In reality, Hogan and Eric Bischoff, the executive vice president of WCW, disagreed over the outcome of the match. Sting soon showed his opposition to the nWo, and challenged Hogan to a match for the title at Starrcade. He watched from the rafters of arenas, and did not speak his thoughts. Most of the WCW programming in 1997 revolved around Sting, whose character changed into a mysterious avenger. Hollywood Hogan, the leader of the nWo, had been the WCW World Heavyweight Champion for most of the preceding year. Since its formation in July 1996, the New World Order (nWo) organization had been a dominant force. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters to build tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. The event consisted of matches resulting from scripted feuds and storylines. Hollywood Hogan, the WCW World Heavyweight Champion, before his match at Starrcade Despite its success, however, the card is seen as pivotal to the downfall of WCW, as it set a tone for backstage dissension and poor creative decisions going forward. The event became the highest-grossing pay-per-view in WCW history. Other matches included Larry Zbyszko and Eric Bischoff for the control of WCW Monday Nitro, and Curt Hennig and Diamond Dallas Page for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship. The match ended in controversy over the referee's pinfall count, and their feud continued after the event surrounding this. The match culminated a year-long buildup of their feud. The main event was between Hollywood Hogan and Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, with Hogan representing the nWo and Sting representing WCW. The matches revolved around the ongoing storyline between WCW and the New World Order (nWo) organization.
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Starrcade (1997) was the fifteenth annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event, produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) on December 28, 1997, at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. Promotional poster featuring Hollywood Hogan and Sting