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The Fingerpoke of Doom was so named both for Nash's deliberate over-sell of the finger poke, and for the negative ramifications the incident had for WCW as a whole, with some wrestling journalists crediting it as the beginning of the company's ultimate downfall and loss of the Monday Night War.
Nash would lie down and allow Hogan to pin him, effectively handing the title to Hogan, in an incident infamously known as the "Fingerpoke of Doom". [10] The match was followed by a reunion of the New World Order, revealing that Nash's victories at World War 3 and Starrcade had been part of a conspiracy to get the title back on Hogan. [11] [12]
The Dudley Boyz were the final WCW World Tag Team Champions. The WCW World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling World Tag Team Championship contested for in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Originally, WCW was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), which had numerous member promotions. The NWA operated many tag team ...
Some dispute whether the Fingerpoke of Doom angle hurt WCW. [32] According to TWNPNews.com, Nitro ' s Nielsen ratings on January 11, the week following the incident, once again reached 5.0. [31] During the January 18 episode, however, ratings would fall slightly to 4.9, [31] but would recover to 5.0 the following week. [31]
The nWo reunited as heels after the Fingerpoke of Doom, wrestling in the colors of nWo Wolfpac. Hollywood Hogan (leader and founding member, left on August 9, 1999, episode of Nitro returning to Hulkamania and then on August 14, 1999, at Road Wild defeated Nash to end the nWo Wolfpac Elite.
While in WCW, he was a member of the New World Order faction, wrestled several matches, [1] refereed a total of eighty five main events and had the dubious distinction of being pantsed by Stacy Keibler during a match on pay-per-view. [1] He remained with WCW until the promotion was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation in March 2001. [1]
The Nitro main event (featuring Hulk Hogan defeating Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship) was also marred by its unusual build-up and controversial finish—dubbed the "Fingerpoke of Doom". The episode's events were retrospectively considered to be one of several missteps that led towards WCW's eventual demise, and the sale of ...
On the October 3 edition of WCW Saturday Night, they were then upset by Dustin Rhodes and Barry Windham and lost both titles. Williams and Gordy received a rematch at Halloween Havoc 92 but Gordy quit the company and was replaced by Steve Austin and they were only able to wrestle Rhodes and Windham to a time limit draw.