Worst in the World: Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998

Leave it to WCW to have not one, but TWO great concepts and manage to f*ck both of them up at the same time. In 1998, the nWo split into two rival factions, the face nWo Wolfpac, led by Kevin Nash, and the heel nWo Hollywood, led by Hollywood Hogan. That's right, the nWo had gotten so big and so out-of-control that the only thing left to do was an nWo vs nWo angle. This angle led to a three team, three way WarGames match between Team WCW (Diamond Dallas Page, Roddy Piper, and The Ultimate Warrior), the nWo Wolfpac (Kevin Nash, Sting, and Lex Luger), and the nWo Hollywood (Hollywood Hogan, Bret Hart, and Stevie Ray). In perfect WCW fashion, they managed to take arguably their most beloved match and over complicate it, kind of like how they did with their most beloved stable.

Like in WarGames, one person from each team starts in the match, followed by a new person after five minutes, then one every two minutes. Once everyone has entered the cages, the match can only be won by submission or knockout, but in this version you can win by pinfall. This works well with two teams because it means the heel team will have the advantage and will garner sympathy for the faces who need to fight against the odds. However, it doesn't work when you have three teams, and here's why, as shown through my crudely made Microsoft Paint pictures.
The match starts with Diamond Dallas Page from WCW against Bret Hart from Hollywood, so the match looks like this:

Five minutes later, a Wolfpac member has to come in, so the match looks like this:

See the problem? No one has the advantage. But it doesn't end there. Five minutes later someone else comes in. Let's just say it's a Hollywood member:

It might look like Hollywood has the advantage, but in reality, it's still one on one. One guy from nWo would fit one of the other wrestlers, and the other would fight the other one. There's still no advantage here. But it gets even worse. Let's go forward 15 minutes when the third Hollywood member enters:

Again, it might look like Hollywood might have the advantage, but look closer. That's three Hollywood members against four non-Hollywood members. THE MAN ADVANTAGE PUTS THEM AT A DISADVANTAGE! HOW DID NO ONE NOTICE THIS?! And worst of all, at no point does anyone have the man advantage in this entire match. It's either everyone's even, or one team is at a disadvantage. Also, the winner gets a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship, so there's that.
Like I said, the match starts with WCW's DDP and Hollywood's Hart. The two lock up with Hart getting the advantage, laying in some stiff sounding shots so loud you can here them over Hart's stomping. Page hits a shoulder tackle and makes the cover. Apparently you can pin whenever you want, unlike in regular WarGames where you have to wait until every member of each team is in the ring. Hart and Dallas continue to have a good back and forth segment before Hart blocks a Diamond Cutter. Bobby Heenan says the nine best wrestlers in the world are in that ring. I know it's kayfabe, but does anyone really think Stevie Ray is one of the best wrestlers in WCW? I don't buy that for a second.
Hart and Page continue their good portion of the match before the clock sounds and outcomes...

Ugh...OK. You see...this doesn't make any sense. The commentators kept saying the wrestlers came out in a random order, but that doesn't make any sense. Now there's two guys from one team, one guy from another, and zero from the last team. Isn't there something a little off about that. I know what I showed before shows how sending them out in order didn't give anyone the advantage, but this is worse. Now a team has the advantage and one has a disadvantage, but the last team has ZERO chance of winning at this point. You don't have to wait for everyone to be in the match to win, so what happens if Hart pins DDP in the next two minutes. THIS MAKES NO SENSE.
Page hits a double clothesline on Hart and Ray, which Ray no sells by going to one knee instantly after bumping, and choking Page. The clock sounds and out comes Sting for the Wolfpac. Sting enters and the match immediately picks up the pace, pummeling Ray and jumping from the first ring to the second to hit Ray with a forearm. Sting continues battering Ray as Hart and Page go at it before the clock sounds and outcomes Roddy Piper for WCW.
Piper punches everyone in the ring, including his teammate Page, which showcases one huge problem with team based matches with singles prizes. They do this all the time, one guy puts his belt on the line in a tag match, which means the champion not only has to make sure his team wins, he needs to make sure he wins the match for his team. If his teammate wins, that means he loses his title. It's such a dumb idea, I have no idea why people even do it.
Piper continues to beat up everyone until the clock sounds and outcomes Lex Luger for the Wolfpac. At this point, the match is just a bunch of bodies beating each other up. The worst part is that none of them do anything interesting, so this match is just insanely boring. For some reason, they never utilize the fact that they have two rings to fight in, so everyone just stays in one ring:

Out next is Kevin Nash for the Wolfpac. Nash goes for a Jackknife on Stevie Ray, but did you see that cage? Look how small it is. No way is he hitting that in this match without someone hitting the ceiling, much less someone the size of Stevie Ray. Hogan sneaks into the ring before the clock sounds and starts beating everyone with a slap jack. We all should have seen this coming, as Stevie Ray foreshadowed it by writing "Slap Jack" on his ass:

Clever (not really). Hogan and Ray even take out Hart, before Hogan leg drops Nash. The clock runs out, but Hogan was next, so no one comes out. Hogan grandstands before hitting another leg drop on Nash and goes for the pin, but smoke fills the ring. Out of the smoke comes The Warrior, who gets instantly blindsided by Hogan. More smoke comes and when it goes away, Warrior is gone. And down the ramp comes The Warrior!...wait...is The Ultimate Warrior magic? Because that's the vibe I'm getting.
Warrior beats down Hogan and Ray before Hogan leaves the cages with help from the Disciple. The Hogan tells the Disciple to knock out the referee guarding the door because "why not?" and Warrior kicks the cage open and beats down Hogan some more. Hogan and Disciple run off as Page hits the Diamond Cutter on Stevie Ray for the win.

The Verdict

What a mess. The rules were confusing and over complicated, there was pretty much nothing but punching, and the match basically ended on five minutes of stalling and posing.

Rankings (Best to Worst)

1.  Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
2. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
3. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
4. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
5. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
6. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
7. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
8. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
9. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
10. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
11. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
12. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
13. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
14. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
15. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
16. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
17. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
18. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
19. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
20. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
21. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
22. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
23. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
24. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
25. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
26. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
27. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
28. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
29. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
30. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
31.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
32. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
33. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
34. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
35. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
36. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
37. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
38. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
39. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
40. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
41. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
42. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
43. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
44. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012

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