[1997-04-07-WCW-Nitro] Double Team World Premiere

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Footage of Dennis Rodman promotiong Double Team. Hulk Hogan - decked out in an NWO t-shirt - makes an appearance too. We get to see Hogan rub shoulders with Jean Claude Van Damme, and Rodman is decked out in makeup and glitter. Not only a great segment to make WCW seem really mainstream, but also plays nicely into the current NWO dissension angle where Nash and Co. think Hogan's eye is off the ball.

[soup23]

This worked as a mainstream piece. I always like Hogan at an event like this because you get a big fish in a little pond (Wrestling) but little fish in big pond (hollywood) vibe when he rubs shoulders with these guys. Dennis' outfit is a site to behold and he drops the date on Bash at the Beach.

[Kevin Ridge]

Hogan fits in with the mainstream media and Rodman is in full get up and in character. WCW should have tried to get Van Damme on their side.

[El-P]

WCW should have tried to get Van Damme on their side.

 

Oh, the promos he coumd have cut ! Van Damme is a cult figure in France for all the ridiculous interviews he gave over the years.

[PeteF3]

Hogan has a black woman on his arm. Rodman looks like Goldust (no, I didn't mistake the woman for Rodman). Larry: "There's Mrs. Rodman, where's Dennis?" Strong little segment, back when Van Damme was still something vaguely approaching an A-lister.