This video shouldn't really come as much of a surprise, as even the start of Hulk Hogan and The Giant's feud was based in ridiculousness. However, until now I hadn't realized how extremely crazy all of the events of Halloween Havoc 1995 were, and so I'd like to post them here so that everyone can truly understand the absurdity that was WCW and the Hogan-Giant Feud at Halloween Havoc '95 (Many thanks to the Powerdriver Review for this One).
Okay, so I guess The Giant's original beef with Hogan was that Hogan had defeated Andre the Giant many years back. Doesn't totally make sense that all Wrestling Giants are related (Are John Tenta and Jose Gonzalez brothers?), but whatever, that's the least ridiculous part of all this.
Anyways, so one day Hulk is chilling outside of Monday Nitro on a motorcycle. And while he's giving an interview to Mean Gene in front of all these fans, The Giant suddenly arrives in a monster truck. Everyone runs out of the way, but The Giant runs over Hulk's motorcycle over and over again. Then Hulk kind of whines and beats the side of the monster truck while The Giant laughs maniacly. Already weird.
So this leads to a monster truck battle between these two guys on the top of a building at Halloween Havoc '95. The battle itself is kind of lame, but after it ends The Giant attacks Hogan and tries to throw him off the roof. And in the melee (at one point Hulk kind of slows his attack to let the Giant climb up on the ledge, it's too cute), Hulk accidentally pushes The Giant off of the building. Nooooo!
It's okay though. After another match, Hogan comes in to his scheduled fight with the Giant, explaining to everyone that, whoops, The Giant fell. Except don't worry, because all of a sudden The Giant enters the arena. They fight for a while before an absurd amount of interference, which culminates in a previously mentioned gimmick, that of The Yeti coming in and giving the Hulkster a big old hug. As if that wasn't ridiculous enough, the match then goes in favor of the Giant (they give Hogan a disqualification because his manager Jimmy Hart originally knocked out the ref, even though Hart hit Hogan while the Ref was down) AND he gets to keep the belt (because apparently Hogan's contract said that he could lose the belt on a disqualification).
And that's how it happened. Why the WCW lasted beyond it's first show is beyond me, because it seems like every second they were coming up with some totally absurd gimmick like this.
Gotta Love a Gimmick - Hulk Hogan Cries Like a Baby, Throws The Giant off a Building
