Great American Bash (1998)

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Great American Bash 1998 was the eighth Great American Bash event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 4th July 1998

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Sting defending his WCW Heaviweight Championship against Hollywood Hogan. After almost a year and a half of buildup, at Starrcade 1997 Sting shocked the world as he squashed Hogan in 1 minute and 43 seconds to become WCW Heaviweight champion and for NWO to be forced out of ownership. Due to this loss, NWO's tensions started rising and they quickly all turned on each other as they formed 3 different sides of NWO: Hollywood, Wolfpac and Chaos. Due to the new WCW owner Arn Anderson not wanting NWO to dominate anymore, he put up a rule where any NWO member could only start getting world title shots again starting in july, at Uncensored Hogan defeated Kevin Nash and Scott Hall in a triple threat to become the first man that would get a title shot. Sting called out the fact that Hogan was pissed at him because he was always number 2 when Sting is around, it happened in WWF from 1987 to 1989 with Hogan only rising up once Sting left for WCW, it happened when Hogan arrived to WCW right when Sting was injured from 1993 to 1995 but as soon as Sting returned he took his spot as number 1 back, and it happened again from 1996 to 1997 as Sting chose not to wrestle and lurk in the shadows for the perfect time to strike, as soon as he returned he ended Hogan's world title reign, Sting declares that he will always be WCW's number 1 and better than Hogan.

At Bash at the Beach, Los Guerreros cashed in and defeated Steiner Brothers to become tag team champions, as they're all former members of The Resistance they didn't want no beef with each other so they agreed to a rematch and after that they're done fighting with each other

Chris Jericho felt like no CW was at his level so he decided to hold a CW invitational here tonight in a 6 men battle royal with the winner facing Jericho at Road Wild

One year ago, Goldberg defeated Perry Saturn in a streak vs streak match to end Saturn's undefeated streak, Goldberg still hasn't lost a match and is now United States champion so Saturn has challenged him to a rematch tonight, he admits he wasn't ready a year ago but now he is as Goldberg seems like the only man on WCW that doesn't yet respect Saturn's stable The Mob

Hart Family made a huge jump from WWF to WCW and immediatly made rivals in NWO Hollywood, due to this Hart Family decided they wanted to join either NWO Chaos or NWO Wolfpac but it would be up for grabs in 2 matches: if NWO Chaos won their first match, they would join them; if that didn't happen, they would face NWO Wolfpac, if neither team could beat them they would join whoever did the best against them. Tonight, they face NWO Chaos

## Details

* Rick Rude says that Los Guerreros or Steiner Brothers better be ready because Luger and Barbarian WILL cash-in tonight
* Rey stares down the masked man as the last 2 participants and leaves the ring as he eliminates himself, the masked man unmasks revealing himself as the returning Dean Malenko, Malenko beats up Jericho
* Steiner Bros immediatly run away as they win the titles because they know(by tradition) they're about to be cashed in on, Lex Luger attacks Scott on the crowd and Barbarian ambushes Rick from the other side as they put them back in the ring
* As soon as they get in the ring, Scott rolls up The Barbarian as Steiners have retained and for the first time ever CITL holders failed to win their cashin
* Hogan hits the leg drop on Sting when Vampiro suddenly attacks Hogan and hits him with a chair telling him to not mess with Chaos as he reveals himself as one of its members