Superbrawl VIII

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Superbrawl 8 was the eighth Superbrawl event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 14th February 1998

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Goldberg defending his United States Championship against Kevin Nash and HHH. Kevin Nash was the first NWO member to return after NWO's embarassing loss and removal from power at Starrcade 1997 as he defeated Eddie Guerrero, Meng and Buff Bagwell to become NO1 contender to Goldberg's US title. HHH was threatening to walk out of WCW because there was no point anymore without NWO dominating, his mentor Hollywood Hogan said he could manage to get him a title shot, owner of WCW Arn Anderson forced Hogan to go through a 5 men gauntlet to add HHH to this match, Nash was pissed at this but Hogan said it would be even better to have 2 NWO members in the match, less margin for error. Hogan won the 5 men gauntlet by last defeating Kevin Nash himself and HHH was added into the match

Sting will defend his WCW Heaviweight Championship against Scott Steiner. Scott Steiner was about to become WCW heaviweight champion at Halloween Havoc when Randy Savage betrayed him and The Resistance as he joined NWO and made sure Hollywood Hogan won, at Starrcade the leader of The Resistance Sting defeated Hogan to finally end NWO's reign at the top. Steiner won a battle royal with timed intervals to become NO1 contender and was pissed when he was shown footage that Sting was on the rafters during Halloween Havoc but he didn't do anything to help, he blamed Sting that he wasn't the leader of The Resistance to take down NWO, he was just there to get another easy world title reign. Sting revealed the truth that Arn Anderson was behind it all and told him to not help Scott as at that time all of The Resistance were merely parts of a plan and not the ones who were supposed to win the world title which pissed off Scott even more

After Eddie's loss to Kevin Nash in a fatal 4 way, he approached Arn Anderson asking him what they would do about the NWO situation but Arn said while NWO is not gonna dominate anymore, they're still regular members of the roster and there's nothing Arn can do about Eddie losing. Eddie shockingly challenged him to a match as he "felt like something wasn't right and he should beat up Arn", when the truth came up that The Resistance were merely parts of a plan to make NWO weak for Sting to take the ultimate blow, Eddie was as pissed as Scott and finally realized why he wanted to beat up Arn, he never wanted them to succeed, he just wanted to get to the ownership spot by using them

Ric Flair lost a career threatening match to Curt Hennig at Starrcade 1997 and was forced to retire but said the Flair legacy would continue with David Flair's official debut tonight, there have been segments with them training together but it's unknown who will face the rookie

Konnan kicked out Lex Luger out of The Mob after his constant losses, Rick Rude started managing Luger as he wanted to get him out of this slump, he hadn't won a match since november 1996 and he wanted to end this, Rude challenged the leader of The Mob to a match, Luger slapped Konnan during a segment in a big disrespect to him so the rest of The Mob members locked Luger in the corner as Konnan put his foot on Rude's neck and threatened to paralyze him, he didn't do it but it served as a warning to Luger to not mess with The Mob

Ultimo Dragon left WCW and the title was vacated, a 10 men battle royal was made with the last 4 men standing would have to team up against each other with whoever gets the pinfall becoming the new CW champion. Rey Mysterio Jr, Dean Malenko, The Great Muta and Jushin Liger ended up standing on top, Rey teamed up with Malenko and Muta teamed up with Liger but in the leadup to this match, Muta brutalized Rey's leg so he's out of the match and Malenko will now have to find a different teammate

## Results

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## Details

* David Flair makes his PPV debut challenging anyone in the back, out comes the man we saw on the timed battle royal that still doesn't have a name
* The returning Chris Jericho is Dean Malenko's teammate, Jericho pins Liger to finally become CW champion
* In the main event, Hogan shockingly knocked out Nash with the US belt and told HHH to pin the son of a bitch, HHH looks at his kliq teammate AND PROCEEDS TO PEDIGREE HIS MENTOR HOGAN, he goes towards Goldberg but gets speared and Goldberg retains