Today in Wrestling History (05/27/2013)

1988 - Owen Hart defeats Hiroshi Hase in Sendai, Japan to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title. 

1996 - One of the most famous moments in modern wrestling history takes place, as Scott Hall (Razor Ramon), fresh from his stint in WWF, shows up during the first-ever two hour edition of WCW Monday Nitro, entering from the crowd and informing Eric Bischoff that he was there to "declare war" on WCW. This was the beginning of what would become the New World Order. 

Great American Bash 1996

Today in 1996 WCW held its annual Great American Bash PPV and held at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore Maryland.

- The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated Fire and Ice (Scott Norton and Ice Train), when Scott pinned Norton after a Frankensteiner.


The Outsiders (Hall and Nash) make their "official" WCW debut 



- Konnan pinned El Gato (Pat Tanaka), after a Flapjack Spinebuster into a Jackknife Pin, to retain the WCW United States Heavyweight Title.

- Diamond Dallas Page pinned Marcus Bagwell after a Diamond Cutter.

- Dean Malenko pinned Rey Misterio, Jr., after a Powerbomb and using the ropes, to retain the WCW Cruiserweight Title.
- John Tenta pinned Big Bubba Rogers after a Powerslam. After the match, Tenta shaved Rogers' goatee off.

- Chris Benoit defeated Kevin Sullivan in a Falls Count Anywhere match. After the match, Arn Anderson came to the ring and helped Benoit attack Sullivan.

- Sting defeated Lord Steven Regal by submission with a Scorpion Deathlock.

- Ric Flair and Arn Anderson defeated Kevin Greene and Steve McMichael, when Flair pinned Greene after McMichael turned on Greene and hit him with a steel briefcase. After the match, Chris Benoit came out and helped attack Greene. McMichael became the fourth in the new Four Horsemen along with Flair, Anderson and Benoit.


 The Giant pinned Lex Luger after a Chokeslam to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Title.

ESPN E60 - Scott Hall

The ESPN show E60 did a documentary on the sad decline of Razor Ramon AKA Scott Hall.  

From his days as "Big" Scott Hall to Razor Ramon to the NWO they look at Scott Halls spiral into drug addiction, alcoholism to now where he is on 11 medications for a number of ailments.
This was a well done show and Scott gave them access to himself and the WWE really stepped up with interviews and video.


You see the entire episode here:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:7124904