Featured the return of Ric Flair to TV after being kept off for months due to WCW boss Eric Bischoff suing him after Flair had missed a TV appearance. This also marked the reformation of The Four Horsemen, a year to the day that they had been destroyed in the War Games match at WCW Fall Brawl: War Games (1997). This new version comprised Flair, Chris Benoit, Steve "Mongo" Michael (Steve McMichael) and new addition Dean Malenko, with Arn Anderson as manager. Bischoff interrupted Flair's promo and Flair called him an "obnoxious overbearing asshole," "a cheat" "a scam" and accused him of "abuse of power."
The previous night at WCW/NWO Fall Brawl: War Games (1998), Perry Saturn defeated Raven (Scott Levy) in a match where, if Saturn won, Raven's Flock (Sick Boy (Scott Vick), Kidman (Peter Gruner), Lodi (Brad Cain), Riggs (Scotty Antol), Horace Boulder (Michael Bollea) and Kanyon (Chris Kanyon)) would be freed, but, if Raven won, Saturn would have to rejoin the Flock. Here, after Saturn defeated Kendall Windham), Raven said that the Flock had had their 24 hours of freedom and had to return to him. They walked away instead. Kanyon would remain with Raven for a few months until they split too.
Kaz Hayashi was supposed to challenge Juventud Guerrera (Eduardo Hernández) for the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship but he was injured. Saturn had told Kidman to go after the belt, and he did, winning his first of five (WCW and WWE) Cruiserweight Titles here.
During the Barbarian (Sione Vailahi)-The British Bulldog (Davey Boy Smith) match, commentators Tony Schiavone and Mike Tenay were talking about all the clues that Flair was there, and Larry Zbyszko (Larry Whistler) said, "Yeah, yeah, and if you play the record backward you hear 'Paul is dead'". That is a reference to the mysterious phrase at the end of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever," which is actually "Cranberry sauce."