Memphis Great American Bash

September 30th 1985

Mid-South Coliseum

PPV Poster of the Week

Great American Bash 1990

"New Revolution"

July 7th 

Baltimore, MD

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Dark match: David Sierra defeated Mr. X (10:06)
  • Sierra pinned X.
• Brian Pillman defeated Buddy Landel (9:29)
  • Pillman pinned Landell.
• Mike Rotunda defeated The Iron Sheik (6:46)
  • Rotunda pinned Sheik.
• Doug Furnas defeated Dutch Mantel (11:18)
  • Furnas pinned Mantel.
• Harley Race defeated Tommy Rich (6:32)
  • Race pinned Rich.
• The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) defeated The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) to retain the NWA United States Tag Team Championship (18:14)
  • Eaton pinned Smothers.
• Big Van Vader defeated Tom Zenk (2:16)
  • Vader pinned Zenk.
  • This was Vader's WCW Debut.
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) (13:45)
  • Scott pinned Hayes.
• Paul Orndorff, The Junkyard Dog and El Gigante defeated The Four Horsemen (Sid Vicious, Arn Anderson and Barry Windham) by disqualification (8:53)
• Lex Luger defeated Mark Callous (with Paul E. Dangerously) to retain the NWA United States Championship (12:10)
  • Luger pinned Callous after a clothesline.
• Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed) (with Teddy Long) defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (15:40)
  • Reed pinned Gibson.
• Sting (with The Dudes with Attitudes) defeated Ric Flair (with Ole Anderson) to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (16:06)
  • Sting pinned Flair after countering his Figure-Four Leglock attempt into a small package.
  • During the Match, The Steiner Brothers, Paul Orndorff and The Junkyard Dog (the "Dudes with Attitudes") surrounded the ring to prevent outside interference by the Four Horsemen.
  • Also during the entirety of the match, Ole Anderson was handcuffed to El Gigante.

Magazine Cover of the Day

November 1990

Today in Wrestling History (July 8th)

Title Changes for July 8

1968 – Fritz Von Erich defeated Chris Markoff to win the NWA Brass Knuckles (Texas) Heavyweight Championship

1968 – Klondike Bill & Skull Murphy defeated Kintaro Ohki & Michiaki Yoshimura to win the JWA All-Asia Tag Team Championship

1972 – Handsome Johnny Valentine defeated Billy Red Lyons to win the NWA American Heavyweight Championship

1988 – Kevin & Kerry Von Erich and Michael P.S. Hayes defeated Buddy "Jack" Roberts, Iceman King Parsons & Kamala (subbing for Terry "Bamm Bamm" Gordy) to win the WCWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. This would be the final reign for the title before being abandoned later in the year

1991 – Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi defeated Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat to win the AJPW All-Asia Tag Team Championship

1991 – The Barroom Brawlers defeated Jeff Jarrett & Robert Fuller to win the USWA World Tag Team Championship

1996 – Rey Misterio, Jr. defeated Dean Malenko to win the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship at the Great American Bash, Baltimore MD.

2002 – Monday Night RAW in Philadelphia, Jeff Hardy defeated William Regal to win the WWE European Championship

2007 – Dos Caras, Jr. defeated Universo 2000 to win the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship

2008 – Tiger Mask IV defeated Prince Devitt in a tournament final to win the vacant NJPW IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

Today in Wrestling History (July 7th)

Sting wins his first NWA World Heavyweight Title

Stings pins Ric Flair at the Great American Bash in Baltimore MD, July 7th 1990

Sting would hold the title for 188 days before losing in rematch with Flair on January 11th 1991 in East Rutherford NJ.

UNITED WE SLAM - The Best of The Great American Bash (Blu-ray and DVD)

UNITED WE SLAM

(Best of The Great American Bash)

Available at Amazon

to be released July 15th 2014

(click the title to order)

3 Disc DVD

2 Disc Blu-ray

Match/content Listings that I have found so far

DISC 1

Bringing the Game Up a Level

NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. Nikita Koloff
Charlotte, NC * July 6, 1985
Exclusive Commentary Provided by Dusty Rhodes & Larry Zbyszko

#1 Contender's Match for the NWA World Tag Team Championship
Rock N' Roll Express vs. Arn & Ole Anderson
Greensboro, NC * July 26, 1986
Exclusive Commentary Provided by Dusty Rhodes & Larry Zbyszko

Steel Cage Match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
Ric Flair vs. Dusty Rhodes
Charlotte, NC * July 26, 1986
Exclusive Commentary Provided by Dusty Rhodes

Victory is Mine!

War Games Match
The Road Warriors, Dusty Rhodes, Nikita Koloff & Paul Ellering vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Lex Luger & JJ Dillon
Atlanta, GA * July 4, 1987

The Mighty Road Warriors

Sting & Lex Luger vs. Road Warriors
Charlotte, NC * July, 1988
Exclusive Commentary Provided by Dusty Rhodes & Larry Zbyszko

DISC 2

Double Header

NWA World Television Championship Match
Sting vs. The Great Muta
Baltimore, MD * July 23, 1989

NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk
Baltimore, MD * July 23, 1989

Birth of an Icon

NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. Sting
Baltimore, MD * July 7, 1990

Steiner Brothers vs. The Fabulous Freebirds
Baltimore, MD * July 7, 1990

Tag Team Turmoil

WE LOVE PRO WRESTLING!

Big Van Vader

3 time WCW World Heavyweight Champion.

1 - Defeated Sting at the Great American Bash on July 12th 1992, Albany, Georgia. (21 Days)

2 - Defeated Ron Simmons in Baltimore, MD on December 30th 1992  (71 Days)

3 - Defeated Sting in Dublin, Ireland on March 17th 1993  (285 days, his longest reign)

PPV Poster of the Day

The Great American Bash 1991

July 14th 1991

Baltimore Arena

This was the poster for the PPV that wasnt.  Two weeks before the scheduled event, the WCW World Champion Ric Flair was fired by WCW's Jim Herd.  This left a void that was filled by a cage match between then US Champion Lex Luger against Barry Windham for the vacant WCW World Title.

see full results below

• Dark match: The Junkyard Dog defeated Black Bart (12:45)
  • JYD pinned Bart.
• P.N. News and Bobby Eaton defeated Steve Austin and Terrance Taylor (with Lady Blossom) in a Capture-The-Flag Scaffold match (6:19)
  • Eaton grabbed Austin/Taylor's flag to win.
  • This stipulation was added the day of the show, as the match was intended to be a traditional scaffold match.
• The Diamond Studd (with Diamond Dallas Page) defeated Tom Zenk (9:00)
  • Studd pinned Zenk after a bridging belly-to-back suplex.
• Ron Simmons defeated Oz (with Merlin the Wizard) (7:55)
  • Simmons pinned Oz after a shoulderblock.
• Richard Morton (with Alexandra York) defeated Robert Gibson (17:03)
  • Morton pinned Gibson after hitting him with York's laptop computer while referee Bill Alfonso had his back turned.
• The Yellow Dog defeated Johnny B. Badd (with Teddy Long) by disqualification (6:00)
  • Badd was disqualified when Long interfered to try to unmask the Dog; had he done so, Brian Pillman (who was wrestling under the mask) would not be allowed to wrestle in WCW again.
• Big Josh defeated Black Blood (with Kevin Sullivan) in a Lumberjack match (5:39)
  • Josh pinned Black Blood after Dustin Rhodes hit Blood with an axe.
• Dustin Rhodes and The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Badstreet, Jimmy Garvin, Michael Hayes) (with Big Daddy Dink) in an Elimination match (17:10)
  • Hayes pinned Armstrong after he and Badstreet hit a double DDT on Armstrong (13:49)
  • Hayes was disqualified after backdropping Smothers over the top rope (14:04)
  • Garvin pinned Smothers after he and Badstreet hit a double DDT on Smothers (15:16)
  • Rhodes pinned Garvin after a lariat (15:24)
  • Rhodes pinned Badstreet after a bulldog to win the match (17:10)
• El Gigante (with a gaggle of midgets) defeated One Man Gang (with Kevin Sullivan) (6:13)
  • Gigante pinned One Man Gang with a clothesline to the back of the head.
• Nikita Koloff defeated Sting in a Russian Chain match (11:38)
  • Koloff won by touching the final turnbuckle before Sting could.
• WCW United States Champion Lex Luger defeated Barry Windham in a Steel Cage match to win the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship (12:25)
  • Luger pinned Windham after a piledriver on orders from Harley Race.
  • The match was originally supposed to pit Luger against Ric Flair prior to Flair's firing.
  • After the match, Luger turned heel and took on Race and Mr. Hughes as his managers.
• Rick Steiner defeated Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously in a handicap steel cage match (2:08)
  • Steiner pinned Dangerously after a Steiner Line.
  • The match was originally supposed to pit The Steiner Brothers and Missy Hyatt against Anderson, Dangerously, and Barry Windham, but plans changed after Flair's firing and Scott Steiner suffering an injury; Windham was moved to the title match against Luger and the match became a standard tag match.
  • Before the match Dick Murdoch and Dick Slater forcibly took Hyatt backstage, turning the match into a handicap match.

Great American Bash (July 7th 1990)

Great American Bash 

July 7th 1990

Baltimore Arena

Baltimore,  MD

The Main Event 

 NWA World Heavyweight Title

Sting

vs 

Ric Flair

(NWA World Heavyweight Champion)

• Brian Pillman defeated Buddy Landel (9:29)
  • Pillman pinned Landell.
• Mike Rotunda defeated The Iron Sheik (6:46)
  • Rotunda pinned Sheik.
• Doug Furnas defeated Dutch Mantel (11:18)
  • Furnas pinned Mantel.
• Harley Race defeated Tommy Rich (6:32)
  • Race pinned Rich.
• The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) defeated The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) to retain the NWA United States Tag Team Championship(18:14)
  • Eaton pinned Smothers.
• Big Van Vader defeated Tom Zenk (2:16)
  • Vader pinned Zenk.
  • This was Vader's WCW Debut.
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) (13:45)
  • Scott pinned Hayes.
• Paul Orndorff, The Junkyard Dog and El Gigante defeated The Four Horsemen (Sid Vicious, Arn Anderson and Barry Windham) by disqualification (8:53)
• Lex Luger defeated Mark Callous (with Paul E. Dangerously) to retain the NWA United States Championship (12:10)
  • Luger pinned Callous after a clothesline.
• Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed) (with Teddy Long) defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (15:40)
  • Reed pinned Gibson.
• Sting (with The Dudes with Attitudes) defeated Ric Flair (with Ole Anderson) to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (16:06)
  • Sting pinned Flair after countering his Figure-Four Leglock attempt into a small package.
  • During the Match, The Steiner Brothers, Paul Orndorff and The Junkyard Dog (the "Dudes with Attitudes") surrounded the ring to prevent outside interference by the Four Horsemen.
  • Also during the entirety of the match, Ole Anderson was handcuffed to El Gigante.

Your Match of the Night

Great American Bash 

July 23rd 1989

Baltimore Arena

Baltimore   MD

Sting vs. The Great Muta 

Four Horsemen part 3

Part 3 of the tremendous collection of matches and the story of the Four Horseman

Great American Bash 1990

The WCW Great American Bash of 1990 featured some legendary talent and talent that would become legendary in the WWF/WWE.
Most striking in "Mean Mark" who left WCW and found fame and fortune as "The Undertaker" in the WWF.

July 7th 1990 Baltimore Arena in Baltimore MD

• The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) defeated The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) to retain the NWA United States Tag Team Championship(18:14)
  • Eaton pinned Smothers.
• Big Van Vader defeated Tom Zenk (2:16)
  • Vader pinned Zenk.
  • This was Vader's WCW Debut.
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) (13:45)
  • Scott pinned Hayes.
• Paul Orndorff, The Junkyard Dog and El Gigante defeated The Four Horsemen (Sid Vicious, Arn Anderson and Barry Windham) by disqualification (8:53)
• Lex Luger defeated Mark Callous (with Paul E. Dangerously) to retain the NWA United States Championship (12:10)
  • Luger pinned Callous after a clothesline.
• Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed) (with Teddy Long) defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship(15:40)
  • Reed pinned Gibson.
• Sting (with The Dudes with Attitudes) defeated Ric Flair (with Ole Anderson) to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (16:06)
• Sting pinned Flair after countering his Figure-Four Leglock attempt into a small package.
• During the Match, The Steiner Brothers, Paul Orndorff and The Junkyard Dog (the "Dudes with Attitudes") surrounded the ring to prevent outside interference by the Four Horsemen.
• Also during the entirety of the match, Ole Anderson was handcuffed to El Gigante