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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 10:36:56 GMT -5
The reason the worked shoot angle happened with Russo and Hogan is because Hogan wanted to win the wcw title from Jeff Jarrett that night, but Russo didn't want that to happen. The plan was for Booker T to win the title that night, but he was booked in a match vs Kanyon in which he lost! Only reason Jeff Jarrett was champion was because he was Russo's buddy. Couldn't Hulk Hogan have just won the title that night and eventually lose it to Booker T sometime after?
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jul 10, 2017 11:24:55 GMT -5
That whole thing was a work up until Russo coming out and bashing Hogan verbally when Hogan was gone.
If you watch the match, Hogan came out or his match with Jarrett and wasn't even wearing his kneepads. Hogan would have worn them if it was a real match taking place.
Russo though took it one stop too far and bad mouthed the name of Hulk Hogan after he had left the building. That's when the lawsuit thing happened.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 13:55:43 GMT -5
The Death of WCW book covers this pretty well.
I still laugh at the people who say Jarrett didn't have any idea.
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Jul 11, 2017 14:08:19 GMT -5
I'd already thrown in the towel on WCW by this point. Once 1999 came to an end, I tapped out and focused mainly on the WWF.
It still baffles me how fast that company imploded. From biggest gate and PPV buyrate in their history to out of business merely three years later.
Still makes me sad as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2017 11:35:24 GMT -5
They should have just had Hogan beat Jarrett at BATB and then he could have lost it to Booker eventually. I would say he could have lost it at the following ppv New Blood Rising, but that was in Canada so I doubt Hogan would have lost there.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 17, 2017 10:40:21 GMT -5
That whole PPV was terrible in a nutshell. The Wedding gown match was a total crock of crap. They didn't even use actual wedding gowns
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Post by cordless2016 on Jul 17, 2017 21:30:07 GMT -5
People saying Hogan should have won and later dropped it to Booker are looking past he fact that Hogan didn't want to put anyone over. If it literally took the big wigs at Turner convincing him to drop it to Goldberg in 1998, why would he agree to lose to Booker? Putting over Booker was the right thing to do, but reports say that Hogan wasn't having it.
This was basically the only way to get Hogan out of the title picture. Originally the plan was for Hogan to "walk out," only for Booker to win the title later that night. Hogan returns that fall, which leads to Booker vs Hogan in a unification match. Problem is that Hogan was reportedly not going to put over Booker.
Hogan pulled the same crap in 2002. Reportedly the only reason he lost to Brock clean was that Vince promised to have Brock return the favor later that year at Survivor Series in a cage match. Vince had no intentions of keeping that promise, but had to do it in order to get Hogan to play ball. Russo did the same thing (yes he had creative control but that's a huge reason as to why WCW was in the shape it was in back in 2002).
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