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Scott Hall appears on Nitro promising a "takeover". The next week, Kevin Nash appears and promises the same thing. They attack people for the next month or so (most notably powerbombing Eric Bischoff through a table) until challenged by Sting, Lex Luger, and Randy Savage to a six-man tag at Bash at the Beach. Nash and Hall - at this point only "The Outsiders" - accept, and say their third man will be revealed later.

Hall and Nash are victorious when their third man is revealed to be Hulk Hogan, who over time adopts the new persona of "Hollywood" Hogan. The newly-christened New World Order begins attacking WCW wrestlers viciously. The first new members to arrive are Ted DiBiase (acting as a manager and "money man") and Vincent (acting as "head of security"). At Road Wild, Hollywood Hogan defeats the Giant by cheating outrageously to win the WCW World title. Strangely, the Giant joins the nWo two weeks later, citing the money as his primary reason. Also at Road Wild, the Booty Man tries to join, but is beaten up.

The next member of the nWo appears when they debut a "Fake Sting" at Wargames, who wrestles ittermitently over the next few months until the original Fake Sting, now called "nWo Sting", goes to compete in Japan as part of their version of the nWo. The Nasty Boys try to join the nWo as well, but are beaten up for their trouble. Although he is in fact the seventh member, Sean Waltman joins in November as Syxx.

The nWo announces a "membership drive", giving "all WCW wrestlers" the chance to join the nWo. In order, the wrestlers accepting this offer are Marcus Bagwell (soon redubbed "Buff"), Michael Wallstreet, Big Bubba, and Scott Norton. Also, Eric Bischoff is revealed as being an nWo member around this time, and Masa Chono and the Great Muta, visiting from New Japan Pro Wrestling, join the North American nWo (although they have little effect). At the same time, Giant is kicked out for demanding a title shot from Hulk Hogan.

Randy Savage joins the nWo at SuperBrawl. Newly appointed WCW Commissioner J.J. Dillon says that according to their contracts, Big Bubba and Michael Wallstreet cannot be members of the nWo. Amidst great hype, Dennis Rodman "joins" the nWo, despite wrestling only one match that year as a celebrity guest at Bash at the Beach. Konnan joins the nWo in August. Ted DiBiase quits the nWo and becomes a manager for the Steiner brothers.

Curt Hennig joins the nWo after turning on the Four Horsemen at WarGames. Rick Rude joins in December. Bret Hart is invited to join the nWo, but declines. The Disciple joins sometime in January, although he is not named until March. Dusty Rhodes joins at Souled Out after turning on Larry Zybysko. Bryan Adams joins in January after turning on Bret Hart. Scott Steiner joins in February after turning on his brother Rick. During most of January, Louie Spicolli acts as a flunky to Scott Hall and wears an nWo t-shirt, although he is never "officially" inducted into the nWo before his death. Syxx disappears when Sean Waltman is fired by WCW.

Randy Savage and Kevin Nash, having issues with Hollywood Hogan, form the nWo "splinter faction": nWo Wolfpac. Curt Hennig and Konnan immediately join, as do longtime nWo foes Lex Luger and Sting; they immediately distinguish themselves from the "traditional" nWo (now known as nWo Hollywood or nWo Black-And-White) by wearing black-and-red T-shirts rather than black-and-white. Scott Hall is invited to join the Wolfpac, but refuses. Giant rejoins nWo Hollywood.

Curt Hennig quits the nWo Wolfpac to rejoin nWo Hollywood. Randy Savage is injured and disappears from the Wolfpac. Dennis Rodman once again is trumpeted as a member of the nWo for a celebrity match at Bash At The Beach. Stevie Ray joins nWo Hollywood in September. The Disciple quits nWo Hollywood in October to join the "One Warrior Nation". Horace Hogan joins nWo Hollywood at Halloween Havoc. Bret Hart seemingly joins, quits, and rejoins nWo Hollywood several times during this period, and never wears an nWo shirt or explicitly states his membership in the nWo.

Hollywood Hogan announces his "retirement", and Scott Steiner becomes the leader of nWo Hollywood. Scott Hall is kicked out of nWo Hollywood in November, but despite his efforts is not allowed to join nWo Wolfpac. Disco Inferno starts claiming he is a member of the Wolfpac.

Hollywood Hogan comes out of "retirement" to "beat" Kevin Nash in a thrown match for the WCW World title and reform the nWo as one single entity. The Wolfpac is now an "elite rank" of the nWo: its members are Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Lex Luger, Buff Bagwell, and Scott Steiner. The remainder of the nWo (Giant, Curt Hennig, Vincent, Stevie Ray, Bryan Adams, Scott Norton, and Horace Hogan) continues wearing the black-and-white, while the Wolfpac wears black, white, and red. The Wolfpac also seems to be conducting a gradual elimination of the black-and-white (also referred to as "the nWo B-Team"); at this writing, both the Giant and Curt Hennig have received turfing-out beatdowns, with more likely to come. Konnan has been explicitly kicked out of the nWo entire. Sting's status is unknown. Bret Hart's nWo membership is entirely forgotten.

With Scott Hall in retirement, Hulk Hogan back in semi-retirement, and Bagwell turfed from the group, the only members left are Lex Luger, Kevin Nash and Scott Steiner, and possibly Disco Inferno. Steiner and Nash rarely do anything nWo-related (besides use the Wolfpac music). The nWo black-and-white is whittled down to Vincent, Horace Hogan, Stevie Ray and Bryan Adams, with Scott Norton doing his own thing without the nWo name. Soon after, Horace Hogan is fired, Bryan Adams is repackaged, Stevie Ray leaves to reform Harlem Heat, and Vincent joins the West Texas Rednecks, thus finally ending the group’s legacy once and for all.

The concept was originally started by Scott Hall, who "invaded" WCW on the first two-hour Nitro in May of 1996 (see "Monday Night Wars") and declared that they were taking over, although he didn't note who "they" were. The implication was that is was a WWF takeover, which led to a later lawsuit and was publicly denied by Hall at the "Great American Bash" PPV in 1996. Kevin Nash joined him two weeks after he debuted, and the two of them promised a third man at the "Bash at the Beach" PPV in July. The third man was Hulk Hogan, who coined the phrase "New World Order" during his heel turn interview, although in a nebulous and roundabout way. Commentators Bobby Heenan and Larry Zbyzsko later officially named them the nWo, building on Hogan's speech, and the rest is history.

Off-and-on booker Paul Orndorff is Gene Okerlundrally credited with the creation of the "invasion" angle, and Nitro booker Terry Taylor is credited with coming up with the details (the t-shirt selling, the black and white, the attitude). Hulk Hogan was given much leeway in his own angles (as usual) and improvised a great deal of the mannerisms and catchphrases (as did Hall and Nash). And it should be noted that Eric Bischoff had almost NOTHING to do with the nWo's creation, although he often takes credit for it regardless by stating that it was based on where else.


Members of the nWo:

Year
Wrestlers

1996
Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Ted DiBiase, Eric Bischoff, Syxx, Scott Norton, Mr. Wallstreet, Big Bubba Rogers, Buff Bagwell, Masahiro Chono, nWo Sting, Vincent, The Giant

1997
Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Syxx, Eric Bischoff, Rick Rude, Scott Norton, Konnan, Buff Bagwell, Hiroshi Tenzan, Keiji Muto, Masa Hiro Chono, Scott Norton, Randy Savage, Miss Elizabeth, Dennis Rodman, Vincent

1998 (Black and White)
Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Curt Hennig, Rick Rude, Scott Steiner, Brian Adams, Horace Hogan, Scott Norton, Eric Bischoff, Dusty Rhodes, Bret Hart, Louie Spicolli, Konnan, Dennis Rodman, Miss Elizabeth, Buff Bagwell, Tenzan, Muto, Chono, Saito, The Disciple, Stevie Ray.

1998 (Wolfpac)
Kevin Nash, Sting, Lex Luger, Curt Hennig, Rick Rude, Konnan, Randy Savage.

1999 (Wolfpac)
Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Buff Bagwell, Scott Steiner, The Disco Inferno, Eric Bischoff, Lex Luger.

1999 (Black and White)
Scott Norton, Stevie Ray, Brian Adams, Curt Hennig, Horace Hogan, The Giant, Vincent.

nWo Japan
Masa Chono, Keiji Muto, Mr. Wallstreet, Big Titan, nWo Sting, Hiro Saito, Ohara, Hiroshi Tenzan, Scott Norton, Brian Adams.

nWo (Since December 1999)
Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Bret Hart, Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, Ron Harris, Don Harris




Current and Past nWo Members and The Major Titles They Held:

Member
Major Titles

David Flair
WCW United States Title, WCW World Tag Team Title, NWA World Tag Team Title, NWA Georgia Tag Team Title

Scott Hall
AWA World Tag Team Title, WWF Intercontinental Title (4 Times), WCW World Tag Team Title (4 Times), WCW United States Title, WCW World TV Title

Disco Inferno
WCW World TV Title (2 Times), WCW World Cruiserweight Title

Buff Bagwell
WCW World Tag Team Title (5 Times)

Bret "H itman" Hart
WWF World Tag Team Title (2 Times), WWF Intercontinental Title (2 Times), WWF World Title (5 Times), WCW United States Title (4 Times), WCW World Title, WCW World Tag Team Title

Curt Hennig
AWA World Tag Team Title, AWA World Title, WWF Intercontinental Title (2 Times), WCW United States Title, WCW World Tag Team Title

"Hollywood" Hulk Hogan
IWGP Title WWF World Title (5 Times), WCW World Title (6 Times)

Jeff Jarrett
WWF Intercontinental Title (6 Times), WCW United States Title (2 Times), NWA North American Title, WWF World Tag Team Title, WWF European Title, WCW World Heavyweight Title (4 Times)

Konnan
CMLL World Title, WCW United States Title, WCW World Television Title, WCW World Tag Team Title (2 Times)

Lex Luger
NWA World Tag Team Title, WCW World Title (2 Times), WCW World Tag Team Title, WCW World Television Title (2 Times), WCW United States Title (2 Times), NWA United States Title (4 Times)

Kevin Nash
WWF Intercontinental Title, WWF World Tag Team Title, WWF World Title, WCW World Tag Team Title (6 Times), WCW World Title (5 Times)

V.K. Wall
WWF World Tag Team Title (5 Times), NWA World TV Title (2 Times), NWA World Tag Team Title

"Macho Man" Randy Savage
WWF Intercontinental Title, WWF World Title (2 Times), WCW World Title (5 Times)

Scott Steiner
NWA World Tag Team Title, NWA United States Tag Team Title, WCW World Tag Team Title (5 Times), IWGP Tag Team Title (2 Times), WCW World Television Title (2 Times), WWF World Tag Team Title (2 Times), WCW United States Title (2 Times), WCW World Heavyweight Title

Stevie Ray
WCW World Tag Team Title (10 Times)

Sting
NWA World Television Title, NWA World Title, WCW United States Title (2 Times), WCW World Title (6 Times), WCW International World Title (2 Times), WCW World Tag Team Title (3 Times)

Big Bubba Rogers
UWF World Heavyweight Title, WWF Hardcore Title (4 Times), WWF World Tag Team Title

The Giant
WCW World Title (2 Times), WCW World Tag Team Title (2 Times), WWF World Tag Team Title (2 Times), WWF World Title, WWF Hardcore Title (2 Times)

Syxx
WWF World Tag Team Title (4 Times), WCW World Cruiserweight Title, WWF European Title (2 Times)

Brian Adams
WWF World Tag Team Title, WCW World Tag Team Title (2 Times)

The Disciple
WWF World Tag Team Title

Scott Norton
IWGP Tag Team Title (2 Times), IWGP Title (2 Times)

Dusty Rhodes
NWA World Tag Team Title (3 Times), NWA World Title (3 Times), NWA United States Title, NWA World Television Title (3 Times), NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Title (2 Times)

Ted DiBiase
WWWF North American Title, WWF World Tag Team Title (3 Times), All Japan World Tag Team Title

Masahiro Chono
IWGP Tag Team Title (5 Times), NWA World Title, IWGP Title

Tatsutoshi Goto
IWGP Tag Team Title

Satoshi Kojima
IWGP Tag Team Title (2 Times)

Keiji Muto (The Great Muta)
IWGP Tag Team Title (5 Times), NWA World Television Title, IWGP Title (3 Times), NWA World Title, WCW World Tag Team Title

Michiyoshi Ohara
IWGP Tag Team Title

Hiro Saito
NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title, IWGP Tag Team Title, WWF World Junior Heavyweight Title

Hiroyoshi Tenzan
IWGP Tag Team Title (4 Times)

Ron Harris
USWA Tag Team Title (6 Times),SMW Tag Team Title, WCW World Tag Team Title

Don Harris
USWA Tag Team Title (6 Times),SMW Tag Team Title, WCW World Tag Team Title

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