A firsthand account of the night Randy Savage joined the nWo

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: Randy Savage put his feelings for Hulk Hogan aside and joined the nWo at SuperBrawl VII. | (Photo: WWE) WWE’s week-long 30th anniversary celebration of the New World Order continued Wednesday, with footage uploaded to YouTube from the night Randy Savage shocked the world and essentially decided, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” The event was SuperBrawl VII, which took place February 23, 1997, at San Francisco’s historic Cow Palace. The main event was Hogan defending the WCW Championship against “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. I was there that night, floor level, seated about seven rows back from where WWE’s announcers sit today. To say pandemonium broke out would be an understatement, though depending on where you were sitting, it wasn’t immediately clear what had happened. Midway through the match, Savage and Sting emerged in the aisle. From my vantage point, I couldn’t see them, but as the Cow Palace began to rumble, word spread fast that the two were stan