Match
The match started with the two men circling each other. Nash tried intimidating Hogan by pushing him hard into the corner. In retaliation, Hogan then faked a punch and poked Nash in the chest, causing Nash to quickly and dramatically fall to the mat on his back (in the book The Death of WCW, RD Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez compared Nash's fall to "getting hit in the chest with a cannonball"). Hogan then covered him for a pin and was declared the new WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
After this occurred, Hall and Steiner entered the ring and celebrated with Nash and Hogan to signify the Wolfpac and Hollywood factions were reuniting into one nWo. As Hogan had done before each time he had won the title since August 1996, he spray-painted the belt's faceplate with "NWO". However, to signify the reunion, Hogan did this with red spray paint instead of the black paint he usually used.
Goldberg then reentered the building and ran to the ring to attack the reunited nWo members. Wolfpac member Lex Luger followed him, appearing to assist him, but instead jumped Goldberg from behind and showed he was also part of the reunited nWo. The show ended with Goldberg being handcuffed to the ropes, repeatedly shocked with a taser, and having "nWo" painted in red and black paint all over his back. As the nWo was doing this a loud "we want Sting" chant erupted from the fans in the Georgia Dome, hoping that Sting would come to rescue Goldberg and even things up for WCW. However, Sting had been out since Bret Hart attacked him at Halloween Havoc in October and would not appear again until March 1999; by that time the nWo reunion story had largely petered out in favor of Ric Flair taking control of WCW, and most of the nWo members had been sidelined due to injuries.
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