It ' s all gud , hippos eat plants <| sep |> This makes me sad '<| sep |> They could ' ve still had this match be the main event , but they should ' ve put the World title on someone else to defend at Starrcade . The Giant was # 1 contender so they easily could ' ve put it on him on Nitro to defend against Luger before Hogan vs Piper . And it would ' ve made sense storywise . I was a WWF kid so I never watched WCW until it folded , but was their booking always this dumb ? I know about their later years , but didn ' t think their booking was stupid until WWF started getting higher ratings . They had all the tools in place to have a World title match at Starrcade , and still have Piper beat Hogan . But instead they decided to have a non title main event .