Slamboree (1998)

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Slamboree 1998 was the fifth Slamboree event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 23rd May 1998

## Background

The main storyline heading into the show is Sting defending the WCW Heaviweight Championship against Konnan. Sting won back the WCW title from Scott Steiner in an episode of Nitro, a fatal 4 way was held as the leader of The Mob Konnan defeated Scott Steiner, Lex Luger and Vampiro to become NO1 contender to the title, a main factor heading into this match is that every side of New World Order is trying to get Konnan's approval as they want The Mob in their group

Goldberg is both TV and United States Champion, he has been holding open challenges defending both belts and he decided that he wanted to wrestle 2 matches tonight for each title. NWO Hollywood's The Great Muta defeated Vampiro, Lex Luger and Kanyon to get the US title match and Goldberg wanted a member of The Mob as his TV title defense so Konnan held a fatal 5 way as Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Fit Finlay, Billy Kidman, Buff Bagwell and Juventud Guerrera

Randy Savage and The Giant defeated Steven Regal and Chris Benoit to become NO1 contenders to the tag titles, they wanted to ruin Steiner Brothers as much as they could so Savage and Giant attacked Scott Steiner during his heaviweight title match which made him lose the title back to Sting. The Mob beat up Scott after he tried to attack their leader Konnan so Scott might not be at 100 percent for tonight

Lex Luger hasn't won a WCW match since october 1996 and Barbarian hasn't won since october 1995, Rick Rude started managing both men as he wanted to lead them to greatness, they started attacking Vampiro as Luger challenged him to a handicap match, since Vampiro's goal is to crush dreams he accepted this wanting to crush their dream of ending their losing streak

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 faces the new king of the cruiserweights

It has been announced that Roddy Piper will host an open challenge here tonight

## Results

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## Details

* Billy Kidman attacks Malenko before the CW title match and randomly takes his spot
* Scott is really injured and Savage keeps on injuring him during this, Savage hits an elbow drop and is gonna win when Chavo Guerrero hits Savage with the CITL briefcase but instead of cashing in he just winks at Scott
* Goldberg decides to merge both the TV and US title but keep the US's lineage, the TV title is officially retired
* Roddy piper does his open challenge, out comes NWO Chaos and Kevin Nash is the one to accept. The match begins with Piper trying to hand lock with Nash but it changes into a 2 sweet as both men hug it out, Nash gives Piper an NWO Chaos shirt
* Rude chairshots Vampiro as Luger has won his first match since october of '96 and Barbarian has his first win since october of '95
* During the main event, Nash and HHH come out to help Konnan win but Sting beats them to the ground and still defeats Konnan