Starrcade (1998) - Aftermath

Aftermath

Goldberg's match at Starrcade ended his undefeated streak. On the January 4 episode of WCW Monday Nitro, Kevin Nash was scheduled to face Goldberg in a rematch for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Goldberg was arrested, however, when he was falsely accused of stalking Elizabeth. Instead, Nash faced Hollywood Hogan, who had returned after a hiatus, purportedly to announce his retirement in the wake of his run for President of the United States, and offered to face Nash in place of Goldberg. Nash would lay down and allow Hogan to pin him, effectively handing the title to Hogan, in an incident infamously known as the "Fingerpoke of Doom". The match was followed by a reunion of the New World Order.

After Starrcade, Goldberg feuded with Scott Hall due to his interference in the match. They faced each other in a ladder match involving a stun gun at Souled Out. After Goldberg won the match, Bam Bam Bigelow came out and attacked Goldberg, and a feud started between them. It led to their match at SuperBrawl IX, where Goldberg defeated Bigelow to end their feud. The feud between Ric Flair and Eric Bischoff continued, with Hogan eventually becoming a part of the rivalry as well. The entire feud, which led to Flair gaining control of WCW for ninety days following a win the night after Starrcade, culminated with Flair's defeat of Hogan at Uncensored in March to take Hogan's championship and the presidency of WCW from Bischoff permanently. Flair would eventually lose both the World Heavyweight Championship (at Spring Stampede) and the WCW Presidency, the latter thanks to a returning Bischoff who had disappeared from television shortly after the Hogan-Flair match at Uncensored.