On August 17, 1998 the Ultimate Warrior made his World Championship Wrestling debut on WCW Monday Nitro that aired on TNT from the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut. WCW signed Warrior to a $500,000 contract in May of 1998. He formed a stable opposing Hollywood Hulk Hogan's New World Order (nWo) called the "One Warrior Nation" using the initialism oWn as a play on the name nWo. The storyline included Warrior kidnapping and "converting" The Disciple and frequent instances of "magic s