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Like Savage, Nash began to pull away from the Hogan-dominated nWo, and Nash helped Savage beat Sting for the championship at Spring Stampede in April. Nash and Savage officially split from the original nWo on May 4, forming the face group nWo Wolfpac, while Hogan's heel faction became identified as nWo Hollywood.
After the match, however, Hogan assaulted Nash. Nash later helped Savage defeat Sting by hitting a powerbomb on the champion, earning Savage the win, the title, and the ire of Hogan who came out following the match proclaiming that Savage had "his title". [38] [39] Hogan and The Disciple then attacked Nash and Savage to close out the show. [40]
The main event was a triangle elimination match between Team nWo (Hollywood Hogan, Randy Savage, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) (with Dennis Rodman), Team Piper (Roddy Piper, Chris Benoit, Steve McMichael and Jeff Jarrett) and Team WCW (Lex Luger, The Giant and Scott Steiner).
During this match Sting defeated Scott Hall via pinfall following a Scorpion Death Drop. During the main event steel cage match between Hollywood Hogan and Randy Savage, The Disciple interfered, knocking both referees out and stopping Savage from assaulting Hogan. Savage then attacked Sting, who interfered on his behalf, and spat at Hogan ...
The feud came to a fever pitch when Savage took the title from Sting, only to have Hogan take it from him the next night. After that, the nWo split into two factions, with Hogan spearheading nWo Hollywood and Savage co-founding the nWo Wolfpac with Nash. The Outsiders split shortly after when Hall turned on Nash and joined up with nWo Hollywood.
Heel faction of the nWo formed when Kevin Nash, Randy Savage, and Konnan left the group and created the nWo Wolfpac, splitting the group in two. Hollywood Hogan (leader and founding member; retired in November 1998; came back in January 1999; leader of nWo Elite after reunion) Eric Bischoff (founding member, part of nWo Elite after reunion)
This led to a tag team match at Bash at the Beach between Kevin Nash and Sting against Savage and Sid, in which whoever scored the winning fall would win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Savage won his fourth and final WCW World Heavyweight Championship when he pinned Nash. [7] [8] Savage's last reign as champion did not last long.
Randy Savage, who had been feuding with Hogan for some time prior, defeated Sting with help from Nash to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Spring Stampede in April 1998. Hogan was furious over the development and challenged Savage to a title match the next night on WCW Monday Nitro.