WrestleWar (1992)

WrestleWar (1992)
VHS cover featuring Sting's Squadron and The Dangerous Alliance
Promotion World Championship Wrestling
Date May 17, 1992[1]
City Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Venue Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum[1]
Attendance 6,000[1]
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WrestleWar 1992: WarGames was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on May 17, 1992 from the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida. This would be the fourth and final year in a row WCW promoted a PPV under the name "WrestleWar".

In 2015, all WCW pay-per-views were made available on the WWE Network.

Storylines

The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[2]

Event

The 1992 WrestleWar show was the second time WCW held a WarGames match on their WrestleWar shows, the match was a Steel cage match that enclosed two rings at once with two teams fighting inside. The War Games match was the conclusion of a long running storyline between a group known as The Dangerous Alliance, led by Manager Paul E. Dangerously and a group of faces led by Sting. The storyline began in the fall of 1991 with the formation of the Alliance as Rick Rude, Steve Austin, Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton and Larry Zbyszko had joined forces in WCW. Sting's team included Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes, Ricky Steamboat and Nikita Koloff, all of whom had individual storyline feuds with members of the Dangerous Alliance. The match ended when Zbyszko accidentally hit Bobby Eaton in the shoulder with the metal connector from a turnbuckle, this left Eaton open to an armbar submission hold from Sting to win the match for Sting's Squadron.[1][1][3][4][5] Following the match the Alliance fell apart. The fifth match of the night was originally announced as Ron Simmons teaming up with the Junkyard Dog to face Mr. Hughes and Cactus Jack in a tag team match, but before the match Jack attacked the Junkyard Dog. The storyline was to cover for Junkyard Dog suffering an injury, allowing WCW to replace the match with a match between Simmons and Hughes.[1][1][3][4][5] The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) did not put the WCW World Tag Team Championship on the line against Tatsumi Fujinami and Takayuki Iizuka, instead it was to determine the next team to challenge for New Japan Pro Wrestling's IWGP Tag Team Championship.[1][1][3][4][5]

Results

No. Results[1][3][4][5] Stipulations Times
1D Diamond Dallas Page and Thomas Rich defeated Bob Cook and Firebreaker Chip Tag team match 08:05
2 The Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) defeated Terry Taylor and Greg Valentine (c) Tag team match for the WCW United States Tag Team Championship 16:02
3 Johnny B. Badd defeated Tracy Smothers Singles match 07:03
4 Scotty Flamingo defeated Marcus Alexander Bagwell Singles match 07:11
5 Ron Simmons defeated Mr. Hughes Singles match 05:22
6 The Super Invader (with Harley Race) defeated Todd Champion Singles match 05:26
7 Big Josh defeated Richard Morton Singles match 07:33
8 Brian Pillman (c) defeated Tom Zenk Singles match for the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship 15:30
9 The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) defeated Tatsumi Fujinami and Takayuki Iizuka Tag team match 18:17
10 Sting's Squadron (Sting, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes, Ricky Steamboat and Nikita Koloff) defeated The Dangerous Alliance (Steve Austin, Rick Rude, Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton and Larry Zbyszko) (with Paul E. Dangerously and Madusa) WarGames match 23:27[6]
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  • D – indicates the match was a dark match

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "WrestlWar 1992". Pro Wrestling History. May 27, 1992. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Cawthon, Graham (2014). the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 4: World Championship Wrestling 1989-1994. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 1499656343.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "2007 Wrestling Almanac & Book of Facts". Wrestling’s Historical Cards. Kappa Publishing. 2007. p. 135.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "WCW Ring Results 1992". The History of WWE. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Stone Cold Truth (p.90)
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