of other people around the world have had just about enough of this
man, this man
and you want to put yourself in this group, you've got to be kidding me!

HH : Well the first thing you've got to realize brother is this right
here is the future of
wrestling. You can call this, the NEW WORLD ORDER of wrestling brother.
These two
men right here came from a great big organization up north, and everyone
was wondering
who the third man was, well who knows more about that organization than
me brother?

MG : I've been there done that, you have made the wrong decision in my
opinion.

HH: Well let me tell you something, I made that organization a monster,
I made people
rich up there, I made the people that ran that organization rich up
there brother, and when
it came to pass the name Hulk Hogan the man Hulk Hogan became bigger
than the whole
organization brother. Then Billionaire Ted wanted to talk turkey with
Hulk Hogan, well
Billionaire Ted promised me movies brother, Billionaire Ted promised me
millions of
dollars, and Billionaire Ted promised me world caliber matches, and as
far as Billionaire
Ted, Eric Bischoff, and the whole WCW goes, I'm bored brother! That's
why these two
guys here, the so-called outsiders, these are the men I want as my
friends. They're the new
blood of professional wrestling brother, and not only are we going to
take over the whole
wrestling business with Hulk Hogan, and the new blood, the monsters with
me, we will
destroy everyone in our path Mean Gene.

MG : Look at of all this crap in this ring. This is what's in the future
if you want to hang
around with the likes of this man Hall, and this man Nash.

HH : As far as I'm concerned, all this crap in the ring represents these
fans out here. For
two years brother for two years, I held my head high, I did everything
for the charities, I
did everything for the kids, and the reception I got when I came out
here, you fans can
stick it brother! Because if it wasn't for Hulk Hogan you people
wouldn't be here, if it
wasn't for Hulk Hogan Eric Bischoff would still be selling meat from a
truck in
Minneanapolis, and if it wasn't for Hulk Hogan all the Johnny-Come-Latleys
that you see out
here wrestling wouldn't be here. I was selling out the world brother
while they were
bumming gas to put in their car to get to High School. So the way it is
now brother, with
Hulk Hogan and the new world organization of wrestling brother, me and
the new blood
by my side, whatcha gonna do when the new world organization runs wild
on you?
Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do?

MG : Hey, don't touch me I've got a fleet of lawyers, Tony, Bobby, DAMNIT
, back to you!

In the weeks that followed on Nitro we saw the three nWo members
always show up in a black limo. They would come to Nitro and either
interfere in a match or randomly punk people. This led to such acts
as the infamous trailor deed where Nash threw Rey Mysterio Jr. head
first into a WCW broadcast trailor. The three also began their spraypainting
tradition, as they would cover WCW property with the letters "nWo"or
"HH" (Hollywood Hogan). They also began another tradition, the
"The following message has been paid for by the New World Order" announcements.
However, they were always monologues rather than the merchandise commercials
they run these days.

Then came August of 96, the first Hog Wild (now known as Road Wild) where
the nWo got it's first title shot as Hogan challenged the Giant. Hogan
made easy work of Giant with a little help from Nash and Hall. The nWo
had won it's first title. After the match each Outsider held one end
of the belt as Hogan spraypainted "nWo" on it. As soon as the
spraypainting was over, Hogan called out the Booty Man (who is now
known as the Disciple). He came out with a new nWo shirt on as Hogan
gave a speech about how the Booty Man has always been on his side.
After the speech the Outsiders and Hogan surprizingly beat the piss out
of the Booty Man. This was the last we saw of the Booty Man for a while...

Soon came the Clash of the Champions, where Hogan defended the heavyweight
belt against Ric Flair. Hogan breezed through Flair in a very uneventful
match.

For the next couple of weeks, a lot of speculation was brewing about
who the 4th man would be, since it seemed likely that the nWo would be
in the War Games match at the upcoming Fall Brawl. Three weeks before
the PPV, we found out who the fourth man was. During a typical type
nWo beat down (where they punked the Horsemen and the the Dungeon of
Doom, a stable that the Giant was part of), Giant came out to make
the save for his team, or did he? The Giant entered the ring and
chokeslammed Kevin Sullivan. However, this still did not answer the question
of who the fourth man would be in participating at Fall Brawl, because
Giant already had a match against Randy Savage. Not only that, it was
in this week that WCW annoucned that the War Games match at Fall Brawl
would be WCW vs. nWo, and the 4 men from WCW would be Sting, Luger, AA,
and Ric Flair.

The next week we were given the fifth member of the nWo, but
he was never OFFICIALLY announced as the 5th man, Ted DiBiase.
However, DiBiase said he was going to introduce the next man on next week's
Nitro, and that would be the fifth man to join the nWo.
Six days before Fall Brawl all seemed normal, but as Nitro ended
Lex Luger was chasing around ref Nick Patrick (Patrick was being
deemed as nWo by WCW announcers). Patrick led Luger out near the
nWo black limo when Sting appeared from the limo. Sting then attacked
Luger as Nitro went off the air. So, voila, there are the 4 men
to participate in Fall Brawl.

During War Games the nWo team was announced as Hogan/Hall/Nash/Sting,
whereas the WCW team was announced as Luger/AA/Flair/Sting. Sting
DID appear on the side of the nWo, but not the REAL Sting, as this was
the nWo Sting. The real WCW Sting then came out and punked everyone,
WCW and nWo, then left. Team nWo then defeated Team WCW as Lex Luger
was forced to submit to the nWo Sting's Scorpion DeathLock. By winning
this match the nWo won a few rights, mainly an nWo segment to be
aired on WCW Saturday Night. The following night on Nitro, Sting gave
a "screw you" interview. Also on that Nitro we were introduced to the
sixth member of the nWo (really the seventh, but hey, who cares) Syxx.

The next couple of weeks on Nitro the nWo was quiet, introducing
some new members, Vincent, a driver to drive their new nWo nascar, and
Nick Patrick the ref.

The Giant vs. Ric Flair for the US Title was signed, but Flair was
forced out with an injury as the nWo attacked him with lead pipes.
Giant then took possession of the title which he didn't rightfully own.
Meanwhile on the nWo segments on Saturday Night, the Outsiders won the
tag titles. On Nitro the following weeks, the nWo would regularly attack
the Macho Man, so it seemed only fitting that Savage would get a title
shot at Havoc.

At Halloween Havoc, October 25th, Las Vegas, the Outsiders were crowned
WCW Tag Champs by defeating Harlem Heat and, the main event, Hogan defeated
Savage with help from Giant. During the post match celebrating, Roddy Piper
showed up and told Hogan to "shape up". Hogan was not too pleased with
this and the two agreed to have some sort of a match. A few weeks later
on Nitro, Easy-E called the Nitro set and told the announcers that he
visited Piper and, for some unmentionable reason, Piper could NOT have
a match with Hogan. The next week on Nitro the nWo took over the announcers
set and confronted Bischoff, wanting the real story about the Piper situation.
Bischoff told them he could not discuss it. Later that Nitro, before
the last commercial break, Bischoff said he had enough and stormed to the
ring. After the commercial we were shown Bischoff in the ring explaning
why Piper cannot fight Hogan. During this interview, Piper's music plays
and out comes Piper, calling Easy-E a liar. The nWo then enters the
ring and announces their newest member, Eric Bischoff!

The next week on Nitro, Easy-E told all WCW wrestlers that they have
ONE MONTH to convert their contracts to nWo contracts or be enemies 4 life.
Almost IMMEDIATELY we had a taker, Marcus Bagwell, who would later be
known as Buff Bagwell. In the next 2-3 weeks we saw more members, Big
Bubba, M. Wallstreet, and Scott Norton.

The next PPV, World War 3, had only one nWo match, the 60 man battle
royal. The battle royal featured everyone in the nWo. Of the last
7 men, 6 were nWo, as Lex Luger was the lone WCW man remaining. He
eleminated all but Nash and Giant, and, as Nash and Luger got tied
up in the ropes, Giant eliminated them both, which granted Giant
a title shot.

Meanwhile Piper vs. Hogan was signed for Starrcade of 96. It was
dubbed the match of the DECADE (haha, yeah, right). Also at
Starrcade, the Outsiders successfully defended their tag titles against
the Faces of Fear AND the Nasty Boys in a triangle match. A NEW
US Champ was crowned in a trournament when Flair was stripped of the
title due to injuries. The winner? Eddie Guerrero defeated DDP in the
finals for the win. Page had won nearly EVERY match in the tournament
with HELP from Hall and Nash, who had been egging him to join the nWo.
Page kept refusing saying that if they REALLY wanted him they wouldn't
be asking him to be joining NOW, they would've asked him in the beginning.
After DDP had lost the US belt, Mean Gene did an interview. He said
DDP needed to make a choice and DDP quietly said "nWo". Two weeks later
on Nitro Page won a SQUASH match against Brad Armstrong, and the Outsiders
entered the ring and presended him with a black and white nWo shirt.
Page took the shirt and celebrated with the two, then attacked Hall and
tossed Nash out of the ring. DDP then left through the crowd, getting
a HUGE pop and becoming a face.

During the same time, the nWo saw it's first loss in rakings, the Giant.
After losing his match at Starrcade to Luger (the nWo's FIRST loss), he
then failed to save Hogan, who was then defeated by Piper. The Giant
was accused by TRILLIONAIRE Ted DiBiase and Hogan of "Dropping the ball".
The Giant attacked Hogan and DEMANDED a title shot, which he felt
he deserved after winning WW3. Hogan agreed and the two met at the nWo's
first PPV, "Souled Out".

Souled Out featured matches such as "The Battle of the American Males" where
Buff fought Scotty Riggs, Eddie Guerrero fought Syxx in a ladder match,
Masa Hiro Chono's nWo debut against Jericho, and a title defense of
the tag belts as the Outsiders met a returning Steiner Brothers.

But as Starrcade saw the first two losses of the nWo, Souled Out
saw numbers 3 and 4 as Guerrero beat Syxx and the Steiners won the tag
belts. Chono, however, made short work of Jericho and Hogan cruised
past the Giant. DDP, again, refused to join the nWo.

The next night on Nitro, Hall/Nash/Bischoff took over the announcing
booth again. They then demanded that Randy Anderson (the ref who
crowned the Steiners as champs while Nick Patrick was unconsious) come
out. Anderson did and was asked by Bischoff where he got tickets to
be there, and Anderson said he was given the tickets. Bischoff then
said it was ILLEGAL for refs to accept gifts and FIRED Anderson. Bischoff
then awarded the tag belts back to the Outsiders.

Later that night Piper entered the ring with his son to give his farewell
to the fans and to wrestling. Hogan took exception to this and faced
Piper in the ring, saying how sad it was that Piper KNEW he was going
to get punked so he brought his son. When Hogan ordered Piper out of the
ring and out of his sport, Piper cheapshotted Hogan. This setup the
main event for Superbrawl VII, Piper vs. Hogan. Also on the card,
Syxx won the cruiserweight strap with a clean win over Dean Malenko,
the Outsiders lost the tag belts to Luger and Giant and Hogan lost
via countout to Piper in the main event. But the surprize of the
evening was the nWo's newest member, Randy Savage, who aided in Hogan's
keeping the gold.

The following night on Nitro, Bischoff AGAIN awarded the tag titles back
to the Outsiders and Macho attacked DDP, setting up a HUGE feud that
would last most of 97.

Little would happen in the next few weeks as the third annual Uncensored
approached. The main event was Team nWo vs Team WCW vs Team Piper.
Team nWo was comprised of : Hall/Nash/Savage/Hogan, Team WCW :
Luger/Giant/SteinerBros., Team Piper : Piper/Flair/Benoit/McMichaels.
Each team had a special stipulation. If Team nWo won, they would get title
shots and matches WHENEVER they wanted. If Team WCW won, there would be
no more nWo. If Team Piper won, Piper would get a cage match title shot
at Hogan. Team nWo breezed to victory, ensuring they would have
title shots upon demand. However, this was used only once, as
Macho challenged Prince Iakeah (if I spelled that right) for the
TV title (which was the ONLY title the nWo has NEVER held). Iakeah
won by DQ as the entire nWo beat the pineapples out of the dumb kid.

As little happened in February, March through September would be even
more dull. The following PPV, Spring Stampede, featured two nWo
matches, a tag-team match featuring Nash defeating Rick Steiner to
hang on to the tag titles and a match that introduced Dennis Rodman
to the world of the nWo. Rodman helped in the DDP punking at the end
of the Savage/Page falls count anywhere match. Also during this
time, 2 new members joined, Konnan and the Great Muta.

The following PPV, Slamboree, featured one nWo match, as the
original Wolfpac (Hall/Nash/Syxx) met Piper/Flair/Greene.
For some reason WCW thought it would make SENSE for the Pac to job,
because they did. However, the nWo would get their revenge at
the Great American Bash, where Hall and Nash called out Piper
and Flair for a tag match. The Outsiders were rewarded for their
previous jobbing as they won the match and Randy Savage got a clean
pin over DDP in another Page/Savage match. The following night the
nWo saw it's second member to leave, Trillionare Ted DiBiase, who
started managing the Steiner Bros.

The nWo then began plugging it's first birthday. Bash at the Beach
was upon us, a PPV which featured Hogan/Rodman against Luger/Giant.
Luger and Giant got the clean pin, despite Nash dressing as Sting
and attacking Giant with a bat. On 2 different Nitro's,
Sting had beaten Easy-E. This was one of the first times
that Hogan and crew were starting to go against Sting. As the
show closed Sting repelled to the rafters, a place where he would
stay for many months. On the next Nitro, the new
executive of the championship committee, JoJo Dillon, FORCED Hogan
to defend his title against Luger on that Nitro since Hogan hadn't
defended the title in 5 months. Luger sneaked away with the victory
as he racked Hogan and won the title. Luger's title reign lasted
a mere 6 days, as Hogan regained the belt at the next PPV, Road
Wild, thanks to help from the fake Sting. Following the match Hogan
repainted the belt with "nWo" as he had done one year ago.

The next week on Nitro a tear-jerking retirement of Arn Anderson happened
and Curt Hennig joined the horsemen. The following week the nWo came
out and did a parody of this, with Nash dressed as AA. The nWo
parody prompted an nWo/Horsemen Wargames match at Fall Brawl. Team nWo,
consisting of Nash/Buff/Syxx/Konnan met the Four Horsemen, Hennig/McMichaels/Flair/Benoit.
On the night of Fall Brawl it was announced that the nWo had attacked
Hennig, and it wasn't likely he would be able to compete. Hennig
did manage to come out, however, he was wearing a sling on his
right arm. When it was his turn to enter the ring, he took off
the sling, to reveal 2 pairs of handcuffs. He then attacked Ric Flair!
The nWo handcuffed McMichaels and Benoit as Nash ran around with a
microphone asking the 2 horsemen if they would surrender. The 2
Horsemen kept refusing as Hennig dragged Flair to the door of the
cage and propped his head in the door's path, threatening to slam it.
McMichaels, when prompted by Big Kev to "Give up or the man gets
the guillotine", did so. Hennig STILL slammed the door on Flair, causing
serious injury and many stiches. Flair would be out for a couple of
months. The next night on Nitro, Hennig and Nash said it was the death
of the horsemen and Hennig gave Hogan a present, Flair's robe. Hennig
later snagged the US Title from Mongo.

As the nWo began jobbing, the next PPV rolled around, Halloween Havoc.
This featured yet ANOTHER meeting of Savage vs. DDP and Hogan vs. Piper
in a non-title bout. Savage proved to be the MADNESS as he sent DDP out
on a strecher, seriously injuring his kidneys (an injury which has still not
healed). Hogan, however, lost to Piper in a cage match. Three fake
nWo Sting's showed up to try and save Hogan (even though Hogan
kept thinking one was the real Sting), but the real Sting
no-showed. On the next Nitro Hogan came out, frustrated
with Sting always interfering in his matches and Sting's new popularity.
Hogan promised he would sign a Starrcade match with Sting (as that was
what Sting had been wanting from JJ Dillon).

In November the biggest announcement ever came from Eric Bischoff's
mouth, "Bret Hart is joining the nWo". As we know now, that was not the
case, however, for 2 straight weeks on Nitro the nWo came out and sang
"Oh Canada!" in honor of Bret. During this time Easy-E also announced
Rick Rude as the newest nWo member. It was also during this time that
Scott Hall had begun a feud with WCW announcer Larry Zybysko. Bischoff
had gotten into the feud and said he would fight Larry Z at Starrcade,
but only if Larry would put control of Nitro on the line. The nWo even
took over a couple of Nitro's (obviously as a test to see crowd reaction)
during the time between Easy-E's announcement and Starrcade. Also, the
Giant and Kevin Nash had begun a feud over who the "Real Giant" of pro-wrestling
was. Nash and Bischoff both wanted out of their matches but JoJo would
not approve of it.

Starrcade rolls around in December. Bret Hart is named as the special
guest ref for the Easy-E/Zybysko match. It is not known if Bret is nWo
or not at this point, as, during the match, Bret kept enforcing STRICT
rules on Larry while he let Bischoff get away with lots of cheats. Bischoff
strapped a foreign object onto his shoe and kicked Larry, knocking him
out cold. It was at this point that Bret Hart beat up Bischoff and
raised Larry-Z's hand. Also that night Nash no-showed against the Giant,
but Scott Hall stepped in, and made fun of Giant. Hall received a beatdown
for his trouble and Giant demanded that they fight at the next PPV, OR ELSE.
Perhaps the worst part of the entire PPV, Hollywood Hogan lost his heavyweight
title to Sting after Bret Hart interfered on Sting's behalf. This led
into the new year.

The second Nitro in 1998 proved to be the biggest in nWo history. As
JoJo announced stricter fines on all nWo athletes who would break rules,
the Macho Man didn't want to listen. During a match with Lex Luger, Macho
tried to hit him with a chair. However, Easy-E ran out and pulled the
chair from Macho. Macho then closelined Easy-E and tried to hit Luger again.
Hollywood Hogan ran out and prevented this. Macho then got in Hogan's
face. Nash ran out and closelined Macho from behind, and it was THIS event
that will eventually lead to a breakup of the nWo.

The next Nitro even more tension built up between Nash/Hogan and Savage.
It was also on that Nitro when JoJo Dillon outlawed the jacknife powerbomb
from being used as Kevin Nash had injured the Giant with it (at the
previous Souled Out). JoJo then said that any powerbomb used in WCW would
result in that person being taken to jail. Nash disregarded this decree
and jacknifed Ray Traylor later that night. Nash was then escorted out
by police while shouting "Attica, Attica". Also that night Hall fought Luger.
As Luger was racking Hall, Savage attacked Luger with a chair and threw
Hall to the outside. Savage dropped one elbow on Luger but as he was
going for another, Sting made the save. Hogan came down to the ring and
helped Hall up, but neither man nor any other nWo-ite helped Savage as
he layed helpless in the ring. Both Hall and Hogan laughed at Savage
as the show ended.

The next Nitro proved very interesting as Sting fought Savage. Hogan
promised he would not help out Savage in his match, neither would any
nWo-ite. Savage responded by saying there are MANY men in the nWo wanting
to stab Hogan in the back. Later during the match, Hogan DID interfere
in the match, but not on Savage's behalf. Savage easily had the match
won but Hogan broke up the count. Luger then ran down and started beating
on Hogan and Savage. The nWo came out and helped Hogan, but nobody
helped Savage as Luger held him in the torture rack.

As problems continued with Savage, Bret Hart made his return to WCW.
Hogan said he had NOT forgotten about how Hart cost him the nWo title
and he would get revenge. It was at this time that Bryan Adams (former
Crush) would help Hogan get the advantage over Bret and join the nWo.

After the next PPV, the nWo was treated to 2 new members, Big Poppa Pump,
Scott Steiner (who had betrayed his brother, allowing the Outsiders to
get the tag belts) and the Disciple, who was previously known as the Booty
Man. The following week on Nitro, Big Poppa Pump tried getting his brother
into the nWo as well, however Rick refused and, with help from Giant,
viciously attacked Kevin Nash, Buff Bagwell, Scott Steiner, and Konnan.
It was at this time that things started to go downhill for the nWo.
During a Nitro bout against Roddy Piper, Nash ran to the ring and
held the Scotsman for Hollywood. However, Hogan missed Piper and instead
connected with Nash, which sprung the beginning of their rivalry.

The following week on an April 7th, 1998 Nitro, problems arose for
Randy Savage. Apparently he was hit by a speeding Red and Yellow Dodge
Viper, a Viper which Nash claimed Hogan was driving. Hogan often joked
about the run over and clearly said he was driving the car that ran
Savage over. That same night a heavyweight title match was scheduled,
Nash vs. Sting. Nash told Hogan that he would NOT share the title with
him WHEN he won it. During the match Hogan ran-in and attacked Sting,
causing the DQ loss for Nash and preventing him from becoming the next
champ. Nash and Hogan then had to be held apart by their nWo brothers
as everyone was speculating on the breakup of the New World Order.

Another week passed and this time a rematch was scheduled. Nash vs. Sting,
again, but this time JJ Dillion reinstated the jacknife powerbomb
as a legal manuver. Nash was almost defeated until Randy Savage came
to ringside and showed support for Nash by hitting Sting. Nash the
jacknifed the injured Stinger, but BRET HART again ran down and
fought off the nWo. For the second week in a row, Nash was cheated
out of a heavyweight belt. It was about this time that Bret Hart started
saying how much respect he had for Hogan and all that ga-ga. On the next
week's Nitro Hogan called out Bret Hart. Hart came out wearing a "Hogan"
shirt and said how much he respected Hogan. But before he could explain
anything, Randy Savage ran in and began beating on Hogan and Hart. However,
numbers overwhelmed the Madness and Hart eventually put Savage in the
sharpshooter. It was about this time as well that Macho injured his
leg. For two weeks in a row his leg had been beaten and bruised. Also,
during a six man tag, Bryan Adams left Big Poppa Pump and Konnan to fend
for themselves, leaving them. It was clear to both fans and announcers
that all this could only lead to one thing, breakup of the nWo.

On the following Nitro, Nash with Savage and Konnan fought Luger. However,
as Savage and Konnan tried to interfere, many WCW wrestlers including
Sting and Giant ran in and began a beatdown of the three nWo members.
Bryan Adams was about to run down and help out his brothers, but Bret Hart
again came out and held Adams, the man who had recently beaten him down,
back. Hart told Adams to let the WCW guys beat the hell out of Nash/Savage/Konnan,
because, as he said, it was a "beautiful thing". By this time,
the Wolfpack had been formed, a group consisting of Kevin Nash,
Randy Savage, and Konnan. Nash was declared leader by Savage even
though, as Nash claims, "We're all equal in the Pack".

On the following Nitro, Dusty Rhodes came out and announced that, at
the next PPV event (Slamboree), both him and Scott Hall (who was out for
MANY months on personal problems) would be on the side of Kevin Nash.
Rhodes also warned Hogan that Nash would kick his bald ass. However, not
to be outdone, Hogan introduced the world to his newest nWo member, the
Giant. Giant then fought an outraged Kevin Nash, spraypainting nWo on
his back. However, at the next PPV, Scott Hall betrayed Kevin Nash,
causing them to lose the tag belts to Giant and Sting. Again Scott Hall
left wrestling for several months as it was revealed he was going to
be in rehab. It was also very apparent that nWo Hollywood (as Hogan's faction
was now being called) was on top, with more members and the heavyweight
title (which Bret Hart had helped Hollywood Hogan win a couple of weeks
back). It was also during this time that 2 important things happened
to the nWo factions, 1) Bret Hart and Hogan agreed to team together for
the first time against Piper and Macho, 2) Lex Luger joined the Wolfpack.
Luger then became the "recruiter" for the Pack, and his first recruit
was Sting himself. So it became very complicated, Giant with one tag belt
in nWo Hollywood and Sting with one tag belt in nWo Wolfpack. When
Sting defeated Giant at a PPV, Sting chose Kevin Nash as his
tag partner.

On the next week's Nitro, Randy Savage fought DDP in a cage match with
Piper as a guest ref. During the match nWo Hollywood managed to raise
the cage and attack. It was at this time that Savage left the wrestling
world for surgery on his knee, leaving the Wolfpack with only 4
members, Nash/Konnan/Luger/Sting. It was about this time that new feuds
began as Hogan and Dennis Rodman were feuding with DDP and Karl Malone.
Pathetic crap that I won't even go into here. Another ratings grabber
attempt by WCW, but it failed horribly. This led to one of the biggest
yet worst Nitro's in history...

The date, July 7th. There were THREE big major things that happened,
1) Buff Bagwell, who had suffered a severe neck injury and had been
out for several months, returned. In a very touching speech he thanked
everyone and appeared to be done with the nWo, 2) Scott Hall finally
made his return as he had to fight Bill Goldberg, 3) Hollywood Hogan
had to face Goldberg as well, provided Goldberg could defeat the returning
Scott Hall. Well, sad as it is, Goldberg BEAT Hall, then BEAT Hogan, to
win the heavyweight title. On the following Nitro, Hogan blamed Hall
for the loss, and challenged him to a match. Hall said Hogan got HIMSELF
beat and he would beat his ass around the ring. However, this was
all a setup for Nash as Big Sexy would interfere in the match. As he
was about to jacknife Hogan and regain Hall as his best friend, Hall viciously
attacked Nash again, proving to Hogan that Hall was a true black and white
member. Hall then began calling himself "Medium Sexy the Kevin Nash Killer",
and mocked Nash wherever he went. When asked WHY he turned on Nash, Hall
would keep proclaiming that Hogan had the money Hall needed and that
Nash had turned his back on Hall during Hall's personal problems.

On the following Nitro, July 21st from Salt Lake City, Buff Bagwell
fooled everyone and proved he was black and white for life as he
helped Big Poppa Pump injure Rick Steiner. Also that night, Bret Hart,
who was now aligning himself with Hogan on a regular basis, won the
US Title from an injured DDP, and Hall/Giant defeated Nash/Sting to
win the tag belts, again with help from Bret Hart, who distracted
Sting to help his nWo Hollywood team win the tag straps. There was
also some CRAP with Jay Leno which I won't even get into here (although
the Late Show became funny, with a midget old man dressing as Hogan.
Classic stuff...). On the next Nitro, it was apparent that the
Pack was trying to get DDP to join, as he fought Hogan and they helped
DDP. However, the Pack became overwhelmed with nWo Hollywood members, and
Goldberg then ran out. Goldberg cleared the ring, however, he was met
with a chokeslam from Giant. It was also near this time that Bret Hart
lost the US Title to Luger, however, he regained it on an August
Thunder. Luger held the strap for a mere 3 days before Hart took it back.

The next week's Nitro proved to be crap. The WARRIOR (minus Ultimate), who
was rumored to make his return, finally did, and, during his 9184938219432891
minute long speech, he declared he would do away with HOLLYWOOD Hogan
and return HULK Hogan to the world. He said Hogan was once an honorable
man and would make sure he went back to his good ways. It was also
during this time that Stevie Ray joined nWo Hollywood, adding to it's
growing roster while the Pack remained at 4 with an injured Macho.

This pretty much leads us up to where we are now. At the last Havoc,
Kevin Nash and Scott Hall's feud was STILL GOING, and Bret Hart and
Sting's feud was also STILL GOING. Hollywood Hogan defeated Warrior, and welcomed
Horace, his real life nephew, as the newest nWo Hollywood member.
Right now the nWo is only a SHELL of what it once was and will never be
the same until the Wolfpack and nWo Hollywood merge once again and return
to the original plan of a hostile takeover, which has taken over 2 1/2 years
to accomplish.