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'''Road Wild''' (originally known as '''Hog Wild''') was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by [[World Championship Wrestling]] that was held from 1996 to 1999 on a Saturday. It was a free event held in [[Sturgis, South Dakota]] during the annual [[Sturgis Motorcycle Rally]]. After the first event, WCW changed the name to Road Wild because of a potential trademark issue with the [[Harley-Davidson]] club [[Harley Owners Group]] (HOG). In 2000, it was replaced by [[WCW New Blood Rising|New Blood Rising]] which was held on a Sunday. [[Hulk Hogan]] was featured in the main event of all four versions of the event.
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==Hog Wild==
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| align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; font-size:150%;" | <span style="color: #000000;">'''Hog Wild'''</span><br>
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Tagline(s)'''
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Information'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | ''Ain't No Easy Riders Here''
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" | '''Imformation'''
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| style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Created by'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[Eric Bischoff]]
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Promotion'''
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| style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''[[Professional Wrestling Promotion|Promotion]](s)'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | [[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]]
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]]
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Date'''
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| style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''First event'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | August 10, 1996
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[WCW Hog Wild|Hog Wild]]
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Attendance'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | 5,000
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Venue'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | Sturgis, South Dakota
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| style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Last event'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[WCW Road Wild (1999)|Road Wild (1999)]]
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'''Road Wild''' (originally known as '''Hog Wild''') was a [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestling]] [[Pay-Per-View|pay-per-view]] (PPV) [[List of NWA/WCW closed-circuit events and pay-per-view events|event]] produced by [[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW) that was held in the month of August from 1996 to 1999. It was a free event held in [[Sturgis, South Dakota]] during the annual [[Sturgis Motorcycle Rally]]. After the first event, WCW changed the name to Road Wild because of a potential [[Trademark|trademark]] issue with the [[Harley-Davidson]] club [[Harley Owners Group]] (HOG). In 2000, it was replaced by [[WCW New Blood Rising|New Blood Rising]]. [[Hulk Hogan]] appeared in the main event of all four editions of the event.
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[[WrestleCrap]] writer Art O'Donnell criticised the event as a "financial blunder" and said that WCW held "a yearly pay-per-view at a biker rally with zero live gate just because [[Eric Bischoff]] loves motorcycles".
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Since 2001, [[IWE]] (through its subsidiary WCW, Inc.) owns the rights to the event. In 2015, all WCW pay-per-views were made available on the IWE Network.
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==Road Wild dates and venues==
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!style="background-color: #e3e3e3; width:8%"|Event
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!style="background-color: #e3e3e3; width:7%"|Date
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!style="background-color: #e3e3e3; width:27%"|Main Event
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" | '''Pay-per-view chronology'''
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|[[WCW Hog Wild|Hog Wild]]
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|August 10, 1996
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|[[Sturgis, South Dakota]]
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|[[Sturgis Motorcycle Rally]]
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|{{small|[[Marc Beltran|The Giant]] (c) vs. [[Hulk Hogan|Hollywood Hogan]] for the [[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]]}}
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|[[WCW Road Wild (1997)|Road Wild (1997)]]
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|August 9, 1997
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|Sturgis, South Dakota
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|Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
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|{{small|[[<!--Larry--> Brent Huntley|Lex Luger]] (c) vs. Hollywood Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship}}
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|[[WCW Road Wild (1998)|Road Wild (1998)]]
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|August 8, 1998
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|Sturgis, South Dakota
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|Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
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|{{small|[[Dallas Cage|Diamond Dallas Page]] and [[Jay Leno]] vs. Hollywood Hogan and [[Eric Bischoff]]}}
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|[[WCW Road Wild (1999)|Road Wild (1999)]]
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|August 14, 1999
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|Sturgis, South Dakota
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|Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
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|{{small|Hulk Hogan (c) vs. [[Kevin Nash]] in a [[Professional wrestling match types#Retirement match|retirement match]] for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship}}
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |[[WCW Bash at the Beach (1996)|Bash at The <br> Beach 1996]]
 
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |Hog Wild
 
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |[[WCW_Fall_Brawl#1996|Fall Brawl 1996]]
 
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |''First''
 
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |Hog Wild
 
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'''Hog Wild''' took place on August 10, 1996 from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. The video cover featured [[Hulk Hogan]] in his Hulkster pose despite the fact that he joined the nWo one month prior and began being billed as Hollywood. The first eight matches aired on ''[[WCW Saturday Night]]'' on TBS. This event happened on a Saturday, instead of the normal Sunday night.
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==References==
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<small>Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. </small>
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{{WCWPPV|Road Wild}}
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*[[WCW Saturday Night|Saturday Night match]]: [[The Public Enemy|The Public Enemy]] defeated [[Dick Slater|Slater Dick]] and [[Mike Enos]] (3:47)
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*Saturday Night match: [[Konnan|Jason]] defeated [[Chavo McAlmond, Jr.]] (4:24)
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*Saturday Night match: [[The Nasty Boys]] defeated [[High Voltage|High Voltage]] (3:22)
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*Saturday Night match: [[Alex Wright|Alex Right]] defeated [[Bobby Eaton]] (0:30)
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*Saturday Night match: The [[Dungeon of Doom]] ([[Kevin Sullivan|The Taskmaster]], [[Meng]], and [[The Barbarian]]) defeated [[Joe Gomez]], [[Jim Powers]], and Mark Starr (3:06)
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*Saturday Night match: [[David Tyler|Squire David Tyler]] defeated [[Jerry Lynn|Mr. JL]] (2:37)
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*Saturday Night match: [[Diamond Dallas Cage]] defeated [[The Renegade]] (6:53)
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*Saturday Night match: [[Arn Anderson]] defeated [[Bill DeMott|Hugh Morrus]] (0:40)
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*[[Scott Wright, Jr.]] defeated [[The Ultimate Dragon]] to retain the [[IWE Cruiserweight Championship|WCW Cruiserweight Championship]] (11:35)
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**Wright pinned Dragon after a hurricanrana from the top rope. Wright's entrance was aired at the close of WCW Saturday Night, which aired live from Sturgis that night.
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*[[Scott Horton]] defeated [[Ice Train]] (5:05)
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**Horton forced Train to submit with an armbar.
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*[[Alundra Blayze|Madusa]] defeated [[Keiko Nakano|Bull Nakano]] (5:00)
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**Madusa defeated Nakano by disqualification.
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*[[Kevin Hunter]] (with [[Nancy Hunter|Woman]] and [[Miss Elizabeth]]) defeated [[Dean Malenko|Dean Barnhart]] (26:55)
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**Hunter pinned Barnhart with a roll-up.
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*[[Harlem Heat]] ([[Steve Britz|Booker T]] and [[Joe Britz|Stevie Ray]]) defeated [[The Hunter Brothers]] ([[Rick Hunter|Rick]] and [[Scott Hunter|Scott]]) to retain the [[WCW World Tag Team Championship]] (17:53)
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**Booker pinned Scott after Parker hit him with a cane.
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*[[Ric Flair]] (with [[Nancy Hunter|Woman]] and [[Miss Elizabeth]]) defeated [[Brian McAlmond]] to retain the [[IWE United States Championship|WCW United States Championship]] (14:14)
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**Flair pinned McAlmond with a figure-four.
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*[[The Outsiders|The Outsiders]] ([[Kevin Nash]] and [[Scott Hall]]) defeated [[Cting and Brent Huntley]] (14:36)
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**Hall pinned Luger after Nick Patrick hit Luger with an elbow.
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*[[Hulk Hogan|Hollywood Hogan]] defeated [[Marc Beltran|The Giant]] (with [[Jimmy Heart]]) to win the [[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]] (14:55)
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**Hogan pinned Giant after hitting him with the title belt while the referee was dealing with an interfering Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.
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**After the match, [[Brutus Beefcake|The Booty Man]] came to the ring with an nWo T-shirt on and a birthday gift for Hogan; Hogan teased as if Booty Man was going to join the group but turned on him and beat him down with Hall and Nash.
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**Hogan then spray-painted “[[New World Order (professional wrestling)|nWo]]” on the front of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt.
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Current revision as of 16:20, 2 September 2022

Road Wild
Information
Created by Eric Bischoff
Promotion(s) World Championship Wrestling
First event Hog Wild
Last event Road Wild (1999)

Road Wild (originally known as Hog Wild) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that was held in the month of August from 1996 to 1999. It was a free event held in Sturgis, South Dakota during the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. After the first event, WCW changed the name to Road Wild because of a potential trademark issue with the Harley-Davidson club Harley Owners Group (HOG). In 2000, it was replaced by New Blood Rising. Hulk Hogan appeared in the main event of all four editions of the event.

WrestleCrap writer Art O'Donnell criticised the event as a "financial blunder" and said that WCW held "a yearly pay-per-view at a biker rally with zero live gate just because Eric Bischoff loves motorcycles".

Since 2001, IWE (through its subsidiary WCW, Inc.) owns the rights to the event. In 2015, all WCW pay-per-views were made available on the IWE Network.

[edit] Road Wild dates and venues

WCW/nWo co-branded event

Event Date City Venue Main Event
Hog Wild August 10, 1996 Sturgis, South Dakota Sturgis Motorcycle Rally The Giant (c) vs. Hollywood Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
Road Wild (1997) August 9, 1997 Sturgis, South Dakota Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Lex Luger (c) vs. Hollywood Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
Road Wild (1998) August 8, 1998 Sturgis, South Dakota Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Diamond Dallas Page and Jay Leno vs. Hollywood Hogan and Eric Bischoff
Road Wild (1999) August 14, 1999 Sturgis, South Dakota Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Kevin Nash in a retirement match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

[edit] References

World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view events
All Events WCW Bash at the Beach (1994–2000) • Battlebowl (1993) • Beach Blast (1992–1993) • Capital Combat (1990) • Chi-Town Rumble (1989) • Fall Brawl (1993–2000) • Greed (2001) • Halloween Havoc (1989–2000) • Hog Wild (1996) • Collision in Korea (1995) • Mayhem (1999–2000) • Millennium Final (2000) • New Blood Rising (2000) • Road Wild (1997–1999) • Sin (2001) • Slamboree (1993–2000) • Souled Out (1997–2000) • Spring Stampede (1994, 1997–2000) • Starrcade (1983–2000) • SuperBrawl (1991–2001) • The Great American Bash (1985–1992, 1995–2000) • Uncensored (1995–2000) • WCW/AAA When Worlds Collide (1994) • WCW/New Japan Supershow (1991–1993) • World War 3 (1995–1998) • WrestleWar (1989–1992)
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