Coffey

I am watching The Great American Bash from 1990. Won't you watch it with me?




The Card:

• U.S. Tag Team Champions: The Midnight Express with Jim Cornette Vs. The Southern Boys
• Z-Man Vs. Big Van Vader (WCW Debut)
• The Fabulous Freebirds Vs. The Steiner Brothers
• The Dudes With Attitudes: The Junkyard Dog, El Gigante & Paul Orndorf Vs. The Four Horsemen: Barry Windham, Sid & Arn Anderson
• U.S. Championship: "The Total Package" Lex Luger Vs. Mean Mark (aka The Undertaker) with Paul E. Dangerously
• World Tag Team Champions: DOOM with Theodore R. Long Vs. The Rock N' Roll Express
• World Heavyweight Champion: "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair Vs. Sting

Commentators Jim Ross & Bob Caudle. July 7th, 1990, from the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, MD

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Zankman Jack

I watched the Flair vs Sting match, as part of an "Best matches of all time" list.
Great stuff, don't know about the rest of the card.

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Coffey

Well, if you miss tag team wrestling, this is a great card to watch. You have The Steiner Brothers, The Southern Boys, The Midnight Express, The Rock N' Roll Express, The Fabulous Freebirds & Doom all wrestling in tag matches.

Plus it's always fun to see old familiar faces like Paul Heyman and The Undertaker.

Zankman Jack

Sure, might watch it later.

Oh, btw, I always jokingly say this when watching that WHC match: "Scott Steiner moving Flair's feet of the rope is basically his career highlight".

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JigsawKrueger

This has Express vs Southern Boys. One of the best tag matches of all time.

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Coffey

Like 1987ish to 1992ish NWA/WCW is one of my favorite eras/promotions in all of wrestling. I just loved the presentation. Sure, there's early 90's AJPW & some 1996-1998 ECW and the WCW/nWo '97 or WWF 98-99. But for me, this was my favorite era of wrestling.

HeliWolf

Seeing early 'Taker is always surreal for me. It's like my brain refuses to accept that it's the same guy.



Gonna watch this tonight, haven't watched a vintage PPV in ages.

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dave 1981

This was the PPV i marked out for most up until WrestleMania 12 as i grew up a NWA/JCP/WCW fan as a kid and Sting was the first wrestler i ever marked for and still to this day he is alongside Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold Steve Austin as my all time favorite. Ric Flair did such a great job of building Sting up and making him a genuine superstar and the match whilst not the best they ever had was great from a storyline perspective and seeing Sting finally win the World title was a HUGE moment for me in wrestling.

The rest of the card was quite good as Steiner/Freebirds, Rock and Roll Express/Doom and Midnight Express/Southern Boys were all very good matches and highlighted just how great tag team wrestling was back then especially in NWA/WCW. Tom Zenk/Vader was a good way of making Vader look like a monster but he wasn't wrestling regularly in NWA/WCW back then for some reason and we had to wait about a year for him to become a permanent fixture. Lex Luger was probably at his best in between 1989 and 1992 as an in ring worker but The Undertaker as we know him as now was still very greem back then but all in all a great PPV for me personally as a kid.

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That Guy

watching this event for the first time, great watch. good post.

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Coffey

There's actually quite a few full shows, in decent video quality, on YouTube nowadays. It wouldn't be hard to do some sort of thread, ala the RAW thread, where we could watch a show together & discuss it as we go or something.

But I've been watching a lot of old NWA & Puro on there lately. It's been great. More than enough material to give me my fix. :-)