AlecPure

Sep 2 2009, 08:59 PM

wait so Jarrett layed down for Hogan? cause Hogan didn't want to lose to Double J. What a crock. Does anyone know what happend on the nitro afterwards

AlecPure

Sep 2 2009, 08:26 PM

was the Hogan/Jarrett/Russo Bash at the Beach a work or was it real?

Excerpt from Controversy Creates Cash

 

Because of the way we had used the WCW Championship belt over the past few years, it had ceased to have any real meaning. I had been working on an angle involving Hogan that would fix that. “What if we create a situation where you win by disqualification, but you’re so disgusted with everything that happened until that moment that you grab the microphone and basically say, ‘Screw you. I’m done. I’ve achieved everything I want to achieve. This belt is my belt. Kiss my ass, I’m out of here!’?” I would feign confusion and try to calm Hulk down. There’d be plenty of people and press around. We’d work everyone there, trying to make it look as if Hogan was quitting with the title. He was quitting and taking the title with him. That would force WCW to have a tournament to decide the new champion. The anticipation would build over the months, culminating with a title match at Halloween Havoc. The storylines with everyone striving for the title would give it back its credibility and meaning. As I laid it out, the idea was for WCW to acknowledge that Hogan had retired with the title. We’d create a new one.
Hogan liked it. It made sense. There was an arc and a reason for what happened.

“So what happens next, brother?” “We’ll end up having two heels in the finals at Halloween Havoc,” I told him. “As these two show up to wrestle, you come out of nowhere and say, ‘Uh-uh—this is the championship belt. This is the WCW title. It has a history and tradition. You want it, you have to go through me.’ ” Bam, we have an impromptu match. We surprise everyone. We’ve added credibility to the World Heavyweight title. We have Hogan in the ring with a heel. It all made sense. Hogan agreed. I told him that for it to work, he had to go away for three months. That was no big deal, though. It worked into the framework of his contract anyway, and he was okay with it. I got on the phone and ran it by Brad. I didn’t want him to panic if he heard the news that I’d chased Hogan out of the building. Brad liked it, and he, I, and Hogan decided that was what we were going to do. I didn’t want to tell Russo. By that time, I knew I couldn’t trust him. I knew he wouldn’t keep his mouth shut. A leak to the dirtsheets, even by accident, would kill the plan. But Brad said, “No, you can’t do that; you can’t keep the secret from him.” Brad was still trying to make it work. So I pulled Russo in and told him what the deal was in front of Hogan. Russo went, “Okay, great. That’s what you want to do? Great.” The plan was set. He fully understood everything we were going to do. I thought.

Hogan compromised a little with Jeff Jarrett on how the match ended, but to me it was irrelevant. As long as it ended with him saying, “Screw you, WCW,” and me running out the door after him like I was trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, it didn’t matter to me. We went out and did what we were supposed to do. Jeff Jarrett lay down. Hogan, disgusted, denounced us all. He told me to take the company and stick it, then jumped in his limo. I ran after him, yelling, “No, no, wait.” I jumped in the car, and it took off. In Business for Himself We were laughing our asses off. We high-fived each other and congratulated each other. We thought we had a really good plan.

The Pay-Per-View was over with, so there was no reason for us to go back to the building. Hogan and I drove to the airport and hopped on his plane to fly back to Tampa. When the plane landed maybe twenty or thirty minutes later, both of our phones were lit up with calls. We quickly learned that right after Hogan and I left, Russo got on the microphone and went into business for himself. He said, basically, Hulk Hogan is a piece of shit, he’s never going to work for this company again. He vented, burying Hogan in slanderous terms. He then set up an immediate championship match, completely at odds with what we had worked out. Booker T pinned Jeff Jarrett in what Russo declared was the championship match. He’d rebooked the show and pulled the rug out from under the entire tournament plan. It didn’t make any sense, but he did it. We were stunned. We couldn’t believe that Russo would be so stupid and arrogant to take it on himself to change the finish. Hogan was livid.