On May 27, 1996 — about two years before Google was founded and a few years after the invention of the telephone — Scott Hall famously invaded WCW Nitro. Up to that point he’d been known to wrestling audiences as Razor Ramon, who was more or less the WWF’s less murderous version of Tony Montana. He still had his trademark toothpick sticking out of his mouth, but as Cageside Seats describes, he had left Vince McMahon’ company. Only, no one in the audience knew that. Hall called out billionaire Ted Turner and mocked the Macho Man, hiding the fact that was now working for Turner and with the Macho Man.

With the wrestling world now on edge, the master of the Razor’s Edge hinted that he didn’t come alone. He was joined by fellow hellraiser Kevin Nash two weeks later. The duo would call themselves the outsiders but become company insiders, teaming up with Hulk Hogan to form the New World Order. They would seek to be the three horsemen of the WWF apocalypse. But why did Nash tag along? As Bleacher Report points out, the wrestler formerly known as “Big Daddy Cool” Diesel had wrestled in WCW before with a bunch of uncool gimmicks, including Oz — as in the charlatan from The Wizard of Oz, except stupid. Why go back to that?