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 1991

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.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Dark match: The Junkyard Dog defeated Black Bart (12:45)
  • JYD pinned Bart.
• P.N. News and Bobby Eaton defeated Steve Austin and Terrance Taylor (with Lady Blossom) in a Scaffold match (6:19)
  • Eaton grabbed Austin/Taylor's flag to win.
• The Yellow Dog defeated Johnny B. Badd (with Teddy Long) by disqualification (6:00)
  • Badd was disqualified when Long interfered.
• Ron Simmons defeated Oz (with Merlin the Wizard) (7:55)
  • Simmons pinned Oz.
• Big Josh defeated Black Blood (with Kevin Sullivan) in a Lumberjack match (5:39)
  • Josh pinned Black Blood.
• Dustin Rhodes and The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Badstreet, Jimmy Garvin, Michael Hayes) (with 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 (with Diamond Dallas Page) defeated Tom Zenk (9:00)
  • Stud pinned Zenk.
• El Gigante (with a bunch of midgets) defeated One Man Gang (with Kevin Sullivan) (6:13)
  • Gigante pinned One Man Gang.
• Richard Morton (with Alexandra York) defeated Robert Gibson (17:03)
  • Morton pinned Gibson.
• 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)
  • Luger pinned Windham.
• Rick Steiner and Missy Hyatt defeated Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously in a Steel cage match (2:08)
  • Steiner pinned Dangerously.