Seventeen years ago yesterday, the New World Order became whole, as Hulk Hogan leg-dropped Randy Savage and joined with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, kick-starting the best and most iconic storyline in wrestling in the mid-'90s. What started out as a jaw-dropping moment in time turned into a sprawling morass of excess over time. There have been several points where the story should have ended (the biggest flaw of it was that it never did really end), but if it were up to me, I would have picked this match for a logical conclusion. Bill Goldberg, the undefeated, homegrown star, destroying Hogan for the WCW Championship, exactly one year and 364 days after the nWo really began, would have been poignant, a true star-making performance.
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