Scott Keith Clash of Champions Fort Bragg Review

Turns out I haven't really done this show since 98ish, and that's just ridiculous.  So everyone should know the deal with this by now, as Jim Crockett decided to run a free TV special to fuck with WrestleMania Iv, and information technology worked spectacularly well, tanking the buyrate and making a star out of Sting.  My wrestling friends in schoolhouse were PUMPED well-nigh this evidence back in the day and we were crushed to discover out that it was on TBS and thus we couldn't meet it on TV here in Canada.  Also, give thanks god this is the original TV version and not the dwelling house video ane.

Live from Greensboro, NC

Your hosts are Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone & Bob Caudle

World TV title:  Mike Rotundo five. Jimmy Garvin

This is under amateur rules, which is a weird way to kick off a big show.  A one-count wins and there's rounds.  Rotundo goes for a single-leg and pulls the tights to do and then, but Garvin takes him downward with a slam and Rotundo bails.  Interesting tension here in that any cover basically ends information technology.  Garvin works on a facelock and they threaten to exchange fisticuffs, only Teddy Long breaks them upwardly.  Rotundo gets a clothesline and goes for the encompass, but Garvin rolls to his stomach every bit the round expires.  2nd round and Rotundo attacks and goes up (like they do in amateur wrestling), which allows Garvin to slam him off.  Garvin with the brainbuster, but he goes after Kevin Sullivan and Rotundo rolls him up for the pin at 6:45 to retain.  And so Precious kicks some serious ass, laying out Rick Steiner with a 2×4 and choking Sullivan down with a glaze hanger.  Null much to this.  *one/2

Steve Williams returns from Japan to offer his support for Dusty Rhodes and claiming Ric Flair.  So, uh, Dr. Decease with a live mic, bad idea.

US tag team titles:  The Midnight Express v. The Fantastics

Oh man, "Chase" has been expunged from the Midnights' entrance!  That'due south criminal.  Large ball to start and Fulton goes crazy with a chair, taking out Eaton on the floor so chasing the Express into another brawl outside.  This fourth dimension the Express gets the best of it, as Lane lays Fulton out with a chair and fifty-fifty Cornette is throwing shit around.  JR notes that they're not here "to listen to rock n roll music and look good".  Clearly.  In the ring, the Fantastics toss them around, simply finally the Express gets their shit together and takes out Rogers with a Full Elimination.  That'southward more than similar it.  Superkick from Lane and Cornette blatantly holds up a table, equally Eaton sends Rogers into information technology behind the ref's back.  Now THAT'Southward some spectacular cheating.  Eaton with a powerslam and flying elbow and they pound on Rogers in the corner.  Sabotage-style flying human knee from Eaton as the crowd is going batshit.  I dearest that they don't just do the standard "punch and kick in the corner" stuff for the heel offense here, it'southward crazy double-teams and non-stop action.  Lane tosses Rogers after a hope spot and Eaton slams him on the tabular array, and he's still moving so Eaton bulldogs him on the tabular array likewise.  Back in, more awesome double-teaming, merely Rogers lunges over for the hot tag…which the ref doesn't run across.  And then Cornette leaps in and starts hitting him with the tennis dissonance to boot.  He hits the wrong guy, however, and the Fantastics hit Eaton with the Rocket Launcher for the pin and the titles at 10:20?  Nope, every bit in fact the ref had been thrown over the top rope and thus it's a Dusty Terminate instead.  Crappy terminate, but it at to the lowest degree built to the Fantastics winning the belts for existent soon after.  This was just crazy action from start to finish.  ****i/four

Meanwhile, Jim Cornette does a one-act routine with Eddie Haskell.

Gary Hart introduces us to Vince Russo's twin brother Al Perez, who wants Dusty's US title.  Notice how the babyfaces make sure to support Dusty and the heels challenge Dusty?

And at present the height ten seeds for the Crockett Cup, many of which ended upwardly not happening due to re-booking stuff:

ten.  Ivan Koloff & Dick Murdoch

9.  Sting & Ron Garvin

8.  Varsity Social club

7. Fantastics

6. Windham & Luger

5. Powers of Pain

4. Midnight Express

3. Route Warriors

ii. Nikita & Dusty

1. Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard

Chicago Street Fight:  Dusty Rhodes & The Road Warriors v. The Powers of Pain & Ivan Koloff

The ropes are wrapped in barbed wire just for fun.  Animal is wearing a hockey mask due to having a weight dropped on his face, and then he'southward rather upset.  The babyfaces beat on the Powers and of course Dusty is the first one to bleed.  The poor ref merely stands around exterior waiting for a pinfall, and Beast quickly finishes Barbarian with a powerslam.  Just a big messy ball, cypher to it.  ½*

Nikita Koloff is back and he's high on SPORTS, not drugs.  As well, Dusty Rhodes is his friend.

NWA World tag squad titles:  Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson five. Barry Windham & Lex Luger

The Horsemen had been champions forever and teaming up Windham & Luger was the nuclear option to deal with the problem once and for all.  It not only made it sweeter for fans when they succeeded, but made the Horsemen seems all the more terrible when they outsmarted everyone and got the belts back again.  Ah, those were the days.  Farewell to Luger'due south music, by the way.  Luger overpowers Tully to starting time, and clotheslines both champions.  Powerslam for Tully and he racks him, but Arn kicks him in the knee and quickly goes to work on it.  The Horsemen switch off on the knee, simply Barry gets a quick tag and cleans business firm.  Lariat for Tully and he drops the knee, and his ain powerslam gets two.  Sleeper and Tully rolls out to escape, but Barry merely hangs on.  Tully tries going upward and gets slammed off, and Windham follows with an intestinal stretch, leaving him open up for a Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane from AA.  That gets two.  The oversupply is merely insane for the faces, popping for everything.  Spinebuster gets two and Arn does the knucklelock spot and lands on Windham's knees, but brings Tully back in equally he pounds away for two.  Windham comes dorsum with a bodypress for two and they collide, setting up the pinfall reversal spot.  Windham reverses the span into a gutwrench suplex, only Anderson cuts off the tag and works on the arm.  Windham fights out of it, but Arn takes him downwardly again, and they barrel heads.  Back to Tully for the slingshot suplex, but that only gets two.  Arn tin't cut off another tag, and Luger is HERE.  Clotheslines for everyone and the crowd is just going crazy every bit Luger is no-selling everything.  Tully trips him up, but Luger comes correct back with a powerslam for Arn and it's BONZO GONZO.  JJ grabs a chair, but Luger rams Arn into it and the popular redefines the term "blowing the roof off the joint at 9:34, ****1/4 Not only some of the loudest sustained heat for whatever friction match y'all'll ever hear, just i of the fasted-paced tag team matches y'all'll ever see, as they just packed everything but the kitchen sink into a 10-minute match and threw it all there.  As well highly recommended is the rematch where Windham turned on Luger and ripped the hearts out of fans everywhere:

NWA World championship:  Ric Flair v. Sting

So this is Sting's kickoff big shot at the title, with a 45-minute Telly time limit and a console of judges to make sure there's a winner.  Including Jason Hervey and Eddie Haskell, then yous know they mean business concern.  Sting grabs the headlock to showtime and powers Flair downwardly off a wristlock.  They practise the exam of strength and Flair opts to chop out of it, but Sting no-sells information technology and hiptosses him out of the ring.  Back in, Sting controls with a hammerlock and they criss-cross into a press-slam from Sting.  Sting takes him down with a flying headscissors into the hiptoss, and back to the headlock again.  Flair fights upwardly and hiptosses out of it, but Sting counters and goes right back to it again.  Flair fights up and Sting hiptosses him and tries another dropkick, but Flair dodges him.  Sting gets tossed but pops right back in and fires abroad in the corner, then right back to the headlock once again.  Flair chops out of it and they slug it out in the corner, and Sting gets some other press slam, into the bearhug.

Flair makes it to the corner to escape and Sting tries to follow with the Stinger splash, but misses and hits his arm on the mail.  Flair is all over him, tossing him and running him into the railing.  Back in, Flair throws the chops and Sting goes down, so Flair hammers on the back.  Kneedrop times two and Flair rips at the face just to be a bastard.  He rakes the confront on the ropes and fires more chops in the corner, and Sting ends upwardly on the floor again.  Flair sends him into the railing again and they head back in then Flair can chop him once again.  Sting gets fired upwardly, though, and slugs Flair right out of the ring, but charges at Flair and hits the post.  And so the arm is injure again and Flair goes to town back in the band, only Sting pops upwards and slugs away in the corner.  Clothesline gets two.  Flair tries to brand a run for it, but Sting suplexes him back in and into the Scorpion Deathlock.  Flair quickly makes the ropes, so Sting takes Flair to the corner once more and shrugs off a chop.  He slugs Flair downwardly for two, only Ric is in the ropes once again.  Sting hiptosses him and tries a clothesline, simply Flair moves and Sting hits the floor once again.  Flair takes a breather, only Sting comes in with a high cross for ii.  Flair catches him with the kneecrusher, however, and starts pounding on the knee.  Some other kneecrusher and Sting bails to the floor.  Back in, Flair pounds on the knee again and adds a backdrop suplex, and now we go to school!  Flair uses the ropes to help as usual, but Sting powers into the reversal.  Flair is up first, however, and goes afterwards the genu again, then sets up on the frock for a suplex.  Oversupply freaks out, but Sting suplexes him back in instead, simply to miss a big splash.

They fight for the abdominal stretch and Sting wins that, but Flair hiptosses out.  Flair chops him down and goes up, merely Sting slams him off for two.  He pulls Flair into the corner and posts him, then gets his own figure-4.  Flair escapes, so Sting stomps on the articulatio genus again and yanks him out of the corner to work on the leg again.  Flair Flip and he hits the floor, merely Sting follows and beats on him.  Flair tries a sunset flip back in, but Sting slugs him downwardly and rakes Flair's face on the ropes.  Sting fires away in the corner, and then no-sells Flair's atomic drop and clotheslines him for two.  Stinger splash misses and Sting hits the floor in dramatic way.  Dorsum in, they slug information technology out and Flair goes down, but comes back with a sleeper, so Sting rams him into the turnbuckle to break.  Flair tosses him in desperation, but Sting comes back in with a sunset flip, which Flair blocks for ii.  Young kicks him out of the ropes and Sting gets two.  Flair begs off and Sting whips him out, but Flair comes in with a high cross, reversed by Sting for two.  Sting no-sells all of Flair's offense now, hammering him in the corner to gear up upwardly the Stinger splash.  Scorpion Deathlock with time running out, simply Flair hangs on until the fourth dimension limit at 45:00.  The determination:  Two judges for Flair, 2 for Sting, one for a draw.  Silly booking bated, I definitely gave this one short shrift on the original bluster, as the full match flows much better and you lot tin can see the storyline of immature and hungry Sting fighting for his life but not knowing how to finish.  Definitely a modern classic.  ****1/2

Are you KIDDING me?  This is the one of the best wrestling shows in HISTORY, full cease, with 3 **** matches in a 2-hour bridge.  Yet another reason to justify the $ten for the Network.

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