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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.
"Fingerpoke of Doom" January 4, 1999 Georgia Dome: Atlanta, Georgia: 5.0 Goldberg was arrested before his title match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Later, Tony Schiavone, on orders from Eric Bischoff, gave away Mankind's pre-taped WWF title victory on Raw, which resulted in over 600,000 viewers switching to Raw. New Year's Evil
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.
Along with Bill Goldberg and Sting, the nWo was one of the main factors behind WCW during the Monday Night War and would later be parodied by the World Wrestling Federation's D-Generation X (DX) stable, though the core members of both on-screen factions included members of The Kliq; (Sean Waltman even served as a member of both groups; as did ...
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.
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January 4 – Fingerpoke of Doom; January 12 - Shawn Michaels announces retirement; January 13 - Biography of Andre the Giant airs to highest ratings in A&E history; February 19 – Bill Goldberg makes a $100,000 challenge to Steve Austin on The Tonight Show; April 29 – WWF SmackDown debuted on UPN; May 23 – Death of Owen Hart
Goldberg was arrested later that night for aggravated stalking and taken into custody by police. However, later that night, Elizabeth admitted that she was lying. As it turned out, Elizabeth was a pawn for the nWo so that Goldberg would be unable to have his scheduled title match with Kevin Nash later that night.