IT WAS 24 YEARS AGO TODAY THAT RIC FLAIR WON HIS SEVENTH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP AND BECAME THE VERY FIRST WCW CHAMPION (wink, wink) WCW @ East Rutherford, NJ - Meadowlands - January 11, 1991 (5,000; the low turnout was partially due to a snowstorm) WCW TV Champion Tom Zenk pinned the Black Angel (Jose Luis Rivera) at 5:02 with a missile dropkick Brad Armstrong pinned the Cuban Assassin at 5:45 with the side Russian legsweep Michael Wallstreet pinned Terry Taylor at 8:48 with a roll over and grabbing both the ropes and tights for leverage; cameras were at ringside to film part of the match for a segment on Wallstreet for Inside Edition Sid Vicious pinned Brian Pillman with the powerbomb at 4:29 El Gigante, Tommy Rich, & Ricky Morton defeated Bobby Eaton, Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin when Gigante pinned Garvin at the 12-minute mark with a boot to the face; during the contest, the crowd chanted We want Stan at Eaton; after the bout, Hayes & Garvin attacked Eaton, with Eaton fighting back and hitting a double clothesline WCW US Champion Lex Luger (w/ Lawrence Taylor) defeated Curtis Hughes (w/ Paul E. Dangerously) in a football challenge match at 2:06; both men wore football gear and the goal was to knock the opponent over the top rope WCW US Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated the Master Blasters at 6:28 when Scott pinned Blade with the Frankensteiner Ric Flair pinned WCW World Champion Sting at 20:38 to win the title with his feet on the ropes for leverage after knocking the champions foot off the bottom rope, moments after the two men collided Arn Anderson & Barry Windham defeated WCW Tag Team Champions Doom in a non-title steel cage match at 3:54 when Windham pinned Ron Simmons after Butch Reed accidentally hit his partner with a foreign object https://youtube/watch?v=5dGtW31X83s&list=FLeMq2a8LuQK7fcAjUva3V8A&index=10
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:30:58 +0000
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