Hollywood Hogan vs. Roddy Piper

"This is the worst of both Piper and Hogan, avoid at all costs, unless you enjoy bad "brawling" between two 100 yr old guys. Crazy 'cause they had a quite good match months earlier. No wonder WWF had a field day calling out WCW for being land of grandpas waiting for paycheck. Lazy boring, long match. Finish made everyone look stupid except, you guessed it, Hogan. I like Hulkster, but goddamn is he impossible to defend here. In my opinion, this match ended Piper's credibility as major main event game changer and made people crave for end of Hogan's reign ever more. Think of any cheap move wrestler can do and this one is compilation of it, and then some and nothing else."

[0.0] "Utter dogshit. Boy howdy was the NWO a product of its time. This was just embarrassing. Hogan and Piper were barely even trying here; they just sloppily brawled as one would expect. The most technically complex thing they did was a bear hug, despite the fact that neither of them took a bump so I'm not sure why they needed to resort to a rest hold unless they were both totally out of shape. The Savage turn was the most predictable thing of all time; they didn't even try to make it suspenseful given Savage came to the ring in a black and white jacket. Wow. I wonder who he's going to side with? ! Crap. Crap. Crap. 1/4*"

[5.0] "Another good match from these two, but unfortunately this one had a really confusing finish. Even the commentators weren't sure what happened, let alone the live audience that didn't understand anything. Up to that point they were doing a good job and fans were really invested, chanting loudly for Piper. The swerve could have been done a little better though."

[4.0] "Sting and Randy Savage appear again, only this time Savage interferes on Hogan's behalf and costs Piper the match. The match itself was lacking, but I did like Savage being in the nWo throughout 1997. Piper should have been done years before this. Ugh."

[5.0] "I get what people are saying, the in ring quality is obviously nothing special, but it was a decent brawl in parts where you felt like Piper wanted to hurt Hogan, and I've enjoyed the build to their matches , and it had a nice turn to it with Savage joining up with Hogan - keeping the story with Savage/Sting and the NWO very intriguing."

[0.0] "Ouch this was shite, two drunk uncles having a scrap at your wedding. Pipers big spots are clapping behind Hogans ears like he is trying to entertain a particularly bored but simple for his age 2 year old. Fuck finish to add to our fun too."

[1.0] "Hulk Hogan bullshit, and it is ESPECIALLY bad here, I did like Randy joining the nWo, but it would have been better if the match wasnt so bad."

[4.0] "This main event wasn't that bad. It was still very average. The action was okay. Randy Savage showed up."

[1.0] "Come on, were you really expecting a Hogan/Piper match in the year of our lord 1997 to be good? Brawling without any of the energy that makes brawling good. Typical nWo Hogan overbooking. A really flat finish that ends with Savage deciding he wants to be Hogan's lackey again but a heel this time, and a screwjob that is not played out because Hogan decided he wanted to win clean even though everyone else is desperately trying to pretend he didn't."

[5.0] "Psycho Piper actually kind of took it to Hogan early in the match, which was pretty entertaining. However the match kind of started to lose steam, went on a tad too long and the finish looked almost botched and was very confusing."

[3.0] "Piper trained for this match by living like a homeless guy on Alcatraz for a week or something and Heean makes a dumb comment about how he can smell Piper even when they are 50 yards away. Two old guys make vague attempts to punch each other then Sting and Savage who have been hanging out in the rafters for weeks walk to ringside. Sting leaves but Savage hangs around then helps Hogan retain the title. The Hogan/Piper matches from 97 were just terrible! Piper was way past his prime and he wasn't great in the ring to begin with and Hogan was in super lazy boy mode. Throw in the overbooking with Savage joining the NWO and being Hogan's side kick again and you got a recipe for a lousy main event!"

[6.0] "Honestly am very surprised by the hate for this match, it was fine. Brawl with some fun little spots and i did enjoy the ending"

[3.0] "Two words describe this match: dirty and sloppy. Sometimes that's for the better, and sometimes it's for the worse. I enjoyed this more than their Starrcade match because the style better suited their feud and their current ring shapes. The finish is executed fine, but commentary messed up the call and made it more confusing for audiences imo. This is still however, far from a masterpiece."

[0.0] "long, silly, bad ending and scrappy. nothing here makes sense, one of the worst in WCW history and a stain on the careers of those involved, especially Pipper"

[0.0] "Barely a match of any sort here, Piper looked awful - I can only imagine the Alcatraz angle was to try to cover for that - and Hogan spent most of the match running away. Add to that the worst overbooked bullshit ending, clearly done because nothing else worked for Hogan, brother, and you have another terrible main event."

[0.0] "The Hogan vs Piper rivalry should have stopped at Starcade this was not needed at all in any form. Hogan gets a lot of undeserved blame from fans but for this match I can see why. Bottom of the barrel Hogan match it looked like two homeless crack addicts trying to fight only spot that I felt looked real was the sleeper hold and then whoa wild finish with the brass knucks Brother! Bullshit galore!"

[1.0] "One of the worst Heavyweight title matches I've ever seen. Piper never took any bumps, looked like he even no-sold a leg smash against the ring by Hogan, and Piper's main offense was eye pokes and punches. Much worse than their Starrcade match, oh and the finish was overbooked (which is probably a given at this point) and confusing."

[2.0] "While their Starrcade '96 match actually succeeded well enough, this rematch was pointless and not good. You can kind of get what Piper was going for with the Alcatraz angle but mainly it made him feel weird and disconnected from everything else going on."