1988
12/7 - Clash of the Champions IV: Season’s Beatings (Flair/Windham vs. Midnight Express!)
12/26 - Starrcade: True Gritt (Flair/Luger II, Road Warriors vs. Dusty/Sting!)
1989
1/14 - World Championship Wrestling (Eddie Gilbert gets a US title shot against Barry Windham!)
1/21 - World Championship Wrestling (Eddie Gilbert makes a friend real quick!)
1/21 - Main Event (Midnight Express madness!)
1/28 - World Championship Wrestling (Steamboat beats up a commie or two!)
2/4 - World Championship Wrestling (Steamboat and Flair have it out!)
2/11 - World Championship Wrestling (The Road Warriors and the Varsity Club just can’t seem to get along!)
2/12 - Main Event (Sting and Michael Hayes take on a pissed off Ric Flair and Barry Windham!)
2/15 - Clash of the Champions V: St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Flair gets stripped down to his skimpies!)
2/18 - World Championship Wrestling (The go-home show for Chi-Town Rumble!)
2/20 - Chi-Town Rumble (Flair/Steamboat, Windham/Luger!)
2/25 - World Championship Wrestling (The fallout from Chi-Town Rumble!)
3/4 - World Championship Wrestling (The Varsity Club must be rich! All those sports endorsements!)
3/11 - World Championship Wrestling (Luger gets dangerous on the Danger Zone by flexing those biceps!)
3/18 - World Championship Wrestling (MUTA IS HERE!)
3/25 - World Championship Wrestling (Steamboat wrestles a snake and a tiger! He’s like Man vs. Wild!)
4/1 - World Championship Wrestling (Rotunda/Sting for the TV title! Farewell, WTBS Studios!)
4/2 - Clash of the Champions VI: Ragin’ Cajun (Steamboat/Flair 2/3 Falls! DUH!)
4/8 - World Championship Wrestling (Ric Flair demands that justice be served! WOO!)
4/15 - World Championship Wrestling (Steamboat/Simmons before the catchphrases!)
4/22 - World Championship Wrestling (Look out! The Road Warriors are ANGRY!)
4/29 - World Championship Wrestling (Ric Flair loooooves the ladies, while Steamboat loooooves the babies!)
05/07 - Wrestle War: Music City Showdown (Flair/Steamboat III: The Final Battle, for now!)
06/14 - Clash of the Champions VII: Guts & Glory (Funk/Steamboat, plus new tag champs!)
07/23 - Great American Bash: Glory Days (Flair/Funk, Luger/Steamboat, Sting/Muta, Wargames - YES!)
09/12 - Clash of the Champions VIII: Fall Brawl (Flair gets in a fight with a plastic bag!)
10/28 - Halloween Havoc (THUNDER DOME CAGE MATCH!)
11/15 - Clash of the Champions IX: New York Knockout (Flair/Funk in an “I Quit” match!)
12/13 - Starrcade: Future Shock (Future Shock - sounds like a bad ’70s sci-fi movie!)
1990
2/6 - Clash of the Champions X: Texas Shootout (Sting has the Worst Night Ever!)
2/25 - Wrestle War: Wild Thing (The best of the ’80s meets the best of the ’90s!)
5/19 - Capital Combat: Return of Robocop (Flair/Luger again for the last time! They’re serious this time!)
6/13 - Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush (Hurricane Hugo reminders for the win!)
7/7 - Great American Bash: The New Revolution (Sting/Flair! That’s all that matters!)
9/5 - Clash of the Champions XII: Fall Brawl (Sting gets all confused thanks to the Black Scorpion!)
10/27 - Halloween Havoc (More Black Scorpions, plus the end of the Midnight Express as we knew it!)
11/20 - Clash of the Champions XIII: Thanksgiving Thunder (This show sucks!)
12/16 - Starrcade: Collision Course (The end of the Black Scorpion!)
1991
1/19 - Power Hour (Some Indians catch a break, others don’t!)
1/26 - Power Hour (Brian Pillman gets in trouble with some dirty cops!)
1/30 - Clash of the Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite (Flair/S. Steiner! Finally!)
2/24 - Wrestle War (WARGAMES! How can you go wrong?)
5/19 - Superbrawl I (Dream matches galore - like Sid/Gigante!)
6/1 - World Championship Wrestling (Steve who is very stunning debuts!)
6/14 - Clash of the Champions XV: Knocksville USA (Eaton gets a world title shot!)
7/13 - Worldwide (As if people couldn’t stand Jim Herd as it was…)
7/14 - Great American Bash (The “Ric Flair is gone” show.)
7/20 - Worldwide (The Yellow Dog gets under the skin of Barry Windham!)
8/3 - Worldwide (Mr. Hughes makes a switch!)
8/10 - Worldwide (Scott’s revenge!)
8/17 - Worldwide (The Freebirds get into it with the Enforcers! Not smart!)
8/24 - Worldwide (Ron Simmons calls Lex Luger out!)
9/5 - Clash of the Champions XVI: Fall Brawl (Stupid Kaz.)
9/7 - Worldwide (Cactus Jack sends Sting a mail-order girl, but he takes it a little too literally!)
9/21 - Worldwide (Tom Zenk decides to become a ref!)
10/5 - Worldwide (Cactus/Eaton!)
10/12 - Worldwide (Brian Pillman and Mike Graham battle the York Foundation!)
10/19 - Worldwide (Dustin Rhodes takes on an angry black man!)
10/27 - Halloween Havoc (The Dangerous Alliance: Chapter One)
11/2 - Worldwide (With WCW, you take the good with the bad.)
11/16 - Worldwide (The go-to show for the Clash!)
11/19 - Clash of the Champions XVII (Sting finally finds out who his Santa Claus is!)
11/23 - Worldwide (Bobby Eaton does something interesting!)
11/30 - Worldwide (The entire Dangerous Alliance on the same show!)
12/7 - Worldwide (Paul E. Dangerously share his thoughts and opinions!)
12/14 - Worldwide (More six-man tag fun with the Dangerous Alliance!)
12/21 - Worldwide (Sting’s serious when he calls it the Scorpion DeathLOCK!)
12/29 - Starrcade (Uh oh! Battlebowl!)
1992
1/4 - Worldwide (Steve Austin defends the TV title against Ron Simmons! *Insert catchphrase here*)
1/11 - Worldwide (The Dangerous Alliance has to deal with Ron Simmons AGAIN!)
1/11 - World Championship Wrestling (BUFF! DADDY! Can he last ten minutes with Austin?)
1/18 - Worldwide (Ricky Steamboat meets Steve Austin for the TV belt! How does that sound to you?)
1/21 - Clash of the Champions XVIII (The good guys make a step *forward* in their war with the Dangerous Alliance)
1/25 - Worldwide (Pillman/Zenk finally get that US tag titles rematch!)
2/1 - Worldwide (What a wacky main event!)
2/22 - Worldwide (Ricky Steamboat and Cactus Jack DID really wrestle each other!)
2/29 - Superbrawl II (Sting/Luger, Dangerous Alliance, Pillman/Liger! It’s the best!)
5/17 - Wrestle War (The last Wargames before it gets castrated!)
6/20 - Beach Blast (Rude/Steamboat for 30 MINUTES! Plus, the final blowoff of the Sting/Cactus feud.)
6/22 - Clash of the Champions XIX (The Miracle-Violence Connection make a statement!)
7/12 - Great American Bash (You like tag team wrestling? No? Well too bad!)
9/2 - Clash of the Champions XX (Eight-man elimination matches for teh win!)
9/26 - Worldwide (The Steiners get them some of Doc & Gordy!)
10/25 - Halloween Havoc (Spinning wheels and making deals.)
11/18 - Clash of the Champions XXI (Windham gets pissed when people don’t cheat to win!)
11/28 - Worldwide (Sting takes on the Barbarian! Edge-of-your-seat stuff, I know!)
12/28 - Starrcade (Does anybody really need to be king of cable? What does that prove?)
1993
1/13 - Clash of the Champions XXII (Cactus Jack to the rescue!)
1/30 - Power Hour (Cactus wants a little bit of revenge on Orndorff! Plus, the Hollywood Blondes!)
2/6 - Power Hour (Double Main Event!)
2/20 - Power Hour (The Hollywood Blondes take on the tag champs! It’s like a PPV match for free!)
2/21 - Superbrawl III (Sting/Vader in a VICIOUS strap match! Plus, Chris Benoit!)
4/17 - Saturday Night (Mrs. Foley’s baby boy gets his first world title shot!)
5/15 - Worldwide (Flair for the Gold! Plus, Rick Rude looks to regain the title he never lost!)
5/23 - Slamboree (Paul Roma as a Horsemen? What? Really?)
6/16 - Clash of the Champions XXIII (Ric Flair makes his return to the ring - again!)
7/18 - Beach Blast (The boat goes *click click click*, Mr. Davey Boy sir!)
8/14 - Worldwide (Ricky Steamboat <3’s Paula chants!)
8/18 - Clash of the Champions XXIV (Vader vs. Davey Boy Smith, part deux!9/19 - Fall Brawl (Thank God for Ricky Steamboat and Steven Regal.)
10/24 - Halloween Havoc ()
11/10 - Clash of the Champions XXV (The end of the Hollywood Blondes.)
More to come!
Matt is in no way associated with WWE or anything that has to do with WWE. He is just a fan who has WAY too much free time on his hands.
Thanks for all the great WCW posts! I am a huge WCW fan! I have all the PPVS!
Wow. What awesome reviews! You know, most WCW fans (hell, wrestling fans in general) seem like they have become so consolidated in their thinking and such “smart” fans that they can no longer appreciate shows that don’t fit into the narrow mindset that the NWA/WCW was only good in 1989 and when the NWO was around. It’s just the in-style thing to rant on about how horrible WCW was and how great it is that it’s gone now, and a lot of it comes from these so called fans who’ve only seen these matches in 9 minute segments on YouTube. It’s nice to read a review from someone who watched some of these shows when they actually aired and can review them within their contexts. Keep up the good work, it’s been a good read.