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01:18As we are now in the month of July, I decided the next couple of classic pay-per-view reviews
01:22would center on some historic Great American Bash shows over the decades,
01:27and this week's episode is definitely a doozy from a historical context.
01:31Time to look at the NWA Great American Bash 1990, New Revolution,
01:35from July 7th at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.
01:39This show was nominated by Paul Hutchison, Wesley Landon-Woolsey,
01:43and Diddy Miss over at patreon.com slash wrestlingwithregret.
01:46As I often mention with this company, it is a curious time in the timeline of the NWA and WCW.
01:53Oli Anderson's recently been given the booking duties for the company
01:56and is starting to bring back wrestlers who really helped define the previous decade,
02:00though who are now transitioning more and more into people who are trying to help build up the younger generation.
02:06Meanwhile, world champion Ric Flair is growing increasingly frustrated with his position in the company
02:11and dealing with Jim Hurd, but before he can eventually leave, he's got to do business
02:14and pass the torch to Sting, who's now finally healthy enough for it.
02:18A lot of different reported attendance numbers for this show, depending on what source you look at.
02:23Some say it's 8,900, some say it's 10,000, some say it's 14,000.
02:27Who's to say?
02:28But the show did reportedly get about 200,000 pay-per-view buys.
02:32Jim Ross and Bob Cottle are your commentary team here.
02:35Look at this intro. I love it.
02:36To tie in with the Revolutionary War theme, Sting and Flair and the Horsemen are, you know,
02:41drawn or whatever the 1990 equivalent was to photoshopping onto these Revolutionary War paintings.
02:46I love it.
02:47Your opening match sees the nature boy, Buddy Landell versus Flyin' Brian.
02:51The last time we talked about Landell here in this channel,
02:54he had just won the national championship from Terry Taylor,
02:56then fucked himself out of a job due to his out-of-the-ring dalliances with substances.
03:00So he's on a bit of a comeback tour here, but man,
03:02Jim Ross on commentary in the build on TV in the weeks leading up to this
03:06cannot stop burying the hell out of him for what he did in the passing.
03:11Oh, he's a great competitor.
03:12Oh, he's got a lot of issues and stuff.
03:14He's got bad habits and stuff.
03:15We're hoping to work that out.
03:15But man, he's a great wrestler.
03:16Oh, but man, he loves to blow too much.
03:18Like, he just can't stop burying him.
03:19I've seen him at varying stages of his career, the highs and the lows.
03:24But Landell has always had great ability.
03:27His training habits have not been the best.
03:29His out-of-ring exploits are somewhat legendary.
03:32Definitely considered one of the established superstars of our sport if he hadn't tried to self-destruct.
03:38To be quite frank, I'm surprised he's lived as long as he has.
03:42Production botched to open the show as they both get blank name keys.
03:45Both men start off with some big rights.
03:47Pillman with a crossbody has Landell begging off.
03:49A big dropkick has the nature boy going to the outside.
03:52Landell must pose.
03:54Back in the ring, Buddy with a slap and he hides in the ropes.
03:56Thumb to the eye has Landell taking control.
03:59He even catches the second crossbody attempt in midair.
04:02Pillman goes for a big dropkick but got none of it.
04:05Bryan fires back up, gets the corner punches, gets cut off again.
04:08Buddy with cutoff after cutoff.
04:10We get a couple double downs after a vertical suplex and then a collision out of the corner.
04:14Pillman is knocked out of the ring but he's able to recover.
04:17Leaps off the top rope with a crossbody to win.
04:20I'm going to give this one three stars out of five.
04:22I liked the pace to this opening match here on the show.
04:25Landell, despite his issues, which surprisingly they don't really bring up on commentary for the pay-per-view,
04:30I think he was still really good at this point.
04:32I loved the back and forth between the two of them here.
04:35The hope spots that Pillman had and the cutoffs and the way they built to the finish.
04:38I thought it was really well done.
04:39You know, Buddy's return to the NWA was short-lived.
04:42He would be out of the company by the end of the year.
04:45Gordon Soley is reporting from the stage area.
04:47We'll hear from him between each match.
04:49Up next, Captain Mike Rotunda takes on the Iron Sheik,
04:52who I totally forgot ever worked for WCW around this time.
04:56Like, when I saw it in action here, I was reminded,
04:58oh yeah, that's right, he did have a cup of coffee here,
05:00but I forgot that it was for this show in particular.
05:03And it's crazy to think, you know, he's a former WWF champion,
05:06former tag team champion there,
05:07and then within a year from this, or a year, maybe less than that,
05:11he's going to be part of Sergeant Slaughter's entourage
05:13when he was the Iraqi sympathizer back in the WWF.
05:16So it's crazy what the difference a couple of years in either direction makes.
05:20The Sheik jumps Rotunda with the Iranian flag
05:22and chokes him to get the early advantage,
05:24which Jim Ross describes later in the match as a terrorist attack.
05:27Sunset flip by Mike, but Sheik kicks out.
05:30Sheiky baby powders, there's a familiar phrase.
05:32Sheik dodging the elbow and begins to take over.
05:35Lots of begging off when Mike gets a flurry going,
05:37but it's stopped once again.
05:38Sheik going for a suplex.
05:40It's countered into a backslide,
05:42and the pinfall victory for Cap'n Mike.
05:44This gets one and a half stars out of five for me.
05:46Not a great match.
05:47Of course, Sheik is on the downturn of his career at this point.
05:50You know, this is years before Grand Masters of Wrestling
05:52when he was really falling off,
05:54so it's sad to see the decline he was having here around this time.
05:57You know, thank God he had someone who was actually nimble,
06:00like Mike Rotunda, as an opponent for this matchup.
06:03I will say, though, I thought the finish for this,
06:05like the counter from the suplex into the backslide,
06:07I haven't really seen that kind of counter done before.
06:09I thought it was pretty creative.
06:10Gordon Soley is in the interview zone with Harley Race
06:14and asks him about wildfire Tommy Rich.
06:16He says he'll take care of Rich later on,
06:18then gives his predictions for the main event.
06:19He says Sting will win if Flair was not up to the challenge,
06:22and he adds that most of his predictions in wrestling have come true.
06:26Up next, the world's strongest man,
06:28Doug Furness, takes on Dirty Dutch Mantell.
06:31The two trade headlocks.
06:32Mantell bails out of the ring in the early going.
06:34A lot of running the ropes and leapfrogging
06:36ends with Furness military-pressing Dutch up and down.
06:39More locking up.
06:40Dutch with some slaps in the corner.
06:41Doug gets one of his own and it's coming back.
06:43A big, unnecessary backflip out of the corner.
06:46Furness picks things up with a cross body and an arm drag.
06:49Dutch with the eye rake and he begins to take over
06:51with some more sneaky attacks.
06:53Furness comes back,
06:54goes for a top rope splash and gets none of it.
06:56The cover, but Doug emphatically kicks out.
06:59Mantell takes over on the outside,
07:01goes for another cover back in the ring,
07:02gets launched again,
07:04this time into the ref.
07:05Using tights for leverage and an arm bar gets caught.
07:08Doug comes back,
07:09hits a power slam off the ropes.
07:11Then things get a little awkward.
07:12Let's hit it again.
07:13One more time off the ropes.
07:14Mantell's easily confused,
07:16walks into a belly-to-belly suplex,
07:18and Furness wins.
07:19I give this match two and a half stars out of five.
07:21It felt like ultimately just an inconsequential mid-card match.
07:24Not a lot of build to this on TV in particular,
07:26and so I didn't really feel like there was much of a reason for this thing.
07:29It was almost a little too much shtick for my liking by Mantell.
07:33The whole repeatedly powdering out of the ring and stuff,
07:35I think that's definitely,
07:36it was a product of the style of the time.
07:38It works in small doses,
07:39but it almost took me out of it here, I'd say.
07:42Still, it was some good back-and-forth action,
07:44and I love Mantell's work in this thing
07:45as just the dastardly heel and everything.
07:47As far as Furness goes,
07:49he wouldn't be long for the NWA working like this,
07:51but he would, of course,
07:52find his greatest success just not too long after this in Japan,
07:56especially All Japan Pro Wrestling.
07:58Just two years after this,
07:59he would take part in a match of the year,
08:01as voted by the readers of the Wrestling Observer.
08:03Gordon Soley interviews James E. Cornett.
08:05He cuts a great promo on the Southern Boys,
08:07and he wants them to ask themselves
08:09if they're mean and tough enough to beat the Midnight Express.
08:12He says they may be champions one day,
08:14but not this day.
08:15Up next,
08:16Wildfire Tommy Rich and Harley Race,
08:18two former world champs squaring off here.
08:20Race making his return to WCW
08:22after a brief stit in Puerto Rico.
08:24I love the fast pace to start this match.
08:26I love Harley's headlock takeover bump.
08:28I've never seen one quite like that before.
08:30Race spiking Tommy with a piledriver.
08:32Interesting bounce up and sell.
08:34The fight makes its way to the ramp.
08:35We get a big suplex by Race.
08:37On the outside,
08:38Rich fights back in a big body slam on the floor.
08:40He's making his comeback in the ring.
08:42Both men go over the top rope,
08:44back to the outside.
08:45Rich, the top rope,
08:46cross body,
08:47but Harley rolls through with the cover and wins.
08:49I give it two stars out of five.
08:51I wish this match had gone a little bit longer
08:53because I really like the physicality in this thing.
08:55And even though both men,
08:56especially Harley,
08:57were getting up there in age,
08:59I still think they had a lot of good chemistry here.
09:01These two have, of course,
09:02worked before over the world championship,
09:04for instance.
09:05You know,
09:05it's kind of surprising that Rich would lose to Race here
09:08considering, like, you know,
09:09he is the older guy
09:10and the modus operandi in WCW at this time
09:13definitely seems to be toward more like
09:15pushing the younger talent.
09:17And like I said,
09:18Rich is no spring chicken at this point,
09:19but he's still, I think,
09:20more viable of a talent
09:21than Harley Race was at this point.
09:23Rich, during this run in the NWA,
09:25was repeatedly booked as kind of like
09:27always the bridesmaid,
09:28never the bride.
09:29Good for mid-card storylines,
09:31good for TV wins,
09:32but ultimately kind of like choking
09:33or not getting the big wins
09:35when it counted here.
09:36He was never able to regain the heights
09:38of him being world champion
09:39and this just, like,
09:40didn't even come close.
09:41And what's ironic is
09:42Race would actually retire fully
09:44by the end of this year
09:45after suffering a shoulder injury.
09:46Gordon Sully's on stage
09:48with Pauly Dangerously
09:49and Mean Mark Dangerously
09:51says that Mean Mark
09:52is the heir apparent
09:53to the world title
09:54after Sting is knocked
09:55out of contention tonight.
09:56Dangerously pulls out
09:57a Lex Luger t-shirt,
09:59or maybe it's toilet paper,
10:00he says.
10:00He says that if Luger
10:02dares to flex at Mark
10:03like he does in this t-shirt,
10:04then Mark will rip Lex's head off
10:06and spit down his throat.
10:07Up next,
10:08a match for the NWA
10:09US Tag Team Championships
10:11as the Midnight Express
10:12defend against
10:13the Wild-Eyed Southern Boys
10:14of Steve Armstrong
10:15and Tracy Smothers.
10:16Those two making
10:17their pay-per-view debut here.
10:19The action gets started
10:19right away,
10:20throwing Bobby Eaton
10:21hither and yon
10:22before things start
10:22to slow down.
10:23Bobby is a bump machine
10:24for Armstrong and Smothers
10:26in the early going.
10:27Stan Lane comes in.
10:28He and Tracy
10:29have a martial arts face-off.
10:30Lane's starting off strong,
10:31but Tracy firing back.
10:33A misdirection
10:33sends the Midnight Express
10:34flying all over the place
10:36and Jim Cornette
10:36freaking out on the outside.
10:38JC distracts the ref
10:40while Smothers
10:40is thrown over the top rope
10:41and Midnight takes over.
10:43Bobby with the Alabama
10:44jam to Smothers.
10:45After a few more minutes
10:46of heat,
10:46Tracy with a double
10:47sunset flip
10:48making the hot tag
10:49to Armstrong.
10:50A double team move
10:51to Lane,
10:51but Smothers isn't
10:52leaving the ring in time.
10:53Steve goes up top,
10:55but Eaton shoves him off.
10:56The rocket launcher,
10:57but somehow a kick out
10:58at two.
10:59Smothers and Armstrong
11:00use twin magic
11:01that almost gets them
11:02the win.
11:03The referee is distracted,
11:04Lane with a kick
11:05to the back of Smothers' head.
11:06The small package,
11:07Midnight Express
11:08win and retain.
11:09This is my pick
11:10for the match of the night.
11:11Yes, even more so
11:12than the main event here.
11:14This show is really full
11:16of good tag team wrestling.
11:17I think most of the positives
11:19in this show
11:19are in those matches,
11:21I would say.
11:21They told a great story here.
11:23I love the pace
11:24and the athleticism
11:25they showed here.
11:26Such a stark contrast
11:28to some of the matches
11:29we saw earlier in this show,
11:30like with the Iron Sheik
11:31or Harley Race.
11:32These guys are on
11:33a whole different level
11:34and watching them wrestle here
11:36was a great breath
11:37of fresh air
11:37compared to what we've seen
11:38so far on this show.
11:39Gordon Sully
11:40with the fabulous Freebirds
11:41who are all glammed up
11:42for the occasion.
11:43Jimmy Jam says
11:44the Steiners and Baltimore
11:45will never be the same
11:46after tonight.
11:47Michael Hayes says
11:48they've come to rock the house
11:49and there's two things
11:50the Steiners can do about it,
11:51nothing and like it.
11:53Up next,
11:53the Z-Man,
11:54not me,
11:55taking on the debuting
11:56Big Van Vader.
11:58Bob Cottle
11:58describing Vader's headgear
12:00as a samurai warrior
12:01headpiece of some kind
12:02that emits steam.
12:03Vader on the attack early,
12:05showing the strength
12:06by pulling Z-Man
12:07over the ropes.
12:07Zenk with one of his
12:08only offensive maneuvers
12:09of the match
12:10and it gets him nothing,
12:11only hastens the destruction.
12:12Big military press,
12:14a line,
12:14and a big splash
12:15and that's all she wrote.
12:16I give it one star
12:17out of five.
12:18It is a quick squash match
12:19but it is emphatic
12:20for a squash match
12:21for sure
12:22and a great way
12:23to debut Vader.
12:25I think that when
12:25he comes out here
12:26the fans don't know
12:27what to make of him
12:28and then when the steam
12:29comes out of the headgear
12:31for his entrance
12:31the fans light up for it
12:33and I think they really
12:34gravitate to him right away.
12:35He's so dominant
12:36in this thing.
12:37It's hard not to appreciate it.
12:39We get the horsemen
12:40on stage with Gordon Soley,
12:41Barry Windham,
12:42Sid Vicious,
12:43and Arne Anderson
12:43with Oli in their corner.
12:45They're going to take out
12:45Elie Gante
12:46and the dudes with Attitudes
12:47and they also promise
12:49that Ric Flair
12:49will retain the world championship
12:50in the main event.
12:52Up next,
12:52the fabulous Freebirds
12:53take on Ric and Scott
12:55the Steiner brothers
12:56who've only been teaming
12:57for less than a year
12:58at this point
12:58but are already one
12:59of the hottest acts
12:59in the company.
13:00Hayes goes for the DDT
13:02early on
13:02but Scott blocks it.
13:03Ric throws some Steiner lines
13:05then Scott hits them
13:06both on the outside
13:06and okay look,
13:08I understand the Freebirds
13:09are dressed very flamboyantly.
13:11They have the sequined overalls,
13:12they are just caked in makeup
13:13and covered in glitter.
13:14I understand what
13:15they're going for here
13:16and it definitely works
13:17because you've got
13:18a whole bunch of people
13:19in this audience
13:19chanting a huge
13:20homophobic slur at them
13:22to the point
13:22where you get a big ol' shot
13:23of a whole front row of dudes
13:25chanting it at them
13:26and it's all in full view
13:27and not to mention
13:27the audible chants
13:28we hear throughout this match
13:29are definitely something.
13:30Needless to say,
13:31I am not watching
13:32the Peacock version
13:33of this show.
13:33Someone tell me
13:34if that stuff's cut out
13:35from that version
13:36because I would imagine it is.
13:38So the Freebirds
13:38are called a homophobic slur
13:40but Rick Steiner
13:40gets a babyface pop
13:41for biting P.S. Hayes' ass
13:43and make it make sense.
13:44The Freebirds powder,
13:45we get a lot of stalling.
13:46Scotty with a big suplex
13:48to Hayes
13:48and a tilt-a-whirl slam
13:49to Garvin.
13:50Some more schtick,
13:51we get a Michael is a bitch chant.
13:52Rick Steiner gets
13:53double-teamed by the Birds.
13:55Garvin with a couple
13:55of clotheslines
13:56on the outside.
13:57Rick gets worked over
13:58a while,
13:58goes to body slam Garvin
14:00but then something happens
14:01that causes Garvin
14:02to reverse it.
14:02I'm not quite sure
14:03what happened here.
14:04Jimmy Jarm Gavin
14:05goes for a flying nothing
14:06but Rick stops it,
14:07hits a flying something
14:08and we get a double down.
14:10Frankensteiner to Hayes,
14:11Garvin with a DDT
14:12but he's not the legal man
14:13and as the ref chastises him,
14:15Rick suplexes Michael.
14:16Scott covers and wins.
14:18I give this one
14:19three and a half stars
14:19out of five
14:20like the Doug Furness
14:21Dutch Mantell match.
14:22I thought there was
14:23almost a little too much schtick,
14:25a little too much stalling
14:26and wasting time
14:27for my liking
14:28and also it can be hard
14:29to focus on this match
14:30because some of the chance
14:31we get here
14:31can be very alarming
14:33but once you get past
14:34those things,
14:34it's actually still
14:35a pretty good match.
14:36The Steiners,
14:37like I said,
14:38they've been a team
14:38for less than a year
14:39at this point
14:39but they're already
14:40stupid over.
14:41They're already
14:42former tag team champions
14:43so it's definitely
14:44a hot act
14:44and you got the Freebirds
14:46who are just natural
14:47heat magnets
14:47with or without their face,
14:49their makeup
14:49and their sequins
14:50and everything
14:51and yeah,
14:52still told for a good story.
14:53We get a little promo
14:54for the upcoming
14:54Halloween Havoc 1990
14:56which hoo boy,
14:57that's going to get
14:58covered here eventually.
14:59Then we go to
14:59a six-man tag match
15:00as the Horsemen,
15:01Barry Windham,
15:02Arn Anderson
15:03and Sid Vicious
15:04take on the dudes
15:05with Attitudes.
15:06It's Paul Orndorff,
15:07the Junkyard Dog
15:08and Elie Gante
15:09making his national
15:10wrestling debut.
15:12Well,
15:12it's no less random
15:13of a bunch of teammates
15:14than say Darby Allen
15:15and Shingo Takagi.
15:16Windham and Sid
15:17are the newest members
15:18of the Horsemen.
15:19They were brought
15:19into the group
15:20shortly after Sting
15:21was excommunicated
15:22earlier in the year.
15:23Sid with a strength
15:24on display
15:25on Orndorff
15:25right out the gate
15:26but Mr. Wonderful
15:27gets a big run,
15:28the backslide
15:29assisted by JYD
15:30and we get a two count.
15:31We get the big face off
15:32and the Horsemen run off
15:33when Elie Gante
15:34gets in the ring.
15:35Arn gets in the fray now,
15:36gets bopped around
15:37by the baby faces.
15:38Great selling by Arn here.
15:39Look at that face
15:40after he runs
15:41from Elie Gante.
15:42We get it again
15:42with Windham
15:43but not quite as good
15:44as Arn.
15:44Windham drops JYD
15:46with a DDT
15:47but it's got no effect.
15:48Orndorff tags back in
15:50and is beating up
15:50everyone in sight.
15:51Windham cuts off
15:52the piledriver.
15:53A we want Sid
15:54chant from the crowd
15:55and the big man
15:56makes it back in
15:56for a moment.
15:57Orndorff takes the heat
15:58for a bit
15:59but tags in the dog.
16:00We can't see why
16:00he just faves
16:01Elie Gante
16:02in the corner there.
16:02The Horsemen
16:03tripled team
16:04JYD
16:04and throw him
16:05over the top.
16:06That's a DQ.
16:07Elie Gante
16:07chases the Horsemen
16:08away which then
16:09gets booed.
16:10Rightfully so.
16:11I'm going to give
16:11this one two stars
16:12out of five.
16:13I think it was great
16:14work for five
16:15of the six men
16:15involved in this thing.
16:16I thought the heels
16:17sold spectacularly
16:18for everyone
16:19especially Elie Gante.
16:21Disappointing DQ
16:22finish here.
16:22You know it's
16:23interesting that we
16:24say that because
16:24it's disappointing
16:25on one level
16:26because you know
16:27the fans are promised
16:28hey Elie Gante
16:28is going to wrestle
16:29and you don't get that.
16:30It's very just
16:31unofficial when he's
16:32in the ring.
16:32You don't really
16:33see him do anything.
16:34So it's disappointing
16:34they kind of like
16:35pulled back on
16:36something they promised
16:36the fans but then
16:38again they were
16:38probably doing us
16:39a favor because
16:39I don't think
16:40anyone really wants
16:41to see what happens
16:42when Elie Gante
16:42eventually wrestles.
16:44We all know
16:44what's going to
16:45happen in hindsight.
16:46It's just they
16:46know the truth.
16:48They're delaying
16:49the inevitable.
16:50They don't want
16:50to have the big
16:51man actually wrestle
16:52yet but the
16:53anticipation for it
16:54is getting fans
16:55riled up.
16:55Gordon Soley's
16:56on stage with
16:57the US champ
16:57Lex Luger.
16:58In response to
16:59what Pauly
16:59Dangerously said
17:00earlier he says
17:01it's a lot easier
17:02to tear a t-shirt
17:03than to tear him
17:03apart.
17:04He also adds
17:05that he's friends
17:05with Sting and
17:06that he's never
17:06seen him more
17:07fired up and
17:07ready than he
17:08is tonight and
17:09is sure that his
17:09friend will win
17:10the world
17:10championship.
17:11In a battle of
17:12the alliterative
17:13names for the
17:13US championship
17:14Lex Luger
17:15defends against
17:16Mean Mark.
17:17Look at Mean
17:17Mark Callis here.
17:18He's a blank
17:19canvas of 1990.
17:20Of course
17:20accompanied by
17:21Paul E.
17:22Dangerously and
17:22watching this stuff
17:23here every time
17:24I see this pairing
17:25from this era I
17:26just can't help
17:26but think of the
17:27history that these
17:28two have had.
17:29Paul Heyman,
17:30The Undertaker and
17:31how their stories
17:32would be intertwined
17:33so much not just
17:34in the early 90s
17:35but in the years
17:35following that in
17:36the mid 2000s for
17:38instance and seeing
17:38that history there
17:39kind of play out in
17:40a very different way
17:41here.
17:41It's very fascinating.
17:42We get holds and
17:43counter holds by both
17:44guys here to start
17:44off.
17:45Both guys running
17:46the ropes.
17:46Lex with a cross
17:47body followed up
17:48by an arm drag.
17:49Look at the height.
17:50The elevation by
17:51Mean Mark on that
17:51leapfrog before the
17:52boot.
17:53Ooh what do you call
17:54the old school
17:54before its current
17:55school?
17:56Do you call it
17:56preschool?
17:57Luger begins to
17:58fight back but
17:59Mark dodges the
17:59attack and Luger
18:00hurls himself over
18:01the top rope.
18:02Back inside Luger
18:03with some hope spots
18:04but Mark snuffs
18:05them out.
18:05Vertical suplex
18:06leads to Lex
18:07Lexing up
18:07throwing some
18:08big clotheslines.
18:09The torture rack
18:10supplied very
18:11impressive.
18:11The referee is
18:12kicking the head
18:13and that gives
18:13Paul E the
18:14chance to deck
18:14Luger with the
18:15cell phone but
18:16Luger kicks out.
18:17Mark goes with
18:18a heart punch but
18:18Luger avoids it.
18:20He decks
18:20dangerously hits the
18:21clothesline to win
18:22the match.
18:23I'm gonna give this
18:23one two and a half
18:24stars out of five.
18:25The match got a
18:25little one-dimensional
18:26to me.
18:27A little bit punchy.
18:28You don't want to
18:28step up to punchy in
18:29my opinion and this
18:30match definitely did
18:31that.
18:31But I think Lex Luger
18:33did a good job looking
18:34like a baby face in
18:36peril.
18:36I think Mean Mark was
18:38a good foil.
18:39It's rare to find
18:40somebody bigger than
18:42Lex Luger and for
18:43Luger to be that
18:44baby face.
18:44It just feels kind of
18:46an odd place for him
18:46to be.
18:47But I think that he
18:48pulls that off really
18:49well here.
18:49I think Mean Mark is a
18:51great foil for him in
18:52this matchup.
18:53In a pre-recorded
18:54interview, Gordon
18:54Soley's backstage with
18:56Sting.
18:56How does he feel going
18:57into the world title
18:58match with Flair?
18:59Sting says he's
18:59feeling good.
19:00The knee is strong.
19:01He wants no
19:02interference, no
19:03excuses.
19:03Sting is ready to
19:04walk that aisle.
19:05In our next match for
19:06the world tag team
19:07titles, Doom accompanied
19:09by Theodore R. Long
19:10defending against the
19:11Rock and Roll Express.
19:12Ron Simmons and
19:13Butch Reed, they won
19:14the tag belt back in
19:15May at Capital
19:16Combat, the return of
19:17Robocop.
19:18If you want to hear
19:18more about Capital
19:19Combat, you can click
19:20this link right here
19:21and get my review.
19:22Robert Gibson able
19:23to use his quickness
19:24against the size and
19:25strength of Simmons and
19:26Reed.
19:26Some double teaming by
19:27R&R here, but Reed
19:28blocks the hip toss,
19:29hits a big old
19:30clothesline to take
19:30over.
19:31Gibson taking a lot of
19:32offense, gets thrown
19:33over the top as the
19:34ref is not looking.
19:35Gibson gets the
19:36breather and tags in
19:37Morton.
19:37Simmons decks Ricky
19:38with a clothesline.
19:39Now it's Ricky's turn
19:40to do the Ricky Morton
19:41thing and sell a lot.
19:42Butch Reed with a
19:43second rope elbow drop
19:44to Morton who kicks
19:45out.
19:45Ricky's still fighting,
19:46going for pins,
19:47doing what he can to
19:48survive here.
19:49Morton's dumped out
19:50of the ring again.
19:51Doom continue to work
19:51him over.
19:52Reed just muscles up
19:53Ricky for a power slam.
19:54Morton gets the knees
19:55up on a splash,
19:56finally makes a tag to
19:57Gibson.
19:58He's a house of fire,
19:59all four men in the
19:59ring now.
20:00Teddy Long is on the
20:01apron and ends a
20:02gurry to Reed who
20:03takes one of the most
20:04convoluted staggers into
20:05Long.
20:06Gibson decks Long,
20:07but he walks right
20:07into a top rope tackle
20:09by Butch.
20:09Doom win and retain.
20:11For whatever reason,
20:12it feels the crowd was
20:13really quiet for both
20:15the hot tags,
20:15especially the Ricky to
20:16Robert one,
20:17which really confused
20:18me.
20:18I'm not sure if it had
20:19something to do with
20:20the market.
20:20Maybe Rock and Roll
20:21Express did better in
20:22the South than in
20:23Baltimore.
20:24I'm not entirely sure
20:25on that,
20:25but I think the lack of
20:27pop for those hot tags
20:28especially surprised me.
20:29And also,
20:30R&R didn't get to do a
20:32lot of, in my opinion,
20:33what made them so
20:34popular and successful
20:35in the first place.
20:36We had a little bit of
20:36double team stuff with
20:37them, but we didn't get
20:38all that flash that we
20:40usually get with Rock and
20:41Roll Express.
20:41Another pre-taped
20:42interview with Gordon
20:43Soley and Ric Flair,
20:44the six-time world
20:45champ.
20:46Flair says he's wearing
20:47a $2,000 custom suit to
20:49celebrate the presumptive
20:50victory.
20:50He puts over Sting and
20:51the hard work he's gone
20:52through to get to where
20:53he is, but to be the
20:54man, he has to beat the
20:55man.
20:56And we go to that main
20:56event now for the NWA
20:58World's Heavyweight
20:59Championship, the Nature
21:00Boy.
21:00Ric Flair defends against
21:02Sting.
21:03Way back in February,
21:04Sting was kicked out of
21:05the four horsemen for
21:06wanting to challenge
21:06Flair for the
21:07championship.
21:08It was meant to
21:09kickstart the title run
21:10and eventual passing
21:11of the torch because
21:12that was the story.
21:13It was that Ric Flair
21:14promised that he would
21:15pass the torch to Sting.
21:16He would be the man.
21:17But the same night Sting
21:18was kicked out of the
21:19horsemen, later in the
21:20night he tore his
21:21patella tendon in a
21:22post-match angle and was
21:23on the shelf for months.
21:24That is partly what led
21:25to what we saw at
21:26Capital Combat with
21:27Sting's buddy Robocop.
21:28Sting has made it his
21:30mission to start shit
21:31with the horsemen every
21:31chance he gets until
21:32he's finally healed up and
21:34gets his title match.
21:35He's got his own team
21:36now, the dudes with
21:37attitudes.
21:37As previously mentioned,
21:39you've got the Steiners,
21:40you've got Paul Orndorff,
21:40the Junkyard Dog.
21:41This is the team that
21:42Sting has assembled to
21:43kind of counteract the
21:44horsemen's bad stuff.
21:46The dudes are stationed
21:47at ringside to combat
21:48the horsemen should they
21:49try to interfere.
21:49And not only that, the
21:51cherry on top, Ole
21:52Anderson has to be
21:53handcuffed to Elie
21:53Gante on the ramp during
21:55the match.
21:55And okay, people talk
21:56shit about Ole as a
21:57booker or as just a
21:59human being or whatever,
22:00but man, I cannot help
22:01but smile and enjoy Ole's
22:03work during this run as
22:05the manager, the
22:06mouthpiece of the
22:06horsemen.
22:07His acting around
22:08Elie Gante especially
22:09is what's doing it for
22:11me.
22:11I love the performance
22:12here.
22:12I love Sting's look here,
22:13that iconic red, white,
22:14and blue look to go with
22:15the Great American Bash
22:16theme.
22:17Flair hitting the chops,
22:18no effect on the Stinger
22:19early on who hits the
22:20big press slam, slams him
22:21on the ramp and clothes
22:22lines him back into the
22:23ring.
22:24Flair virtually cripples
22:25Sting with a single
22:26dreaded eye poke, hits a
22:27suplex, but Sting shakes
22:28it off again, hits the
22:29cross body.
22:30Flair begins to go after
22:31Sting's leg, we get
22:33another standoff here.
22:34Flair with a sneak
22:35attack during the test
22:35of strength.
22:36He attacks the leg, but
22:37Sting counters, puts his
22:38own figure four in the
22:39champ.
22:40Sting is thrown into the
22:41railing, but he stings up
22:42again briefly.
22:43More back and forth, Sting
22:44sends Flair flying over
22:46the turnbuckle, hits the
22:47Stinger's splash, goes for
22:48the scorpion death lock.
22:49Out come the horsemen, but
22:50those dudes with attitudes
22:52head him off at the
22:52pass.
22:53We get a rope break by
22:54Flair.
22:55Rick going for a cheap
22:55pin, but Scott Steiner
22:57puts a stop to that.
22:57He probably said, ah, fuck
22:58you, when he did it.
23:00Sting goes for a flying
23:01knee, but it must have
23:01been so big an impact the
23:02camera had to cut away.
23:04Flair is all like, it's
23:05time.
23:06He goes to the figure
23:06four, but Sting hits the
23:07inside cradle, pins and
23:09wins, beats Flair.
23:11The 426-day rain has been
23:13snapped, and the torch has
23:14been passed as the rest of
23:15the dudes celebrate with
23:16the Stinger.
23:17And then Sting's face
23:18suddenly burns an effigy
23:19on the stage.
23:20Sting remains humble in his
23:22post-match promo and
23:23promises as champion he'll
23:24do the best he can do, and
23:26that's how we end the
23:27Great American Bash.
23:28I give this match three
23:29and a half stars out of
23:30five.
23:30I think it told a great
23:31story, had a very
23:32cathartic conclusion to see
23:34Sting finally get that
23:35moment that was, you
23:36know, been promised and
23:37been expected for so long.
23:39You had that build going in
23:41the first part of the
23:41year.
23:42You had to put it on ice
23:43for a while because of the
23:43injury, making this moment
23:45here that much sweeter.
23:46There are times in the
23:47match where I question the
23:48psychology of things, like
23:49Sting doing the Sting up
23:51like once or twice in a
23:53match at pivotal points is
23:54okay, but it felt like he
23:55was just throwing them in
23:55there just at random at
23:56points where it's like,
23:57okay, it's kind of losing
23:58its oomph every time it
23:59does it.
24:00Still, I thought it was a
24:01well-executed matchup.
24:02A little bit of gaga on
24:04the outside with the
24:05horsemen and the dudes,
24:06but not so much that it
24:07takes away from what we
24:08saw in the match itself.
24:09So yeah, solid made
24:10event and of course, very
24:11historical for a lot of
24:13reasons.
24:13My grade for the 1990
24:15Great American Bash is a
24:16C+.
24:17I think it was overall a
24:18good representation of
24:19what WCW had at the
24:21time, which was overall
24:23positive.
24:23You had a lot of amazing
24:24talent at that time in the
24:25company.
24:26Not always used in the
24:27best way, but I think you
24:28did have that talent
24:29there.
24:30It's interesting to me
24:31that most of the matches
24:31that I think are worth
24:32their weight and salt,
24:33that are worth watching
24:34back on this show, are
24:36the tags, especially
24:37Midnight Express versus
24:38Southern Boys, except for
24:40the six-man tag.
24:40It's the one tag match I
24:41would say to stay away
24:42from on this show.
24:44Obviously, this is a very
24:45historical pay-per-view.
24:46It's the debut of Vader.
24:47It's the coronation of
24:48Sting.
24:49The rise of some future
24:50stars, you know, you will
24:52see here.
24:52Definitely, there is some
24:53stuff worth checking out
24:54here, but there's a lot of
24:56the mid-card, in
24:56particular the singles
24:57matches in the mid-card,
24:58that, to me, leave a lot
24:59to be desired.
25:00So in two weeks' time, we
25:01are looking back at another
25:02classic Great American
25:03Bash, but we are jumping
25:04way, way far ahead into the
25:06timeline when WWE was
25:07running this show, and this
25:09show is going to be
25:09remembered for something
25:10very different than, say, a
25:11passing of the torch or a
25:13coronation.
25:13I got three words for you.
25:15Elevated liver enzymes.
25:17We're looking at the Great
25:18American Bash 2006.
25:20But until then, I'm Brian
25:21Zane, and I'll see you next
25:23time.
25:23We'll see you next time.
25:23We'll see you next time.
25:23We'll see you next time.
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