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He wasn't a worker who had caught fire like Sting, Bret Hart or Goldberg in a way that made.ahem.certain parties in the company cut them off at the knees. Instead he was an upper midcarder who wrestled with, but wasn't lumped into the 'Vanilla Midgets' of Benoit, Jericho, Guerrero and the like.But DDP almost made it to the main event by stealth. He was friends with Bischoff and Nash and yet did not seem to have their predilection for creative control and the main event. Giant On WCW Souled Out 1997 Posted on Januby Steve Coulson GET BREAKING NEWS TO YOUR EMAIL:In a locker room whose factions would make the houses of Game of Thrones blush, Diamond Dallas Page (or DDP as he will be known for now on) is one of the few WCW workers of the late 90s that defied easy categorisation. Luckily the WCW library is still there to watch.Today In Wrestling History Via WWE Network (): Hollywood Hogan vs. With the way the world was heading I just didn't feel like doing another one of these that was going to make me angry like the previous one did.

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So instead of one nWo running roughshod over the roster, now there was two.What was worse however, was the fact that because Hogan and the nWo had destroyed or assimilated every babyface's push like some scuzzy Majin Buu, the concept of them being beaten was beginning to wear thin. But since Bischoff (and Hogan and Nash, probably) still saw some cache in the name, they couldn't even do that properly. A pro wrestling fanatic, Malone and Page soon hit it off and a kernel of an idea began to form in DDP's mind.But to talk about it, let's talk about these guys'You can go straight to Hell, Hogan! Straight to Hell!!!!'As I've said before, after essentially ensuring that Sting had been reduced to just another babyface with the horrific way that they booked Starrcade 1997 and beyond, the nWo had grown so far above everyone else that the only way to break it up was to dismantle it from within. Essentially, he's like the Davos Seaworth of WCW.In January 1998, DDP first met his future tag team partner Karl Malone. Instead he steadily accumulated a host of goodwill through his matches and his promos until essentially, he got to the top.

They screamed 'scrappy, but cool babyfaces'.Rodman, on the other hand, was already something of an outlier. Indeed, DDP probably saw something of himself in Malone as a guy who thought he'd never get the chance to fufil his chance to wrestle, only for fortune to smile upon him a little later in life. This also came across in Malone's approach to training for the match- flying to the WCW Power Plant for a month in order to lock up with workers of various sizes under the watchful eye of DDP. Like DDP he was a guy that could be relied upon by the Jazz to be a team player. Malone was known as 'the Mailman'- because of his professionalism and consistency. Why not use that to parlay into a match- Rodman and Hogan vs Page and Malone?It should be stressed how naturally well the two basketballers meshed as characters into the feud: both with their partners and their opponents.

Indeed, whatever you think of the title change on Nitro and the fact that they pissed money down the toilet, they got the title onto Goldberg and managed to fuel the marquis feud. He probably astutely realised as well that he put over Goldberg in a way that would allow him to conquer him back down the line- thus furthering his time on top and allowing him another subsequent reign. With a huge main event at Bash at the Beach with Rodman coming up (as well as probably the idea to follow this up with the one with Leno), Hogan knew that his immediate future as 'guy-who-all-the-cool-kids-wanna-hang-with' was assured. He dated Madonna, Electra and other high profile celebs and screamed the high flying, high spending, 'I-don't-give-any-fucks' lifestyle that the nWo also leant heavily upon.Another benefit of the feud was that it helped get the title off the stale guy and put it onto a fresh one. Indeed, Jordan himself talks about how he had to literally drag Rodman out of Las Vegas after he had 'extended' a 48-hour sabbatical by three days with Carmen Electra.

If I was watching American Alpha vs the Revival such a prospect would be mouthwatering. While a part of me thinks that's laughable, I do wonder if Hogan was worried about the success that was Goldberg and was trying to essentially advocate himself as the better wrestler by wrestling an epic encounter that went for 25+mins. But to go through that, we first have to go through the match.There is a rumour that Hogan wanted this match to be 40mins. And it has to be said that Page and Malone did a great job meshing as a team, with Malone especially surprising at how much time and effort he clearly put into this whole wrestling caper.The reason it is here is because of the two guys on the other side of the ring. I mean, the match did draw and it did help solve the problem of getting the title belt off Hogan.

And as for the line to describe Malone: 'he plans to deliver the mail like it has never been delivered before'.WTF?! How does that get this team over?! And the thing is, in most wrestling companies I would put this down to just incompetence, but because its WCW and Hogan.one can't help but feel that there's maybe an element of sabotage.It truly is almost worth it to see how much Malone is enjoying it though. Conversely, when DDP and Malone come out, because of the fact that they are not part of the wonderous nWo, they are bizarrely announced as having 'no official organisation or affiliation', which I think is supposed to put them over as cool babyfaces, but actually makes them seem like the people who no one want to sit with at school. Hogan and Rodman's announcements seem to go on longer than an audiobook of War and Peace, and the commentators going on about them as 'the most famous tag team in the history of wrestling'. Sure, it was big and amazing, but the fact that Bischoff (almost certainly at the behest of Hogan) had to add that line really showed how odd the company was when it came to coddling Hogan at the expense of everyone else on the card.Even the announcement of the entrances are ludicrous. This being the match after GOLDBERG DEFENDED HIS WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE FIRST FREAKIN' TIME.

After approximately 2 and a half mins of this (it feels longer, believe me), they FINALLY lock up with Rodman giving the oddest looking headlock on Malone before being irish whipped and escaping out of the ring. The commentators are hilariously putting this over as Rodman being 'cool', as if stalling by sticking your torso through the ropes (yes, he does this too to 'taunt' Malone) is the equivalent of a Rock promo. While Malone is doing his best to look like he's scouting Malone, Rodman is essentially walking laps of the ring in the world's shortest constitutional (DDP in this opening sequence looks angrier and angrier as Rodman walks past him). Even when the match starts he doesn't even take off his glasses and shirt (he soon does and gives them to Hogan, where his eyes appear.ahem.glazed). And I know they are kinda pumping the crowd, but there's only so much you can do of it.Throughout this opening sequence, Rodman appears.disinterested at best.

Even when Malone picks up Hogan for a pretty good looking bodyslam, Rodman barely moves. What makes this all the more stark is a few seconds later when Malone has Hogan in a headlock.Rodman looks like he's waiting for a sandwich, totally inanimate and not engaging in the match.

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