Halloween Havoc (1997)

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Halloween Havoc 1997 was the ninth Halloween Havoc event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 25th October 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Hollywood Hogan defending his WCW Heaviweight Championship against Scott Steiner. Arn Anderson introduced The Resistance as a stable to take down New World Order, at Great American Bash Randy Savage, Steiner Brothers and Los Guerreros defeated New World Order in a war games match for The Resistance to win world title shots for every single member, sadly every single member ended up being defeated in 1 on 1 action against Hogan and only one man is left for the challenge: Scott Steiner. Steiner and Hogan have a history together as Steiner has held the NWO TV Championship since november 1996 and Hogan has tried taking it away but Steiner has managed to defeat Hogan clean to retain the title, they have been going back and forth on wins but Hogan claims that Steiner is the future of WCW, he's just on the wrong path and he will teach him a lesson tonight as he completely ends The Resistance's chances of becoming world champions

This feud between The Resistance and New World Order has been the defining feud of 1997, Arn took advantage of Hogan being pissed to challenge him to a 4 vs 4, the winners would go on to book the next 4 weeks of WCW programming, Hogan accepted and announced the men fighting in NWO's behalf would be Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, HHH and The Giant while Arn announced his men would be Los Guerreros, Jeff Jarrett and Arn Anderson himself coming out of retirement. Hall and HHH have been with problems trying to fight each other as HHH is just frustrated in his WCW position and is taking the blame on 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 1996, Dean Malenko introduced his old friend Rey Misterio Jr to WCW in a cruiserweight championship match against him, Rey shockingly won and Malenko quickly turned on his friend but after this loss Malenko quickly fell off the ranks and was no longer "the king of the cruiserweights" Rey tried to bring back Malenko to his side so he could start his rise yet again, they managed to defeat Public Enemy at Road Wild 1997 and Rey felt like Malenko was back to his good days so challenged him to a match at Fall Brawl for NO1 contendership to the CW championship which Malenko won so he'll face Ultimo Dragon here tonight

Bobby Eaton was going to have a cruiserweight match when Eric Bischoff announced he weighed more than 230 lbs so he couldn't be in it, Eaton was pissed and trained hard to get under 230 lbs again, he got to it and was gonna face Ultimo Dragon but Billy Kidman attacked him and replaced him in the match. Eaton was set to have a match against Kidman but yet again he weighed more than 230 lbs. He announces he has trained to get to 227 lbs and challenges Kidman here tonight

The Great Muta and Jushin Liger recently turned heel as they felt disrespected by the new wave of cruiserweights saying they were the pioneers of the division but now they're going back to the way they were before 1995, they wanted to get rid of the waste of the CW division and will start tonight against Dancing Fools

## Results

Other participants: Lex Luger, Curt Hennig, Ric Flair, Diamond Dallas Page, Randy Savage and Syxx

## Details

* The show begins with updates on hardcore champion Ernest Miller as they show Ernest escaped prison on wednesday, but during his escape he was rolled up by a prisoner and Ernest rolled him back up, this continued on so it was skipped forward and Heenan announced that due to all the continuous rollups, the unnamed prisoner won the title a total of 35 times while Ernest is now a 36 time hardcore champion
* Ric Flair and Curt Hennig eliminate each other
* After Lex Luger is eliminated, Konnan is disappointed and sends Billy Kidman to eliminate Goldberg but Goldberg throws him over the top rope
* Ultimo Dragon wants to shake hands with Malenko after the match and Malenko does so completing his face turn
* Ernest Miller is backstage, he has finally arrived but as soon as he arrives he gets ambushed by Hugh Morrus who wins the title, Goldberg's theme hits as we get a long shot from Hugh until Goldberg's locker room as he makes his big entrance for his first ever title match
* This is the last shot of The Resistance winning the titles so everyone is pissed as Scott Steiner does his german suplex twice and Randy Savage elbow drops him and two sweets Hogan betraying WCW and The Resistance

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