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Because WCW…

By Scott Keith on May 21, 2014


Watching nWo era WCW PPVs on the Network, I think I found a match with the most questions answered with "Because WCW" — the triangle elimination match from Uncensored 1997.

You have:

Team WCW (Luger, Giant, Scott Steiner, Rick Steiner); if they win, the nWo forfeits all championships held and can't compete for 3 years

Team NWO (Hogan, Savage, Nash, Hall); if they win they can challenge for any WCW title any place, any time (and nWo was smart enough not to put a time limit on this like WCW)

Team Piper (Piper, Benoit, Jarrett, McMichael); if they win Piper gets Hogan in a cage match

A sampling of questions to begin, and invariably, end with "Because WCW"…
  1. Rick Steiner was "attacked" by the nWo before the match, and couldn't compete; so does WCW, at a WCW event, get another WCW roster member to replace him? Nope. Why?
  2. Piper's Team and WCW's Team have a common enemy, but continue to fight one another as the nWo picks them apart. Babyfaces are morons. Why?
  3. Piper's original team, btw, consisted of Earthquake, a kick boxer, a regular boxer, and almost had an unknown Bill Goldberg. Instead, the Horsemen decide to help him instead of helping the company they work for eliminate it's worst threat. Why?
  4. Scott Hall breaks up a pin of the Giant on Benoit early in the match… Why?
  5. Piper gets a steel cage match with Hogan at Halloween Havoc that year anyway. Why?
  6. Dennis Rodman is with the nWo, and allowed to freely interfere in the match to help the nWo win; meanwhile, WCW is DOWN A MAN and doesn't have anyone come out to help them… Why?
  7. Lex Luger is down 4-1 to the nWo, then picks off the baddest dudes in wrestling in 30 seconds flat before being befuddled by a basketball player with a spray paint can. Why?
It goes on like that… What was the idea behind this match? Is there any answer beyond the obvious?

-Steve
Oh man, if we start analyzing WCW we will literally be here all week. Although Goldberg wasn't on Team Piper, that was Horshu. That whole main event was like the most WCW that ever WCW'd.

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