Hog Wild | ||||
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VHS cover featuring Hulk Hogan |
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Tagline(s) | Ain't No Easy Riders Here | |||
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Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | |||
Date | August 10, 1996 | |||
Attendance | 5,000 | |||
Venue | Sturgis Motorcycle Rally | |||
City | Sturgis, South Dakota | |||
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Hog Wild took place on August 10, 1996 from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. The video cover featured Hulk Hogan in his Hulkster pose despite the fact that he joined the nWo one month prior and began being billed as Hollywood. The first eight matches aired on WCW Saturday Night on TBS. This event happened on a Saturday, instead of the normal Sunday night.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Saturday Night match: The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) defeated Dick Slater and Mike Enos (3:47)
- Saturday Night match: Konnan defeated Chavo Guerrero, Jr. (4:24)
- Saturday Night match: The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobs and Jerry Sags) defeated High Voltage (Robbie Rage and Kenny Kaos) (3:22)
- Saturday Night match: Alex Wright defeated Bobby Eaton (0:30)
- Saturday Night match: The Dungeon of Doom (The Taskmaster, Meng, and The Barbarian) defeated Joe Gomez, Jim Powers, and Mark Starr (3:06)
- Saturday Night match: Squire David Taylor defeated Mr. JL (2:37)
- Saturday Night match: Diamond Dallas Page defeated The Renegade (6:53)
- Saturday Night match: Arn Anderson defeated Hugh Morrus (0:40)
- Rey Mysterio, Jr. defeated The Ultimate Dragon to retain the WCW Cruiserweight Championship (11:35)
- Mysterio pinned Dragon after a hurricanrana from the top rope. The entrances were simulcast at the close of WCW Saturday Night, which aired live from Sturgis that night.
- Scott Norton defeated Ice Train (5:05)
- Norton forced Train to submit with an armbar.
- Madusa defeated Bull Nakano (5:00) in a "Battle of the Bikes" match.
- Madusa defeated Nakano by pinfall(both women had their shoulders down, but Madusa lifted her right shoulder off the canvas before the referee reached the three-count). Due to a pre-match stipulation, Madusa was allowed to destroy Nakano's Japanese motorcycle with a sledgehammer.
- Chris Benoit (with Woman and Miss Elizabeth) defeated Dean Malenko (26:55)
- Benoit pinned Malenko with a roll-up.
- Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship (17:53)
- Booker pinned Scott after Parker hit him with a cane.
- Ric Flair (with Woman and Miss Elizabeth) defeated Eddie Guerrero to retain the WCW United States Championship (14:14)
- Flair pinned Guerrero with a figure-four.
- The Outsiders (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) defeated Sting and Lex Luger (14:36)
- Hall pinned Luger after Nick Patrick hit Luger with an elbow.
- Hollywood Hogan defeated The Giant (with Jimmy Hart) to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship (14:55)
- Hogan pinned Giant after hitting him with the title belt while the referee was dealing with an interfering Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.
- After the match, The Booty Man came to the ring with an nWo T-shirt on and a birthday gift for Hogan; Hogan teased as if Booty Man was going to join the group but turned on him and beat him down with Hall and Nash.
- Hogan then spray-painted “nWo” on the front of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt.
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