The Great American Bash 1991

The Great American Bash 1991
Information
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling
Date	July 14, 1991
Venue	Baltimore Arena
City	Baltimore, Maryland
Attendance	7,000
Last Event	SuperBrawl I
Next Event	Halloween Havoc

The Great American Bash 1991 took place on July 14, 1991 at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.

The card was originally to be highlighted by a Steel cage match between Ric Flair and Lex Luger for the WCW World Championship, and this match was heavily promoted on WCW TV. However, just a few days before the show, then-WCW Executive Vice President Jim Herd fired Flair over a contract dispute, stripping him of the title in the process. Flair took the the physical title belt with him to the World Wrestling Federation, so WCW had to make a new WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt; however, the new belt could not be readied in time for the event, so an older belt (the Florida Heavyweight Championship from Dusty Rhodes's short-lived Professional Wrestling Federation) was used as a temporary replacement, with a makeshift "WCW World Heavyweight Championship" plate affixed to the front.

Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.

• Dark match: The Junkyard Dog defeated Black Bart (12:45)
• P.N. News and Bobby Eaton defeated Steve Austin and Terrance Taylor (w/ Lady Blossom) in a Scaffold match (6:19)
• The Yellow Dog defeated Johnny B. Badd (w/ Teddy Long) by disqualification (6:00)
• Ron Simmons defeated Oz (w/ Merlin the Wizard) (7:55)
• Big Josh defeated Black Blood (w/ Kevin Sullivan) in a Lumberjack match (5:39)
• Dustin Rhodes and The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Badstreet, Jimmy Garvin, Michael Hayes) (w/ Big Daddy Dink) in a Elimination match (17:10)
  • Hayes pinned Armstrong (13:49)
  • Hayes was disqualified (14:04)
  • Garvin pinned Smothers (15:16)
  • Rhodes pinned Garvin (15:24)
  • Rhodes pinned Badstreet (17:10)
• The Diamond Stud (w/ Diamond Dallas Page) defeated Tom Zenk (9:00)
• El Gigante (with a bunch of midgets) defeated One Man Gang (w/ Kevin Sullivan) (6:13)
• Richard Morton (w/ Alexandra York) defeated Robert Gibson (17:03)
• Nikita Koloff defeated Sting in a Russian Chain match (11:38)
• Lex Luger defeated Barry Windham in a Steel Cage match to win the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship (12:25)
• Rick Steiner and Missy Hyatt defeated Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously in a Steel cage match (2:08)

External Links

• The Great American Bash 1991