Spring Stampede (1998)
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The 1998 Spring Stampede was the third Spring Stampede pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event took place on April 19, 1998 from the Denver Coliseum in Denver, Colorado. The main event was a no disqualification match between Sting and Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
Featured matches on the undercard were Diamond Dallas Page versus Raven in a Raven's Rules match for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, Hollywood Hogan and Kevin Nash versus Roddy Piper and The Giant in a Baseball Bat on a Pole match and Lex Luger and Rick Steiner versus Scott Steiner and Buff Bagwell in a tag team match.
The event generated 275,000 ppv buys.[1]
Storylines
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[2]
One of the major storylines entering Spring Stampede was the continued fracturing of the New World Order. Tensions between Hollywood Hogan and Randy Savage had been building for weeks, and seemed to have reached a breaking point at SuperBrawl VIII in February. In his match against Lex Luger, Savage had to fight off an attack from several nWo members at Hogan's behest. Savage retaliated by costing Hogan his match with Sting for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship in the main event. The two met at Uncensored in March in a steel cage match that went to a no-contest, after which Savage declared on Nitro that he intended to take the title from Sting and take over leadership of the nWo from Hogan. The two would face Sting and Luger in the main event of the program, which ended in a disqualification and resulted in a brawl between Hogan and Savage at the end of the night.[3]
Hogan was also having problems with Kevin Nash, stemming from various mishaps between the two and the firing of Syxx from WCW earlier in the year. The two were signed to face Roddy Piper and The Giant in a match at Spring Stampede[3] where a metal baseball bat would be hung from a pole and could be used once grabbed.
| Role: | Name: |
|---|---|
| Commentators | Tony Schiavone |
| Bobby Heenan | |
| Mike Tenay | |
| Interviewer | Gene Okerlund |
| Ring announcers | Michael Buffer |
| David Penzer | |
| Referees | Mickie Henson |
| Charles Robinson | |
| Nick Patrick | |
| Billy Silverman |
Reception
In 2016, Kevin Pantoja of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 4.5 [Poor], stating, "There was certainly some potential on this show. The Television Title, United States Title and Chavo/Ultimo Dragon matches were good stuff. Most of the event was filled with the classic WCW overbooking and referee bumps. There were a few matches that were absolutely dreadful, but there are some things worth a look. Check out the matches I mentioned and skip the rest."[4]
Results
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WCW Pay-Per-View Buys". Wrestlenomics. Retrieved October 15, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WCW Monday Nitro – 1998 Results". The History of WWE. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."411Mania".
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