World War 3 (1997)

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World War 3 1997 was the third World War 3 event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 22nd November 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is the 60 men World War 3 match and for the first time ever it'll be for NO1 contendership to the WCW Heaviweight Championship with the winner getting his title match at Starrcade

Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, HHH and The Giant defeated The Resistance at Halloween Havoc in a match where the winners would individually book the next 4 weeks of Nitro. Scott Hall was first as he immediatly made a match between him and WCW Heaviweight champion Hollywood Hogan at tonight's event, in the following weeks Nash, HHH and The Giant would all add themselves to the match to make a big fatal five way. Hogan says he made NWO and he made each of their careers so he will put them all down like a dog for trying to take his title

Jushin Liger and Muta have recently turned heel and are trying to take care of the waste of the Cruiserweight division, both men want to win the title a second time so they challenged Rey and Malenko to a tag match with the winners getting CW champion Ultimo Dragon at Starrcade in a triple threat

SuperMortal Machines and Four Horsemen started feuding with a 4 on 4 in an episode of Nitro where Four Horsemen won, HHH booked Mortis vs Booker T and whoever won would face Goldberg in a handicap match for the US title, Mortis won so it will be a 4 on 1 handicap match tonight for the title

Randy Savage betrayed WCW and The Resistance by joining NWO and was quickly attacked by Sting, Savage was tired of Sting popping up whenever he wanted and challenged him to a match tonight, for him to get out of the shadows and end his vacation(Sting hasn't had a match since NWO's arrival in april 1996)

## Results

Participants by order of elimination: Bobby Eaton, Konnan, Lex Luger, Johnny Grunge, Mortis, Wrath, Kevin Nash(GIANT), Steven Regal, Chavo Guerrero, Psicosis, Ultimo Dragon, Rey Misterio Jr and Rick Steiner

Participants by order of elimination: Riggs, Randy Savage, Rocco Rock, Chris Adams, Roddy Piper, Chris Benoit, Booker T, Stevie Ray, Juventud Guerrera, Billy Kidman, Kensuke Sasaki, Buff Bagwell(GIANT) and Scott Hall

Participants by order of elimination: HHH, Syxx, Hugh Morrus, Disco Inferno, Eddie Guerrero, Diamond Dallas Page, La Parka, The Great Muta, Fit Finlay, Scott Steiner, Perry Saturn, Jeff Jarrett and Jushin Liger

## Details

* Liger and Muta start using chairs against them and end the match in a DQ
* Randy Savage is here to see if Sting accepts his challenge but nobody shows up, Jeff Jarrett shows up instead to accept his challenge
* Meng makes a surprise return from his october 1996 suspension as still the ECW Heaviweight champion but he shows up without the belt
* The match looks to be set when out comes Arn Anderson who says everyone has waited a long time and he understands everyone's frustration with him especially Eddie but a promise is promise, he introduces the last man entering WW3 and THE LEADER OF THE RESISTANCE STING HAVING HIS FIRST MATCH SINCE APRIL 1996
* Chris Benoit eliminates Randy Savage almost immediatly who decides to take revenge and go to the third ring just to eliminate DDP
* Piper chokes out Sasaki in the ring to win the hardcore title
* Buff Bagwell and Scott Hall eliminate each other and it's down to Curt Hennig and Ric Flair who only fought themselves during the match
* Sting goes crazy in the third ring as he eliminates all 12 men in under 5 minutes, the only people he didn't eliminate was Eddie Guerrero(who eliminated himself out of respect for his leader) and DDP who was eliminated by Savage
* Flair eliminates Meng to get a heel boo in around 20 seconds but Sting is right behind him and scorpion death drops him, Sting eliminates Flair to win the match within a minute, Sting taunts his baseball bat to Hogan who stays silent in the commentator's table

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