Halloween Havoc (1996)

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Halloween Havoc 1996 was the eighth Halloween Havoc event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 27th October 1996

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Eric Bischoff vs Roddy Piper for WCW ownership. At Nitro 100, Hall and Nash made their debut as they attacked and injured Eric Bischoff and Hall became WCW Heaviweight champion, at Hog Wild NWO became owners of the company by defeating Team WCW in a war games match. Eric Bischoff made his return and promised he would end NWO and take ownership back when Roddy Piper made his shocking debut as he showed footage of Bischoff celebrating at home when NWO won at Hog Wild and that only meant 1 thing, Bischoff never stopped being owner because Bischoff sent Hogan, Hall and Nash to revitalize WCW, Bischoff is NWO. Bischoff smiled as NWO beat down Piper. Piper said he wasn't here to be a wrestler as his days for that are over, he wants to become owner. Bischoff said he'd only do that if Piper could defeat him in a match

After NWO beat Team WCW, their first ownership rule was prohibiting the team WCW members to have matches on PPV's, the only one who could have PPV matches would be the NWO TV champion which started with Arn Anderson but then Ric Flair won it from him as he cheated to win. Randy Savage wanted to get rid of that dumb rule and Nash accepted if they could beat him in a 3 on 3 match so tonight it'll be Savage, Arn Anderson and Ric Flair vs Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall

At Hog Wild, Steiner Brothers were holders of both the tag titles and the CITL briefcase, Harlem Heat defeated them and won the CITL briefcase and immediatly cashed in afterwards as they became tag champions and Steiner Bros lost everything in 2 minutes. They got their rematch at Fall Brawl in a fatal 4 way for the tag titles and won them back, Harlem Heat will get their rematch and final match against Steiner Bros tonight

At Hog Wild, Dean Malenko introduced Rey Misterio Jr. to WCW in a match against him, Rey shocked the world and became CW champion against his old friend, Malenko was pissed as the crowd completely turned on him and supported Rey. Rey defeated Malenko in a rematch at Fall Brawl and accepted one last match against him which would be a ladder match

Chris Jericho was eliminated by Jushin Liger in an 8 men battle royal to determine the NO1 contender to the CW championship, Jericho started trashing on Liger and all masked wrestlers saying that ever since Muta joined Liger, Muta hasn't been seen on TV so Liger is using these masked wrestlers to take them down. He injured Liger's protege Psicosis after Liger failed to protect him and had a match against him at Hog Wild, he put a chair on Liger's leg but Muta returned to try and save him but he failed as Jericho injured Liger anyways. Liger would make his return and Jericho challenged both him and Muta to a tag match as he would get a very special tag partner

## Results

Other participants: Syxx, The Giant, Chris Benoit, Ultimo Dragon, Steven Regal and HHH

## Details

* Arn Anderson attacks Flair after the match, Hogan offers Arn an NWO shirt and Arn spinebusters him
* Chris Jericho's partner is some guy no one knows who it is, Jericho says that Liger might think he doesn't know who this is but he's simply unmasked, IT'S PSICOSIS. Psicosis said Liger would protect him and he believed his ass and stood there with a broken leg for 3 months, Psicosis slaps Liger on the mouth
* The main event has a lot of interferences by NWO, DDP, Randy Savage, Eddie Guerrero, even Ultimo Dragon showed up. In the ending NWO has gotten rid of everyone but out comes The Giant and Lex Luger to get rid of them but they also proceed to beat up Piper as they have officially joined NWO

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