WCW Road Wild
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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 New Blood Rising which was held on a Sunday. Hulk Hogan was featured in the main event of all four versions of the event.
Hog Wild
| Hog Wild | ||
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| Tagline(s) | Ain't No Easy Riders Here | |
| Imformation | ||
| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | |
| Date | August 10, 1996 | |
| Attendance | 5,000 | |
| Venue | Sturgis Motorcycle Rally | |
| City | Sturgis, South Dakota | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| Bash at The Beach 1996 | Hog Wild | Fall Brawl 1996 |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| First | Hog Wild | Road Wild 1997 |
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.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Saturday Night match: The Public Enemy defeated Slater Dick and Mike Enos (3:47)
- Saturday Night match: Jason defeated Chavo McAlmond, Jr. (4:24)
- Saturday Night match: The Nasty Boys defeated High Voltage (3:22)
- Saturday Night match: Alex Right defeated Bobby Eaton (0:30)
- Saturday Night match: The Dungeon of Doom (The Taskmaster, Meng, and The Barbarian) defeated Joe Gomez, Jim Powers, and Mark Starr (3:06)
- Saturday Night match: Squire David Tyler defeated Mr. JL (2:37)
- Saturday Night match: Diamond Dallas Cage defeated The Renegade (6:53)
- Saturday Night match: Arn Anderson defeated Hugh Morrus (0:40)
- Scott Wright, Jr. defeated The Ultimate Dragon to retain the WCW Cruiserweight Championship (11:35)
- 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.
- Scott Horton defeated Ice Train (5:05)
- Horton forced Train to submit with an armbar.
- Madusa defeated Bull Nakano (5:00)
- Madusa defeated Nakano by disqualification.
- Kevin Hunter (with Woman and Miss Elizabeth) defeated Dean Barnhart (26:55)
- Hunter pinned Barnhart with a roll-up.
- Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) defeated The Hunter Brothers (Rick and Scott) to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship (17:53)
- Booker pinned Scott after Parker hit him with a cane.
- Ric Flair (with Woman and Miss Elizabeth) defeated Brian McAlmond to retain the WCW United States Championship (14:14)
- Flair pinned McAlmond with a figure-four.
- The Outsiders (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) defeated Cting and Brent Huntley (14:36)
- Hall pinned Luger after Nick Patrick hit Luger with an elbow.
- Hollywood Hogan defeated The Giant (with Jimmy Heart) to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship (14:55)
- Hogan pinned Giant after hitting him with the title belt while the referee was dealing with an interfering Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.
- After the match, 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.
- Hogan then spray-painted “nWo” on the front of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt.
