[1999-01-04-WCW-Nitro] Kevin Nash and Ric Flair

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Nash slings the belt around like a piece of crap. Nash claims Goldberg got screwed at Starrcade and suspects Hogan is behind Goldberg's arrest. He wants him in the ring tonight, but consider it a warm-up because he'll taken on Goldberg when he's done. Flair agrees to Nash's request and makes Hogan vs Nash tonight. Way to make Flair look dumb his first night in.

[Tim Evans]

So Nash is still a babyface right? Crowd seemed dead for this.

[soup23]

Crowd live was not happy at this change as it felt like a deliberate bait and switch effort on the part of WCW and Nash vs. Hogan was not something of great interest.

[PeteF3]

Goldberg, true badass that he is, proclaims that he sees Liz around all the hotels because WCW books them there. Then he points out that Liz sees him at the gym she goes to because he owns it.

 

Nash is out to talk to Gene and barely sounds awake. He asks Flair to swap out Goldberg for Hogan--the first of several straight weeks of Flair making an executive decision that blows up in his face. There is a very, VERY mixed reaction to this announcement. The negative reaction Chad talks about definitely comes through on TV.

[JKWebb]

Flair mentions 40,000 in the arena -- that may or may not be accurate -- but, at this point how many segments and interviews have they watched?  Between all the Goldberg stuff and long LWO segments - lot's of watching the monitor and interviews - then to end it the way they did?  Yowza.