Great American Bash Matchlists
Great American Bash 1987
(note-- remember that this is not one show like we know them now, but rather a collection of stuff from the summer in the Bash '87 tour, that's why you see guys like Flair in more than one match on this tape)Four Horsemen/J.J. Dillon vs. Dusty Rhodes/Nikita Koloff/Road Warriors/Paul Ellering Wargames #1 ***** (awesome match with absolutely INCREDIBLE heat......should be required viewing)
Barry Windham vs. Rick Steiner Western States Heritage Title (this one is clipped a little)
Lex Luger vs. Nikita Koloff Cage Match U.S. Title
Dick Murdoch vs. Steve Williams Texas Death Match
The Freebirds vs. Manny Fernandez/Paul Jones/Ivan Koloff
Dusty Rhodes vs. Tully Blanchard Barbed Wire Rope Match
Ric Flair vs. Jimmy Garvin NWA World Title Cage Match
Midnight Express vs. Rock N' Roll Express
Four Horsemen/War Machine vs. Dusty Rhodes/Nikita Koloff/Road WarriorsPaul Ellering Wargames #2 ****1/4 (not as good as the first one, but still very good)
Great American Bash 1987 Orange Bowl House Show (1 hr.)
Manny Fernandez vs. Bill Mulkey/Randy Mulkey JIP
Ronnie Garvin/Jimmy Garvin vs. The Sheepherders Clipped
Barry Windham vs. Incubus Clipped
Bugsy McGraw/Steve Keirn vs. Cuban Assassins (shot from a different angle and has no sound)
Midnight Express vs. Rock N' Roll Express Clipped
Mike Rotundo vs. Ivan Koloff Clipped
Dory Funk Jr. vs. Kevin Sullivan Clipped
Four Horsemn/War Machine vs. Dusty Rhodes/Nikita Koloff/Road Warriors/Paul Ellering War Games ****1/4 (this is the only complete match on this tape)
Great American Bash 1988
Arn Anderson/Tully Blanchard vs. Sting/Nikita Koloff NWA World Tag Team Title Match
Midnight Express vs. The Fantastics NWA U.S. Tag Team Title Match
Road Warriors/Steve Williams/Jimmy Garvin/Ronnie Garvin vs. Kevin Sullivan/Mike Rotunda/Al Perez/The Russian Assassin/Ivan Koloff Tower of Doom Match (this isn't a great match, but it does have lots of heat.....after the face team escapes, making Sullivan's team the losers, he locks himself inside with Precious and kicks her around for a bit.....the faces then have to climb all the way to the top and back down again through the Tower to make the same.....when Hawk finally gets there and clotheslines Sullivan, the place just EXPLODES in cheers....awesome moment)
Mike Rotunda vs. Sting NWA TV Title Match
Barry Windham vs. Dusty Rhodes NWA U.S. Title Match
Ric Flair vs. Lex Luger NWA World Title
Great American Bash 1989
"King of the Hill" Double Ring Battle Royal
Brian Pillman vs. Wild Bill Irwin
Skyscrapers vs. Dynamic Dudes
Paul E. Dangerously vs. Jim Cornette Tuxedo Street Fight (This is a comedy match all the way)
Mike Rotunda/Kevin Sullivan vs. Steiners Texas Tornado Match ***1/2 (very good brawl with LOTS of heat)
Great Muta vs. Sting **** (this is Muta when he was in all his glory....very very hot matchup)
Ricky Steamboat vs. Lex Luger **** (this is back when Luger could wrestle and could keep up with better wrestlers and not drag them down.....very good match, but a shitty, shitty ending though in this one)
Fabulous Freebirds/Terry Gordy/Samoan Swat Team vs. Midnight Express/Steve Williams/Road Warriors WarGames **** (before 1993, Wargames was pretty much automatic ****+ territory and this one is no different)
Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk *****
Great American Bash 1990
Midnight Express vs. Southern Boys U.S. Tag Team Title Match ****3/4 (this match isn't considered one of the top tag team matches of the 90s for nothing)
Big Van Vader vs. Tom Zenk
Steiners vs. Fabulous Freebirds ***
Four Horsemen (AA/Sid/Windham) vs. Paul Orndorff/Junkyard Dog/El Gigante
Lex Luger vs. Mean Mark Callous (aka Undertaker) (here's WCW at it's finest....if I'm not mistaken, they fired Mr. Callous right after this show because they thought he was unmarketable....a mere 4 months later he'd show up as the Undertaker lol)
Rock n Roll Express vs. Doom NWA World Tag Team Title Match ****1/4
Ric Flair vs. Sting NWA World Title Match ***
Great American Bash 1992
(note-- this show had an NWA tag title tournament, so this was a special interest show, hence teams wrestling more than once)Brian Pillman/Jushin Liger vs. Nikita Koloff/Ricky Steamboat ***
Freebirds vs. Shinya Hashimoto/Hiroshi Hase
Steve Austin/Rick Rude vs. Dustin Rhodes/Barry Windham ***
Ricky Steamboat/Nikita Koloff vs. Miracle Violence Connection (Gordy/Williams)
Dustin Rhodes/Barry Windham vs. Shinya Hashimoto/Hiroshi Hase
Sting vs. Vader WCW World Title Match ****1/2 (Vader absolutely DESTROYS Sting, setting up their lengthy fued, that would go on and off for 3 three until Vader finally left for the WWF)
Dustin Rhodes/Barry Windham vs. Miracle Violence Connection
Great American Bash 1995
Brian Pillman vs. Alex Wright
Jim Duggan vs. Craig Pittman
Harlem Heat vs. Bunkhouse Buck/Dick Slater
Renegade vs. Arn Anderson TV Title Match
Nasty Boys vs. Blue Bloods WCW Tag Team Title Match
Sting vs. Meng
Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage *** (good though lackluster match for these two, but then again it was a pretty lackluster show overall, so no surprise I suppose)
Great American Bash 1996
Fire & Ice vs. The Steiner Brothers
El Gato v. Konnan U.S. Title Match
Marcus Bagwell vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko Cruiserweight Title Match ****1/4 (this was Rey's WCW debut)
Big Bubba v. John Tenta
Chris Benoit vs. Kevin Sullivan Falls Count Anywhere ****1/2 (great match and truly original, but it's been done by others and therefore loses a little luster....still a must-see though)
Lord Steven Regal v. Sting ***3/4
Ric Flair/Arn Anderson vs. Steve McMichael/Kevin Greene
Bischoff interviews the Outsiders (this was one of the biggest Holy Shit moments ever, and it's still pretty awesome even today)
Lex Luger vs. The Giant WCW Title Match
Great American Bash 1999
Brian Knobs vs. Hak
Mikey Whipwreck vs. Van Hammer
Disco Inferno vs. Buff Bagwell
Curt Hennig/Bobby Duncum Jr. vs. Rey Mysterio Jr./Konnan (you know, it's ironic....this was during the Rap vs. Country fued going on, and only 4 short years later, both Hennig and Duncum, Team Country, are both dead while everyone who was on the Rap side is still alive....just something you wouldn't expect)
Ernest Miller vs. Horace Hogan
Ric Flair vs. Roddy Piper Winner gets Presidency of WCW
Sting vs. Rick Steiner TV Title Match
Chris Benoit/Saturn vs. Jersey Triad (Page/Kanyon for this match) *** (this was the only match above * on this entire show....I honestly don't even know why I have it)
Randy Savage vs. Kevin Nash