Hog Wild (1996)

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Hog Wild 1996 was the first Hog Wild event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 11th August 1996

## Background

The main match heading into the show is New World Order vs Team WCW in a wargames match, if NWO win they become WCW's owners. At Nitro 100 the most shocking WCW moment ever happened as WWF's MITB holder Razor Ramon and Intercontinental Champion Diesel debuted and attacked Sting and Lex Luger, Ramon cashed in his WWF MITB contract as he defeated Sting to become WCW Heaviweight champion. Hall and Nash renamed themselves and announced they were invading WCW and taking it over, at Uncensored Hulk Hogan betrayed WCW as he announced himself as the third man in the New World Order. NWO have made it pretty clear that they want to own WCW, they have added new WWF talent like HHH and X-Pac(now Syxx), they challenged WCW to get 5 people to face them in a war games match, Team WCW will consist of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Randy Savage, The Giant and returning Ricky Steamboat

Sting has been out of action since Uncensored where NWO led their big ambush. NWO have proclaimed that Sting hasn't showed up in all of these months because he's part of New World Order, he just doesn't wanna admit it yet, Ric Flair and Arn Anderson have started to believe but Lex Luger refused to believe it until Sting attacked him with a scorpion death drop. Luger was furious and challenged Sting for having also betrayed WCW

At Starrcade 1994, Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit debuted in a match against each other for NO1 contendership of the CW title, they had an amazing match which Eddie won. Fast forward 2 years later and both men are now fighting for the United States Championship as Chris Benoit defeated Jeff Jarrett to become NO1 contender

Steiner Brothers realized that they were cashed in on every single time, it happened in 1990, 1991, 1994 and 1995. They decided that they would break the curse as they became the CITL holders at Bash at the Beach, they decided to have a tag team title match against HHH and Nash and won the titles becoming the first ever team to hold both the briefcase and the titles at the same time. Harlem Heat challenged them only for the briefcases and Steiner Bros were cocky because of their achievement so they accepted completely forgetting about the curse

CW Champion Dean Malenko wanted the best of the best to wrestle him so he challenged his old friend and new WCW signing Rey Misterio Jr

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, Jushin Liger and his protege Psicosis had a tag match against Public Enemy where if they won, Liger would be included in the CW title match at Bash at the Beach, after Jericho took Psicosis and gave Liger the decision of whether he wins that match or he saves Psicosis from injury, Liger chose the first as he won the match and tried to save Psicosis afterwards but it was too late as Jericho had already injured him. Jericho called Liger a complete egocentrical maniac and Liger was tired of this rookie so he challenged him to a match

## Details

* Nobody cares or knows who Rey is, Malenko shakes hands with him but puts his hand on the floor and stomps on it. Rey gets over immediatly during this match due to his amazing moves and everyone gets on his side by the end as he shockingly wins the title in his debut
* Right after Harlem Heat win the briefcase, they shockingly cash in as everything was taken from Steiner Bros in 2 minutes
* Jericho puts a chair on Liger's leg and is about to break it when The Great Muta returns but Jericho does it anyways ending the match in a DQ and runs away
* Sting seems a lot worse during his match and a lot smaller, Sting locks in the scorpion death lock when the camera pans to THE REAL STING ON THE RAFTERS, he climbs down the rafters towards the ring, NWO Sting lets go of the hold and gets scorpion death dropped by Real Sting to end the match in a DQ. Luger wants to shake hands with Real Sting but Sting puts his baseball bat on his neck as a sign of hatred