WCW "Fall Brawl 1999"

[adamclark52]

WCW “Fall Brawl”
September 12th, 1999
From the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Bobby “the Brain” Heenan and Mike Tenay

“Can Sting trust Hulk Hogan or Lex Luger?”

Tonight: Hulk Hogan verses Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and Chris Benoit defends the United States Championship against the 79-0 Sid Vicious

Vampiro & the Insane Clown Posse vs. Rey Mysterio Jr., Eddie Guerrero & Billy Kidman
Say what you want about the Insane Clown Posse; the fact that they still do wrestling twenty years after this should endure them to wrestling fans that they were there for no other reason other than that they wanted to be. That said they were extremely sloppy and green in this match, especially Shaggy 2 Dope. The crowd was extremely hot. Hotter than I’ve ever heard a WCW crowd.
Winners: Rey Mysterio Jr., Billy Kidman & Eddie Guerrero

The Revolution guarantee a clean sweep in all their matches tonight.

Recap of Lenny recently winning the WCW Cruiserweight Championship and Kaz Hayashi pinning him to win a match...a match that he was wrestling against Lodi...oh, WCW.

For the WCW Cruiserweight Championship
Kaz Hayashi vs. Lenny (champion) w/Lodi
This was a solid match that really didn’t matter.
Winner: Lenny

Mean Gene Okerlund brings Sting out to the ring. Sting says he has no problem with Hulk Hogan...until he gets in the ring with him tonight.

Video package of the Revolution’s feud with the First Family.

No Disqualifications
The First Family (Brian Knobs and Hugh Morris) w/Jimmy Hart vs. the Revolution (Shane Douglas and Dean Malenko)
The best part of this was Shane Douglas getting the Saginaw, Michigan crowd pumped up for the match. I can see saying the wrong city but he was over six hundred and fifty miles off. And of all the wrong cities to name, “Saginaw”? The match started out as a brawl but after the first five or so minutes became a standard wrestling match.
Winners: the First Family

Perry Saturn verses Rick Steiner promo.

For the WCW World Television Championship
Perry Saturn vs. Rick Steiner (champion)
This was a decent “big man” match but I really couldn’t get invested in.
Winner: Rick Steiner

Mean Gene Okerlund is with Hulk Hogan who swears he will not stab Sting in the back.

Berlyn w/the Wall vs. “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan
Considering this was Berlyns in-ring debut it went on way longer than it should have and Duggan got way too much offence in.
Winner: Berlyn
Buff Bagwell (who was supposed to have wrestled Berlyn in the previous match) just arrived at the arena. He goes to the ring and thanks Duggan for filling in for him but Duggan doesn’t seem impressed by his show of affection.

For the WCW World Tag Team Championships
Harlem Heat vs. the West Texas Rednecks (champions) w/Curt Hennig
This was a good Tag Team Match. I was really hoping Curly Bill would do a run-in.
Winners: Harlem Heat (new WCW World Tag Team Champions)

For the WCW United States Championship
Sid Vicious vs. Chris Benoit (champion)
This was okay. Benoit took a lot of shots to the head.
Winner: Sid Vicious (new WCW United States Champion and now 80-0)

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Goldberg
This didn’t have quite the fire of their match eleven months earlier at Halloween Havoc 1998 but it was still a much better wrestling match than you'd usually get from Goldberg.
Winner: Goldberg

For the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
Sting vs. Hulk Hogan (champion)
I was watching WCW in late-1999 but I have virtually no memory of Hogan going back to red and yellow and holding the World Heavyweight Championship. The ending was as should be expected with Diamond Dallas Page, Bret Hart, Sid Vicious and Lex Luger all running in before Sting pulled the turn and double-crossed Hogan.
Winner: Sting (new WCW World Heavyweight Champion)
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This wasn’t too bad a show. It felt like a b-show. Nothing had that important feel to it. Even the main event. I was really surprised how much the crowd was into the entire show. Late-1999 WCW is often seen as a company in the early stages of dying but you wouldn’t have known that here. The first match was fun and the last four matches were good enough. Diamond Dallas Page verses Goldberg was the highlight.

The Revolution lost every single one of their matches.

This was the first Fall Brawl to not have a War Games match. The icon on the WWE Network said "WCW Fall Brawl: War Games" and that's why I chose it.

From Wikipedia:

Berlyn was originally supposed to face Buff Bagwell, but the storyline was that Bagwell was late in arriving. In reality, Bagwell had refused to lose the match. Instead Berlyn wrestled against Jim Duggan.

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If you add up the ages of the five wrestlers on the cover at the time, you get 207.

[adamclark52]

Sept 22, 2019 18:09:07 GMT -5 @irontyger said:

If you add up the ages of the five wrestlers on the cover at the tme, you get 207.

Yeah, WWE hasn't quite gotten to WCW-levels of old-timer usage just yet.

[Shark]

"Brawl for it All" Had to be a rib, right?

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

This show had a really bad buyrate, and was apparently poorly promoted even by WCW standards.

[Pipe_Bomb2k13]

Is that the one where the crowd pop pretty big for Sting hitting Hogan with the bat to turn heel?

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Sept 22, 2019 20:59:46 GMT -5 Pipe_Bomb2k13 said:

Is that the one where the crowd pop pretty big for Sting hitting Hogan with the bat to turn heel?

Yep.

A Sting heel turn isn't going to work in WCW against Hogan. It'd have to come against somebody like people's champion DDP. a face Luger, or Rey Mysterio. There was no way WCW crowds were going to cheer Hogan over Sting.

[Shark]

Decided to start watching it thanks to this thread and wow Kidman nearly kills Vampiro with the shooting star. Lands with his knee right to Vamp's face.

[mauled]

Bret Hart reduced to a run in on a Hogan match 😬🙁😡

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Sept 22, 2019 22:02:42 GMT -5 mauled said:

Bret Hart reduced to a run in on a Hogan match 😬🙁😡

That's how Bret began his WCW tenure..

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Give the show this - it's probably better than the WWF PPV that month since at least it didn't have the Kennel From Hell, a twelve minute Chyna match that ended in a DQ, or stupid referee strike shenanigans.

[cabbageboy]

This show was barely promoted since it was a lame duck PPV literally a week after Bischoff was removed from power. Russo was there for the next PPV however and that one was a real doozy, but this show was just meh.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Sept 22, 2019 22:11:13 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Give the show this - it's probably better than the WWF PPV that month since at least it didn't have the Kennel From Hell, a twelve minute Chyna match that ended in a DQ, or stupid referee strike shenanigans.

Well, this show did have Sid and his "undefeated streak" that nobody could decide was a real win-streak or not, despite the fact that Sid lost multiple matches this year and most of his "wins" consisted of beating up Cruiserweights and jobbers in run ins or backstage attacks.

[mauled]

Sept 22, 2019 22:04:05 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

Sept 22, 2019 22:02:42 GMT -5 mauled said:

Bret Hart reduced to a run in on a Hogan match 😬🙁😡

That's how Bret began his WCW tenure..

Thats both true and tragic at the same time.

Well they paid him really well for it