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The Fingerpoke of Doom or FPOD is a nickname〔 for an infamous〔〔 incident in American professional wrestling that happened on January 4, 1999 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, during a live broadcast of ''WCW Monday Nitro'', the flagship show of World Championship Wrestling. The incident occurred during the main event of ''Nitro'', featuring WCW World Heavyweight Champion Kevin Nash, who was the leader of the Wolfpac faction of the New World Order (nWo), and Hollywood Hogan, the leader of the Hollywood faction of the nWo, with whom Nash and his group had been feuding since April 1998 when the original faction split up, and Hogan had "retired" from wrestling. The Wolfpac faction were fan favorites (babyfaces), while the Hollywood faction were villains (or, heels; as was the original nWo). The match saw Hogan poke Nash in the chest with his index finger, prompting Nash to fall (quite theatrically) to the mat and allow Hogan to pin him; the victory marked the reunion of both nWo factions into one villainous group. During the same broadcast, WCW announcer Tony Schiavone gave away the results of rival program ''WWF Raw'', revealing that wrestler Mick Foley was set to win the WWF Championship. Although this revelation was meant to deter ''Nitro'' viewers from switching to ''Raw'', it instead reportedly prompted 600,000 fans to change channels in order to see Foley's victory, with most viewers only tuning back into Nitro when there were five minutes left in the broadcast. The incident was named ''The Fingerpoke of Doom'' both for Nash's over-selling the finger poke, and for the negative ramifications the incident had for the company as a whole, with some wrestling journalists crediting it as the beginning of WCW's ultimate downfall and loss of the Monday Night Wars. ==Setup== The match was directly related to a controversial main event that occurred at Starrcade 1998, during which Kevin Nash pinned Goldberg to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. At the time of the match, Goldberg had been undefeated in his WCW career; and his defeat, which came about due to the interference of Nash's former tag-team partner Scott Hall, came as a great disappointment to fans. The following evening, Nash professed dissatisfaction with Hall's interference, and offered Goldberg a rematch for the following edition of ''Nitro'' in Atlanta. However, Goldberg was arrested halfway through the three hour ''Nitro'' at the Georgia Dome and accused of "aggravated stalking" by Miss Elizabeth (Goldberg was originally to have been accused of rape, but refused to go along with that particular storyline). Although Goldberg was later released when Elizabeth could not keep her story straight, he would not make it back to the arena in time to compete against Nash; it was noted in "The Death of WCW" by R.D. Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez that the entire skit was proven to make no sense after it was revealed that the police station was across the street from the Georgia Dome.〔Reynolds, R.D.; Alvarez, Bryan. "The Death of WCW", ECW Press, 200〕 Meanwhile, Hollywood Hogan, who had "retired" one month prior, showed up for the first time since his retirement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=WrestleView )〕 At the time, Hogan and Nash had been onscreen enemies since April 1998, when Nash broke away from Hogan's nWo stable in order to form his own rival faction, ''nWo Wolfpac''; Nash became a fan favorite, and Hogan the villain while continuing to lead his own nWo faction, "nWo Hollywood". In Goldberg's absence, Nash offered the title shot to Hogan, although Hogan professed to only have street clothes in which to compete. Hogan nonetheless accepted the offer. Hogan came out to the ring accompanied by "Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner, who had taken over the leadership role in nWo Hollywood. Nash came out next, then revealed a surprise to Hogan and the crowd by stopping at the end of the entrance ramp and pointing backwards. The surprise was Hall, who had been a part of nWo Hollywood for most of the last seven months and who entered wearing a Wolfpac T-shirt. This marked the reunion of The Outsiders, who had broken up as a team at Slamboree in May 1998. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fingerpoke of Doom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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