WCW Monday Nitro, 1997

[Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko review the Piper/Hogan match footage at Starrcade 1996 that Eric Bischoff confiscated and was somehow played, but when the tape suddenly stops as if it was taken off playback, just as Randy Anderson was about to count off Hogan as submitting to Piper...]

Tony Schiavone:
What's going on here?

Zbyszko:
Well that wasn't nothing...

Schiavone:
We did not get this - [talks to production crew on the headset] what happened? Can anybody tell me what happened? The tape stopped? The tape broke?

Zbyszko:
Well what happened was -

Schiavone:
Someone's getting the tape in the production truck.

Zbyszko:
Who's in the truck?

Schiavone:
We're trying to find out fans, I apologize. I'm just talking to Craig Leathers, Keith Mitchell, in our video production truck. Someone apparently went and you hear the tape queueing up. You saw right there, I mean the hand was going up and it was gonna be the end of Hollywood Hulk Hogan with the sleeper. We all witnessed what happened, Eric Bischoff went into the video truck and grabbed the tape.

Zbyszko:
Well, anyway, the world saw what happened, we knew about it, now the missing footage had been recovered and what happened-

[Eric Bischoff confronts the announcers with the tape]

Eric Bischoff:
Don't you ever, don't you EVER, EVER, pull a stunt like that again. You or anybody else in this organization [puts down mic and starts tearing out the tape] ever, ever again. [leaves]

Schiavone:
We'll take a break.

Zbyszko:
He could beat up a tape, that's impressive!