The book Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Professional Wrestling’s New World Order Changed America of Marc Raimondi It is already available for purchase. Recently, we entered him to talk about the egos problem in the costumes of WCW and how Hulk Hogan and his friends from the nWo sabotaged the career of Bret Hart In the company. On this occasion, we do it again to continue with “The Immortal”, but trying now The formation of the New World Order and enter into reality He was not originally chosen to accompany Kevin Nash and Scott Hall in the first days of the faction.
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The moment Hogan allied with Nash and Hall in the end Bash at the Beach 1996 It is considered One of the most shocking turns in the history of wrestling.
However, that memorable betrayal of everything that had made him a legend It could never have happened. The author of the aforementioned book granted an interview with the Pódcast not answers Wrestling and explained that Eric Bischoff It did not originally plan that Hogan was the “third man” of the group. The chosen one was nothing less than Sting.
“It was like … he had an idea, right? But that was all. It was just an idea, and there was a bit of planning, but it was largely improvised on the march. Because Hogan was not supposed to be the third man, right? His original idea was to be Sting. “
But it was not Bischoff who had the idea of the change of the protagonist but Hogan himself. I was filming the movie often Santa Claus (1996) when Jimmy Hart I sent him VHS tapes WCW Monday NITRO y Seeing what The Outsiders were doing in the company did not hesitate to call the Executive President:
“Call Bischoff on the phone and says: 'Can we talk? Can you come to Los Angeles?' So Bischoff simply said: 'And who do you think it should be?' And Hogan replied: 'You are looking at him, brother'. And so it was. This is how it all began to take shape. “
You will never know what would have been from the NWO with “The Icon” as one of its leaders but Raimond is clear that I would not have reached the legendary level he had:
“If it had been sting, It would have been a good struggle, but it would not have transcended. That Hogan became a villain at that time was something huge … in the '96 the viral did not exist, but that went viral. ”
