World War 3 (1998)

## World War 3-NWO Civil War (1998)

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World War 3-NWO Civil War 1998 was the fourth World War 3 event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 14th November 1998

## Background

The main match heading into the show a wargames match between NWO Wolfpac vs NWO Hollywood vs NWO Chaos with the winners being the only remaining New World Order and will get all the title shots at Starrcade. After Hogan's loss at Starrcade to Sting, Arn Anderson took over as owner of WCW as NWO completely lost their powers. After months of heat and dissension between them, at Superbrawl VIII everything fell apart for NWO as during a US title triple threat between Goldberg, HHH and Kevin Nash, Hollywood Hogan attacked Nash with the US belt so his protege HHH could get the easy win but HHH responded with a pedigree to Hogan. HHH decided to side with his kliq buddies but Hogan teamed with Savage and The Giant, Scott Hall came out making a huge decision as he teamed up with former NWO member Curt Hennig and said he didn't want to be with those kliq idiots anymore, HHH landed the first punch on Hall as the NWO Civil Wars began which were the complete main focus of 1998 WCW as eventually almost all of the roster joined a side of NWO with Hollywood being for the heels, Wolfpac being for the faces and Chaos being for the inbetweeners, Arn Anderson announced a points system to see which side of NWO would have the most points by the end of World War 3 and those would be the winners of the NWO Civil War but this quickly went to shit as a lot of matches ended in no contests and DQ's with brawls between every NWO. Arn had enough and cancelled the point system instead announcing the first ever 3 team wargames match, here's how every wrestler connects into it:

NWO Hollywood:

Hollywood Hogan-At Uncensored 1996, Hogan was the third man on Kevin Nash and Scott Hall's WCW invasion as he leg dropped Randy Savage and turned his back on WCW, he was always classified as the leader of the group which pissed off Nash and Hall a lot of times, he mentored HHH but was eventually betrayed by him, he lost to Sting in under 2 minutes at Starrcade which caused all of the NWO to lose their ownership powers

The Giant-After months of trying to destroy Hulkamania, he finally beat Hogan at Starrcade 1995 which was the last time we saw Hogan until Uncensored 1996 where he turned heel and formed NWO, he went on a feud against this new Hollywood Hogan but lost and at Halloween Havoc he attacked Roddy Piper joining NWO "if you can't beat em, join em" The Giant has been Hogan's loyal sidekick since then

Randy Savage-Possibly the most shocking defection from WCW to NWO, Randy Savage along with Arn Anderson seemed like the true leading forces to take down New World Order as Arn Anderson formed The Resistance, all of The Resistance would eventually get world title shots against Hogan and Savage was the first one to lose, the last man getting the title shot was Scott Steiner and Randy Savage shockingly attacked Steiner turning his back on WCW after months of Hogan trying to get him to join their group. Randy Savage and another member of Hollywood Konnan have recently feuded due to Konnan almost beating up Miss Elizabeth during a match but Hogan wants them both in their A game

Konnan-In 1997, Konnan formed The Mob immediatly demanding respect from all of WCW's roster and he would eventually manage to make deals and get respect out of everyone including owner of WCW Arn Anderson who he made an unknown deal with to keep The Mob in WCW, there was a big storyline to see who The Mob would choose as their side of New World Order and we had a bunch of segments with Nash, Hall or Hogan helping out The Mob to get them to join them, eventually Konnan made the decision of joining NWO Hollywood

The Great Muta-A wildpick for this match, Muta has been on WCW since its inception in 1989, him and Jushin Liger had recently turned heel and helped Hollywood Hogan become the first NO1 contender to the world title after NWO had ended, Muta has a lot of former history with opponents on this match

NWO Wolfpac:

Scott Hall-At Nitro 100, Hall was involved in the most shocking WCW moment ever as he debuted and cashed in his WWF Money in the Bank briefcase defeating Sting and becoming WCW Heaviweight champion as he declared this was an invasion, Hall's role and importance within the NWO would slowly decrease as he lost the title and Hogan became the most featured talent which pissed Hall off, when Nash and HHH made the decision of splitting apart from Hogan, they expected their Kliq buddy to tag along with them but Hall wanted nothing to do with them both(due to a feud he had with HHH in 1997) and instead decided to align himself with former NWO member Curt Hennig

Curt Hennig-Hennig came into WCW in 1997 and won the WCW Heaviweight title joining New World Order but he was kicked out of the group just 4 months later, he crawled his way back to gain the respect of people backstage and eventually joined Scott Hall who was the only man who still kept in touch with him

Meng-Meng was stuck in a midcarder status from 1994 to 1996 after his huge first year, this pissed off Meng to the point where he signed a non exclusive deal with both WCW and ECW so he could work both shows as Meng got back all his popularity in ECW and eventually returned to WCW signing an exclusive deal again with them, Meng started superkicking people from NWO Hollywood as Scott Hall announced the 3rd member of Wolfpac was Meng

Rob Van Dam-RVD made an immediate impact debuting at Fall Brawl and winning a 10 men war as he became the first ever extreme champion managed by Paul Heyman, Hall made an offer for RVD to join them and RVD attacked Hogan to reveal his inclusion within NWO Wolfpac

Sting-The most confusing man in this match, ever since 1996 Sting's sole goal has been to destroy every part of New World Order, in 1998 he was pissed his world title reign was a bust as his matches always ended in interference due to this civil war and Sting declared that he would destroy every NWO member in sight, Hall tried to tell him they were the good guys but Sting was blinded by his hatred, in a swerve on the last Nitro Sting showed up on the closing segment as he revealed an NWO Wolfpac shirt and went to town on Hollywood and Chaos

NWO Chaos:

Kevin Nash-At Nitro 100, Nash was also part of the most shocking WCW moment as right when Scott Hall showed up on the stage, he jumped the barricade(with the Intercontinental title) and attacked Sting and Lex Luger as they both declared this was an invasion, Nash was the giant of the group but mostly involved in the tag division along with HHH, Hogan turned on him and HHH turned on Hogan to join his Kliq buddy in this war

HHH-HHH made his WCW debut 1 month after NWO's arrival as he immediatly joined them, Hollywood Hogan took an interest to him and started mentoring him but after HHH turned on Hogan, all he's wanted to do is beat Hollywood Hogan clean and he's going into this match with those goals

Bret Hart-Hart Family debuted on WCW in may and started a feud with NWO Hollywood, Bret Hart decided that they should join either NWO Chaos or NWO Wolfpac to take down Hollywood, they eventually joined Chaos although Jim Neidhart would turn on them to join NWO Hollywood and Davey Boy Smith decided to quit and go to NWO Wolfpac, Bret wants revenge not just for NWO Hollywood ruining his debut but also because they ruined his family and split them apart

Vampiro-Vampiro's main objective in WCW was to crush everyone's dreams, Nash thought it'd be good to have someone like that within the group but for him to join, they would have to crush someone's dreams within NWO Chaos, this happened as Stevie Ray was forced to turn on his brother Booker T, Vampiro joined beating up Hollywood Hogan and ensuring that he wouldn't become WCW Heaviweight Champion

Scott Steiner-Steiner Brothers completely refused to join any side of NWO after their struggle in 1997 with The Resistance, Kevin Nash announced that one of his promises if he became WCW's co-owner would be to fire Sting so Scott Steiner turned on his brother and joined NWO Chaos as he felt like Sting was the most corrupt man in WCW history and needed to go down

The new Four Horsemen debuted in late 1996 which consisted of DDP, Steven Regal, Chris Benoit and Goldberg, Goldberg eventually won the WCW Heaviweight title which got to his head as he turned on all of the Four Horsemen, he knocked out DDP at Halloween Havoc and wants Regal here tonight, it is rumored that this will be Regal's last match as he's WWF bound

The rest of the show is all NWO Civil War triple threats between members of each side

## Details

* Due to a coin toss, Vampiro will be kicking off the match and second is Curt Hennig, they have a decent match, nothing too special, out comes MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE and he immediatly goes towards Hennig beating him to the ground, Savage goes for an elbow drop and Vampiro does a superkick to Savage as he was diving, out comes Kevin Nash to give advantage to NWO Chaos, Savage and Hennig are both down so Nash and Vampiro take advantage beating them both up, Hennig and Savage begin to counter it AND THEY TEAM UP AGAINST NWO CHAOS FORMING AN UNLIKELY ALLIANCE, OUT COMES MENG AND HE'S GOT A CHAIR, he superkicks Savage immediatly and Hennig does his own elbow drop against Savage while Savage had a chair on his stomach.
* Next man to come out is Muta and of course he doesn't enter through the door instead climbing up the cage, NWO Chaos and NWO Wolfpac are beating each other up, they see Muta up there and simply slide off as Muta moonsaults 20 feet into nothing, next man to come out is NWO Chaos's Bret Hart, he taunts a bit on the stage WHEN BOOKER T ATTACKS HIM BOOKER T SENDS HIM ONTO HIS OWN CAGE AND TARGETS HIS LEG INJURING HIM, BRET HART HAS TO BE STRETCHERED OUT AND HE IS OUT OF THIS MATCH, Nash is pissed in the ring and that leads to Savage chairshotting him in the head and he starts bleeding.
* Out comes STING COMING TO BLOWS WITH EVERYONE HE FINDS AND TEAMING UP WITH HENNIG, next one is NWO Hollywood's The Giant, he puts Great Muta on his back and Muta dives off of it onto Meng, out comes HHH to get some needed advantage for NWO Chaos but it's not enough as The Giant, Muta and Savage now dominate, out comes Rob Van Dam as only Giant, Muta and Savage are standing in the ring, RVD goes to the gorilla position, this goes on for a minute as Giant, Muta and Savage continue dominating, RVD COMES OUT WITH A CART FULL OF WEAPONS AND DROPS THEM ALL ON THE CAGE, AS NWO HOLLYWOOD IS DISTRACTED BY THAT, RVD IS CLIMBING UP THE CAGE AND SENDS A CHAIR FLYING RIGHT ONTO THE GIANT'S HEAD AND JUMPS TOWARDS SAVAGE AND MUTA, RVD and Meng have fun with weapons.
* OUT COMES HOLLYWOOD HOGAN and he gets some blows in, next up is Scott Steiner and he starts dealing some suplexes, next is NWO Wolfpac's leader Scott Hall and quickly out comes the last man in the match, Konnan but he orders his theme to hit and for The Mob to come out so they can do their usual big entrance as Konnan is wiped down, as soon as he gets in the door, NASH BIG BOOTS HIM OFF AND LOCKS THE CAGE, KONNAN HAS NO WAY IN BUT UP, Konnan starts ordering The Mob to break that cage door but no one is able to do it, NWO Wolfpac are the ones with advantage here for a while when Hogan manages to hulk up, he picks up HHH and does a gorilla press right onto the cage, THE CAGE BREAKS OPEN, KONNAN ENTERS THE MATCH.
* NWO Hollywood manage to take some advantage and Savage elbow drops Hall, he starts pinning him WHEN KONNAN STOPS HIM WANTING TO PIN HIM HIMSELF, Savage and Konnan argue and Hogan screams with both of them, they turn back as Vampiro dives off Nash's shoulders onto the 3 of them, RVD starts going up top to the cage, The Giant follows him trying to take him down by grabbing his leg but quickly both are on top of the cage, The Giant grabs him on a choke when RVD starts kicking his gut, he gets a chair that was on top of the cage AND CLOCKS IT ON THE GIANT'S HEAD, MULTIPLE TIMES UNTIL THE GIANT FALLS OFF THE CAGE AND THE GIANT GOES FLYING RIGHT ONTO ALL OF NWO HOLLYWOOD ABSOLUTELY CRUSHING THEM IN THE PROCESS.
* It is now NWO Wolfpac vs Nash, Vampiro and Scott Steiner as HHH is still dead outside of the ring and Bret is injured, Vampiro jumps on the ropes and so does Sting AND BOOM STING DOES A DDT IN MIDAIR RIGHT ON THE MIDDLE SIDE BETWEEN THE 2 RINGS, MENG POWERBOMBS NASH and the NWO civil wars end with Hall doing a razor's edge to Scott onto the cage, RVD with a chairshot to the head, Hennig doing a perfectplex, Meng doing a samoan headbutt and Sting doing a scorpion death lock on Steiner AND HE TAPS OUT, THE NWO CIVIL WARS HAVE ENDED WITH THE RESISTANCE'S STING MAKING THE RESISTANCE'S SCOTT STEINER TAP OUT