[1997-11-24-WCW-Nitro] Hulk Hogan vs The Giant

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Giant is wearing a cast on his hand and otherwise looks out of it. Bischoff and Rude invade the broadcast booth and swat the announcers away. This is a pretty solid match with Hogan working over Giant's bum hand. Hogan actually worked hard and looked decent here and the match would have been better had Giant not been so terrible. Was he wrestling drunk? The super tall Sting is back with his baseball bat to attack Giant's hand and it's Kevin Nash again?? No way! Lethargic beatdown and a dummy Sting falls from the ceiling and Nash beats him under the ring. Does any segment end during this time with the NWO or DX getting their comeuppance? Even one? All the heel victories on both shows are getting old.

[Kevin Ridge]

Giant clocks Vincent with the cast and Randy Anderson just softly kicks him out of the ring. Hogan goes after the injured hand for most of the match. Giant makes a comeback and does the chokeslam with the injured arm. Dumb. This wasn't very good and there was no security to be found again. Nobody seemed to check on Vincent who was probably still lying on the floor. Not the best night of wrestling but I'd say DX was worse for the evening as their stuff was more personal.

[soup23]

Short match and Giant does look dreadful and out of it. We get Nash as Sting AGAIN and that is my least favorite thing in WCW in 1997. NWO delivers a big beatdown and both Raw and Nitro felt like misfires on this night which is odd for how hot 1997 has been throughout.

[Robert S]

This segment was almost "death of WCW"-level bad. All creativity seems to be gone by that point, everything here is just some repetition:

- Running the same match-up for the 700th time.

- Doing the fake Sting angle for the 50th time, this time even on back-to-back nights.

- For the second time a mannequin is dropped from the ceiling with the nWo pretending that it's Sting.

- Of course the whole thing ends with just another nWo beatdown with no WCW guys even trying for a save.

[El-P]

Awful angle to follow another awful angle. Yeah, this could be part of my Death of WCW thread. The more we come close to Starrcade, the more it's obvious the company had already jumped the shark. Pitiful.

[PeteF3]

This is terrible, as bad as the closing segment of Raw. WCW is completely out of ideas here--not a shred of originality anywhere in this segment. The Vince McMahon push can't get here soon enough, because we'll finally have a top heel who doesn't just guffaw over and no-sell everything. It's why Vince is, like him or not, one of the best performers ever. Bischoff is as bad here as he was good in the opening segment.