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Road Wild

Hog Wild
Hog Wild.jpg
VHS cover featuring Hulk Hogan
Tagline(s) Ain't No Easy Riders Here
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Promotion World Championship Wrestling
Date August 10, 1996
Attendance 5,000
Venue Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
City Sturgis, South Dakota
Pay-per-view chronology
Bash At The Beach (1996) Hog Wild Fall Brawl (1996)
Road Wild chronology
First Hog Wild Road Wild (1997)
Road Wild (1997)
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Tagline(s) It's Gonna Be Wild
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Promotion World Championship Wrestling
Date August 9, 1997
Attendance 6,500
Venue Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
City Sturgis, South Dakota
Pay-per-view chronology
Bash at the Beach (1997) Road Wild (1997) Fall Brawl (1997)
Road Wild chronology
Hog Wild (1996) Road Wild (1997) Road Wild (1998)
Road Wild (1998)
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VHS cover featuring Jay Leno and Diamond Dallas Page
Tagline(s)

Road Fast. Road Hard.

No One Knows Where This Road Goes.
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Promotion World Championship Wrestling
Date August 8, 1998
Attendance 8,500
Venue Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
City Sturgis, South Dakota
Pay-per-view chronology
Bash at the Beach (1998) Road Wild (1998) Fall Brawl (1998)
Road Wild chronology
Road Wild (1997) Road Wild (1998) Road Wild (1999)
Road Wild (1999)
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VHS cover Featuring Goldberg, Rick Steiner, Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash
Tagline(s) WCW Hits The Road
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Promotion World Championship Wrestling
Date August 14, 1999
Attendance 5,500
Venue Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
City Sturgis, South Dakota
Pay-per-view chronology
Bash at the Beach (1999) Road Wild (1999) Fall Brawl (1999)
Road Wild chronology
Road Wild (1998) Road Wild (1999) Final

Road Wild (originally known as Hog Wild) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that was held from 1996 to 1999. It was a free event held in Sturgis, South Dakota during the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. After the first event, WCW changed the name to Road Wild because of a potential trademark issue with the Harley-Davidson club Harley Owners Group (HOG). In 2000, it was replaced by New Blood Rising. Hulk Hogan appeared in the main event of all four editions of the event.

WrestleCrap writer Art O'Donnell criticised the event as a "financial blunder" and said that WCW held "a yearly pay-per-view at a biker rally with zero live gate just because Eric [Bischoff] loves motorcycles".

Since 2001, WWE (through its subsidiary WCW, Inc.) owns the rights to the event. In 2015, All WCW pay-per-views were made available on the WWE Network.

Hog Wild took place on August 10, 1996 from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. The VHS cover showed Hulk Hogan in his Hulkster pose despite the fact that he, along with Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, formed the nWo one month prior. The first eight matches aired on WCW Saturday Night on TBS. This event happened on a Saturday, instead of the normal Sunday night.

Madusa defeated Bull Nakano; both women had their shoulders down, but Madusa lifted her right shoulder off the canvas before the referee reached the three-count. Due to a pre-match stipulation, Madusa was allowed to destroy Nakano's Japanese motorcycle with a sledgehammer. In the main event Hollywood Hogan pinned The Giant after hitting him with the title belt while the referee was distracted from an interfering Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. After the match, The Booty Man came to the ring with an nWo T-shirt on and a birthday gift for Hogan; Hogan acted as if Booty Man was going to join the group, but turned on him and beat him down with Hall and Nash. Hogan then spray-painted “nWo” on the front of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt.


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