Road Wild (1998)

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Road Wild 1998 was the third Road Wild event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 15th August 1998

## Background

The main match heading into the show is the NWO Civil Wars gauntlet match. 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. More and more members of the roster started joining all 3 sides of NWO as Hall, Nash and Hogan all tried to prove who the best NWO was, there was a big shift as Konnan's group The Mob joined NWO Hollywood which got them to 16 people while Wolfpac and Chaos both only had 9 people, NWO Hollywood's Eric Bischoff decided this was getting sad as there was no competition for them and the civil wars should come to an end so everyone agreed to a gauntlet match between every NWO member where the alignment of the last man standing will declare the NWO Civil Wars winner

At Nitro 215, Goldberg had his huge night where he defended the US title against Hollywood Hogan, pinned Randy Savage in a tag team match and proceeded to defeat Sting in the main event to become WCW Heaviweight champion, Sting was looking forward to his rematch but Arn shocked him saying he'd have to earn it in a triple threat match against Hogan and Savage but Sting still managed to overcome the odds and win

Goldberg decided that he wanted to defend both the US and world title as he refused to drop both belts, HHH won a fatal 5 way NO1 contendership to face Goldberg here tonight

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 were done fighting with each other, Steiner Brothers gained the titles back at Great American Bash and Los Guerreros went back on what they said saying it would only end IF Los Guerreros had retained so they will have their third match in their series tonight

NWO Chaos wanted the dark angel Vampiro to join their group and beat up Hogan to make sure he wouldn't win the world title but Vampiro wanted to crush someone's dreams within Chaos to join their group which leader Kevin Nash accepted, Vampiro proceeded to make sure Hogan didn't win the title and a few weeks later Chaos member Stevie Ray shockingly turned on his longtime partner and brother Booker T as Booker's dream was crushed and he was kicked out of NWO Chaos, he returned wanting revenge as he attacked Chaos member Bret Hart and almost injured him if Nash didn't give him a match against him where if Nash lost, he would have to kick out a member of NWO Chaos, Nash accepted as he didn't want their most legit wrestler in the group to be injured

Hart Family made a huge jump from WWF to WCW and immediatly made rivals in NWO Hollywood, due to this Hart Family decided to join NWO Chaos after losing to them in a match, Hollywood revealed that they had someone within Hart Family that had already signed with them, Jim Neidhart proceeded to beat up Bret and Davey Boy Smith as he revealed himself as an Hollywood member, during the next weeks Smith would get increasingly more pissed with Chaos and eventually turned on them to join Wolfpac as he told Bret Chaos weren't the good guys, no matter how much he tried to spin it, a triple threat was made between all the members to determine the NO1 contender to the WCW Heaviweight Championship

Chris Jericho returned teaming up with Dean Malenko against Jushin Liger and Great Muta, since Jericho was the winning pinfall he became the new CW champion. After a month of being a failed babyface, Jericho turned heel as Malenko challenged him to a match for the title, the former king of the cruiserweights would face the new king of the cruiserweights but Billy Kidman attacked Malenko taking his spot in the match but losing. Malenko returned as a masked man during a battle royal to determine the NO1 contender as he promised to take the title away from Jericho this time

## Details

* Dean Malenko is making his entrance when Kidman attacks him and takes his spot yet again as people shit all over this match due to that
* Booker T manages to get Nash down and grabs a chair, Nash says he's a moron and that he would lose the match if he used the chair, Booker T says he's right BUT NWO Chaos would have an injured leader, Nash thinks about it when Rey comes out and does a missile dropkick to that chair putting Booker down but because of this Booker has won by DQ, he leaves smiling as his plan worked
* The Giant squashes Rey to win
* Hollywood Hogan enters the ring when he doesn't have a match as he challenges Vampiro to an improptu match, Vampiro accepts
* Steiner Bros vs Los Guerreros is one of the greatest tag team matches of all time as they go 30 minutes
* NWO Wolfpac reveals its newest member The Barbarian
* NWO Chaos reveals its newest member The Butcher
* After the main event, all of NWO Hollywood come out and beat up Hennig, Hogan says they don't need this, they're 16 people and can takedown any NWO and be the last men standing. NWO Wolfpac and NWO Chaos come out SIDE BY SIDE, Hall says that if Hogan decides to do that, Wolfpac and Chaos will team up and make sure his ass is kicked out of here, Hall and Nash 2 sweet as a temporary truce and takedown NWO Hollywood