Beach Blast
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Beach Blast was a professional wrestling pay-per-view promoted by World Championship Wrestling and held in the summers of 1992 and 1993. It was replaced by Bash at the Beach in 1994.
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[edit] 1992
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 DVD cover featuring Ricky Steamboat, Rick Rude, Madusa and Missy Hyatt |
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| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | ||
| Date | June 20, 1992 | ||
| Attendance | 5,000 | ||
| Venue | Mobile Civic Center | ||
| City | Mobile, Alabama | ||
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Beach Blast 1992 took place on June 20, 1992 and emanated from the Mobile Civic Center in Mobile, Alabama.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Dark match: The Junkyard Dog, Tom Zenk and Big Josh defeated Tracy Smothers, Richard Morton and Diamond Dallas Page
- Scotty Flamingo defeated Brian Pillman to win the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (17:29)
- Flamingo pinned Pillman.
- Ron Simmons defeated Terry Taylor (7:10)
- Simmons pinned Taylor.
- Greg Valentine defeated Marcus Bagwell (7:17)
- Valentine forced Bagwell to submit.
- Missy Hyatt defeated Madusa (with Paul E. Dangerously) in a Bikini contest
- Sting defeated Cactus Jack in a Falls Count Anywhere match (11:24)
- Sting pinned Jack after a flying clothesline from the top turnbuckle to the entrance ramp.
- Ricky Steamboat defeated Rick Rude 4-3 in an Iron Man Challenge (30:00)
- Rude pinned Steamboat (7:42)
- Rude pinned Steamboat (8:39)
- Rude was disqualified (9:40)
- Rude pinned Steamboat (10:11)
- Steamboat pinned Rude (17:39)
- Steamboat pinned Rude (20:22)
- Steamboat pinned Rude (29:25)
- Dustin Rhodes, Barry Windham and Nikita Koloff defeated The Dangerous Alliance (Arn Anderson, Steve Austin and Bobby Eaton) (with Paul E. Dangerously and Madusa) by disqualification (15:32)
- WCW World Tag Team Champions The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) fought The Miracle Violence Connection (Terry Gordy and Steve Williams) to a time-limit draw (30:00)
- The Steiners retained the title.
[edit] 1993
| Beach Blast 1993 | |||
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| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | ||
| Date | July 18, 1993 | ||
| Attendance | 8,600 | ||
| Venue | Mississippi Coast Coliseum | ||
| City | Biloxi, Mississippi | ||
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Beach Blast 1993[1] took place on July 18, 1993 and emanated from the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Paul Orndorff defeated Ron Simmons by disqualification to retain the WCW World Television Championship (11:15)
- Too Cold Scorpio and Marcus Bagwell defeated Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce (12:48)
- Scorpio pinned Pierce.
- Lord Steven Regal (with Sir William) defeated Erik Watts (7:31)
- Regal pinned Watts.
- Johnny B. Badd defeated Maxx Payne (4:50)
- Badd pinned Payne.
- The Hollywood Blonds (Brian Pillman and Steve Austin) defeated Paul Roma and Arn Anderson to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship (26:14)
- Austin pinned Roma.
- Dustin Rhodes fought Rick Rude to a 1-1 draw in an Iron Man Challenge for the vacant WCW United States Championship (30:00)
- Rude pinned Rhodes (13:19)
- Rhodes pinned Rude (26:56)
- Ric Flair defeated Barry Windham to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (11:15)
- Flair pinned Windham.
- Sting and Davey Boy Smith defeated Big Van Vader and Sid Vicious (with Harley Race and Col. Robert Parker) (16:44)
- Smith pinned Vader.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Beach Blast 93: One of the unholy trinity of mini-movie driven PPVs in 1992-1993, this one featured Sid Vicious in flip flops, orphans playing volleyball with Sting and Davey Boy Smith, and Cheatum the one eyed evil midget blowing up a boat while wearing a shark fin. Quite possibly RD's favorite induction of all time.
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