Watch Now! WCW Monday Nitro “Fingerpoke of Doom” Was Also 17 Years Ago Today (Kevin Nash vs. Hulk Hogan, nWo Wolfpac)

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Mick Foley posted today thoughts on his WWE Raw title win from January 4, 1999.

Want to know in a nutshell why WCW lost and WWF won? WWF took the Daniel Bryan-like fan response to Mick Foley and capitalized on it to create a new star. WCW took their world title and made it an absolute joke. Same night.

Here is the WCW “match” between Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash which ended in Hogan winning the World Title, and a reboot-like reshuffling of the nWo wolfpac into complete nonsense.

There is no “one moment” where WCW died but this is just about as close as there is.

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