Fall Brawl '94: War Games

Fall Brawl '94: War Games
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Promotion	World Championship Wrestling
Date	September 18, 1994
City	Roanoke, Virginia
Venue	Roanoke Civic Center
Attendance	6,500
Pay-per-view chronology
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Fall Brawl '94: War Games was the second Fall Brawl professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on September 18, 1994 from the Roanoke Civic Center in Roanoke, Virginia. As of 2014, the event is available on the WWE Network. ^[1]

Production

Background

The WarGames match was created when Dusty Rhodes was inspired by a viewing of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome . ^[2] It was originally used as a specialty match for the Four Horsemen. The first WarGames match took place at The Omni in Atlanta during the NWA's Great American Bash '87 tour, where it was known as War Games: The Match Beyond. It became a traditional Fall Brawl event from 1993 to 1998.

Storylines

The event featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Professional wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. ^[3]

Event

Other on-screen personnel

Role:	Name:
Commentator	Tony Schiavone
	Bobby Heenan
Interviewer	Gene Okerlund
Ring announcer	Gary Michael Cappetta
	Michael Buffer
Referees	Randy Anderson
	Nick Patrick

Ricky Steamboat was originally scheduled to defend the WCW United States Championship against Steve Austin, but he was suffering from a back injury and could not compete. As a result, Austin won the United States title by forfeit. This was Steamboat's last appearance in WCW as he was fired shortly thereafter and decided to retire from the ring. Following the announcement that Austin was the new champion WCW Commissioner Nick Bockwinkel declared that Austin would defend his title against a mystery opponent. As Austin was protesting the decision, saying he would not wrestle again that night, Hacksaw Jim Duggan was revealed as the mystery opponent.

In the triangle match Vader pinned The Guardian Angel in the first part of the match. The second part, between Vader and Sting ended in a 15-minute time limit draw. Referee Nick Patrick declared the match would continue with an overtime period of five minutes. The overtime period expired with no decision, so Patrick declared the match to be in sudden death to determine a winner. Vader won the match in sudden death when a masked man attacked Sting while Race and the Guardian Angel fought at ringside, distracting Patrick; Sting had knocked Vader down first but Vader got up before Patrick turned his back to the action and declared Vader the winner. As per a pre-match stipulation Vader became number one contender for Hulk Hogan's WCW World Heavyweight Championship.

According to Dusty Rhodes on The War Games DVD, Col. Rob Parker had suffered diarrhea during the final moments of the War Games match.

Results

No.	Results [4] [5]	Stipulations	Times
1D	Brad Armstrong and Brian Armstrong defeated Bad Attitude (Steve Keirn and Bobby Eaton)	Tag team match	—
2	Johnny B. Badd defeated Lord Steven Regal (c)	Singles match for the WCW World Television Championship	11:08
3	Kevin Sullivan (with Dave Sullivan) defeated Cactus Jack	Loser Leaves WCW match [6]	06:08
4	Jim Duggan defeated Steve Austin (c)	Singles match for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship	00:35
5	Pretty Wonderful (Paul Orndorff and Paul Roma) (c) defeated Stars and Stripes (The Patriot and Marcus Alexander Bagwell)	Tag team match for the WCW World Tag Team Championship	12:54
6	Vader defeated Sting and The Guardian Angel	Triangle Elimination match	30:22
7	Dusty Rhodes, Dustin Rhodes and The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) defeated The Stud Stable (Terry Funk, Arn Anderson, Bunkhouse Buck and Col. Robert Parker) (with Meng)	WarGames match	19:05
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match D  – this was a dark match

References

1. "Every pay-per-view available on WWE Network". WWE. February 4, 2014. Archived from the original on February 5, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
2. WCW War Games: WCW’s Most Notorious Matches 2013. WWE.
3. Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications . Retrieved 2015-11-15.
4. "Fall Brawl". thehistoryofwwe.com.
5. "Pro wrestling history (9/18): Flair pins Dusty, Triple H defeats CM Punk in No DQ". Wrestling Observer Newsletter . September 18, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
6. Foley, Mick. Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.281)