On September 15, 1996 WCW’s 4th annual “Fall Brawl: War Games” took place in front of 11,300 fans from the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In the main event Team nWo (Hollywood Hogan, Scot Hall, Kevin Nash & nWo Sting with Ted DiBiase) took on Team WCW (Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger & Sting) in a WarGames Match. Due to the tension caused by the nWo's presence in WCW, a modification to the traditional WarGames Match rules was made. Instead of both t

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Today In Wrestling History September 16 1996 – Sting turned his back on #WCW. This was part of the ongoing storyline involving a ‘fake Sting’. The Stinger cut a promo telling his fellow stars and the fans off for doubting him. This led him to his famous gimmick change into ‘The Vigilante Sting’ draped in black with his Crow makeup and trusty baseball bat around a month later. It is also worth noting that it was on this episode of Nitro that Sean Waltman (better known as X-Pac or the 1-2-3 Kid) m