Bash at the Beach (1999) | |||
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Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | ||
Date | July 11, 1999 [1] | ||
City | Fort Lauderdale, Florida [1] | ||
Venue | National Car Rental Center [1] | ||
Attendance | 13,624 [2] | ||
Tagline(s) | A Tidal Wave of Trash-Talkin', Body Slammin', Tsunami Fury. | ||
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The 1999 Bash at the Beach was the sixth Bash at the Beach professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event took place on July 11, 1999, from the National Car Rental Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
As of 2014, the event is available on the WWE Network. [3]
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [4]
Role: | Name: |
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Commentators | Tony Schiavone |
Bobby Heenan | |
Interviewers | Gene Okerlund |
Mike Tenay | |
Ring announcers | Michael Buffer |
David Penzer | |
Referees | Randy Anderson |
Johnny Boone | |
Mickie Jay | |
Nick Patrick | |
Charles Robinson | |
Billy Silverman |
The main event was a tag team match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in which the person to score the deciding pinfall would win the title. The match pitted champion Kevin Nash and Sting against Randy Savage and Sid Vicious. Savage pinned Nash to win the title. Other featured matches on the card were Roddy Piper versus Buff Bagwell in a boxing match, The No Limit Soldiers (Konnan, Rey Misterio, Jr., Swoll, and B.A.) versus The West Texas Rednecks (Curt Hennig, Bobby Duncum Jr., Barry Windham, and Kendall Windham) in an elimination match and a Junkyard Invitational match, which took place in a junkyard and the match could only be won climbing over a chain link fence and escaping. Fit Finlay escaped the junkyard to win the match and the Hardcore Junkyard Invitational Trophy. At the end of the match Hak put Finlay in the trunk of a car and Jerry Lynn riding a forklift picked up the car. Finlay was able to get out of the trunk before Flynn could put the car in a smash compactor. [5]
In 2015, Kevin Pantoja of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 2.0 [Very Bad], stating, "Another bad show from WCW and they are especially bad from this era. The only match that is really worth anything was the Tag Team Title bout. The only other thing on this entire card to even crack two stars was the opener and that was based on pure entertainment over wrestling skill. I had to endure Swol, topless Piper, Rick Steiner vs. Van Hammer, US Champ David Flair and a damn Junkyard match. If I find a good WCW Pay-Per-View from their last two+ years, I’ll be stunned." [6]
Elimination no. | Wrestler | Team | Eliminated by | Elimination move | Time |
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1 | Bobby Duncum, Jr. | West Texas Rednecks | Swoll | Springboard leg drop by Mysterio | 06:26 |
2 | Brad Armstrong | No Limit Soldiers | Curt Hennig | Hennig-Plex | 09:07 |
3 | Kendall Windham | West Texas Rednecks | Konnan | DDT | 10:52 |
4 | Konnan and Barry Windham | No Limit Soldiers and West Texas Rednecks | N/A | Double count-out | 13:05 |
5 | Curt Hennig | West Texas Rednecks | Rey Mysterio, Jr. | Swan Dive from on top of Swoll's shoulders | 15:35 |
Survivors: | Rey Mysterio, Jr. and Swoll (No Limit Soldiers) |
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