With Hogan now the leader of the hottest heel faction, he needed one more piece to the puzzle and that was the WCW World Championship. So, two months later he would defeat the Giant to regain the WCW World Championship. Then in more non-sensical booking they threw Wight into the nWo stable, I’m not sure why they thought this was a good idea to this day. Not sure if the plan was if he is in the nWo he wouldn’t get a re-match against Hogan?
Wight would win the World War 3 Battle Royal and ask Hogan for a world title shot, which was granted the winner of WW3 but Hogan being the coward heel kicked Wight out of the nWo and he would go on to feud with Kevin Nash not Hogan. Then during the course of their feud, Nash would leave the nWo himself and form the nWo Wolfpac…well in typical WCW fashion they threw Wight back into Hogan’s nWo to feud with Nash and the Wolpac until Wight left WCW for the WWF.
From 1999-2006, Wight would go by the name The Big Show, and go on to hold World and tag titles in the WWF and was pushed as a top guy in main event feuds with everyone from Foley, Austin, Rock, Taker and Kane to just name a few. He was certainly more prominently featured on WWF TV than he was being used in WCW. Not to say all of his booking was home runs in the WWF but it was an improvement to being held back by Hogan’s and other stars politics in WCW being more afraid of maintaining their spot than the success of WCW.
During one of his character changes, they booked him as a comical impersonator, to presumably to add depth to the Big Show character so that he wasn’t just a giant like WCW portrayed him. One of the impersonations that he did in 2000 was a tribute to his idol, Hulk Hogan.
WCW would fold in March 2001 and of course Hogan would return to the WWE in 2002 and the two would cross paths in one of Hogan’s final WWE appearances in 2003. At the time, Hogan was wearing a mask calling himself, Mr. America. He’d leave the WWE in 2003.
