[1997-11-10-WCW-Nitro] Hulk Hogan and Sting

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Hogan and Bischoff are back out to call out Sting. Sting obliges and throws out the bat, which was a mistake, as the entire enters the ring and attacks him in the only beatdown Sting has been a victim of.

[Kevin Ridge]

Hogan wants Sting and he drops from the ceiling and enters the ring to face off with Hollywood. Ambush. Sting takes a beating which is needed to set things up for Starrcade but you have to ask where was WCW to back him up.

[soup23]

Sting gets called out and obliges. Sting throws the bat out and Macho slides in and we have a full on NWO attack. Really the first time Sting has gotten beat down all year. Good stuff to build towards Starrcade after the mishap earlier hyping the movie.

[El-P]

Well, I sound like a broken record, but Sting who saved DDP and Luger countless times this year is getting beat up, and no one comes to his aid. Luger and DDP were just there a few minutes ago !! Fuck, those nWo beatdowns were ridiculous at this point, and WCW looked like a bunch of shitheads. Really, the whole WCW vs nWo feud was dead. The nWo had won. The peak of the feud was Luger winning the belt on Nitro. After that point, there was nothing but personnal issues (Flair vs Hennig / Giant vs Nash / Sting vs Hogan) and no one gave a shit about WCW anymore expect Larry Zbyszko. From that perspective, it's kinda obvious why Sting and Luger eventually joigned the Wolfpack in 98.

[PeteF3]

It's okay for the NWO to get heat on Sting for one week as part of all this build-up, but yeah, the lack of an attempted save is kind of infuriating. Notice how Sting has no-sold everything that everyone has thrown at him but one blow from Hogan drops him.