WCW

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 loves the ladies, while Steamboat loves the babies!)
5/7 – Wrestle War: Music City Showdown (Flair/Steamboat III: The Final Battle, for now!)
6/14 – Clash of the Champions VII: Guts & Glory
(Funk/Steamboat, plus new tag champs!)
7/23 – Great American Bash: Glory Days (Flair/Funk, Luger/Steamboat, Sting/Muta, Wargames – YES!)
9/12 – 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 advance in the 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 (Whoomp, here it is.)
11/10 – Clash of the Champions XXV (The end of the Hollywood Blondes.)
11/20 – Battlebowl (This one is made for shenanigans!)
12/27 – Starrcade (Ric Flair: “If I retire, who’s going to be around to say ‘woo’?”)

1994
1/27 – Clash of the Champions XXVI (Vader looks for revenge on the Nature Boy!)
2/20 – Superbrawl IV (Flair/Vader II! This time in a cage!)
4/17 – Spring Stampede (Flair/Steamboat! Vader/Boss! Rude/Sting! Nasties/Cactus & Payne! It’s all here!)
5/22 – Slamboree (Terry Funk returns to WCW PPV!)
6/23 – Clash of the Champions XXVII (Sting/Flair to unify the world titles! Plus, Hulk Hogan appears!)
7/17 – Bash at the Beach (Hogan moves in for good and brings some friends with him too!)
8/24 – Clash of the Champions XXVIII (But what if the masked man really was Shane Stant?)
9/18 – Fall Brawl (Hogan and Flair have a chat. Plus, Dusty returns to WARGAMES!
10/23 – Halloween Havoc (Hulk Hogan looks to get rid of Ric Flair so he can make room for his friends!)
11/12 – Pro (Triple H battles BG James while Stars ‘n Stripes take on Harlem Heat, SUCKA!)
11/16 – Clash of the Champions XXIX (Hulkamania battles the Three Faces and a half ton of Fear!)
12/27 – Starrcade (This has a triple chance of sucking!)

1995
1/25 – Clash of the Champions XXX (Randy Savage gives out cardiac defibrillation!)
2/19 – Superbrawl V (It’s Vader Time, brother.)
3/19 – UnCeNSoReD (The show title implies that its cutting edge, but it’s not.)
5/21 – Slamboree (Ric Flair goes to great lengths to fire up Randy Savage. And no, he’s not wearing a dress.)
6/18 – Great American Bash (This was just alright – making it the best WCW PPV so far this year!)
7/16 – Bash at the Beach (Wrestling AND Baywatch at the same time! It’s all you need!)
8/4 – Collision in Korea (Only in North Korea could you mix diplomacy with wrestling.)
8/6 – Clash of the Champions XXXI (Hulk declares war on some crazy people who attack him in caves!)
9/4 – Monday Nitro (The debut episode of Nitro showcases surprise returns and PASTAMANIA!)
9/11 – Monday Nitro (As the Dungeon of Doom trips over themselves, Hogan’s team argues with one another.)
9/17 – Fall Brawl (What’s the one thing Wargames has been missing all this time? ARMY FATIGUES!)
9/18 – Monday Nitro (Randy Savage and Lex Luger get into a CONFRONTATION~!)
9/25 – Monday Nitro (The Dungeon of Doom finally bring their A-game to Nitro!)
10/2 – Monday Nitro (Three main events! Plus, Hogan loses his stache!)
10/9 – Monday Nitro (You can’t drive monster trucks into a building! Wait…)
10/16 – Monday Nitro (Will Sting disregard all reason and team up with Ric Flair? You bet he will.)
10/23 – Monday Nitro (YETI!)
10/29 – Halloween Havoc (So many swerves, you might begin to think you have chronic vertigo!)
10/30 – Monday Nitro (The Dungeon of Doom dominate Nitro!)
11/6 – Monday Nitro (So is the Giant the WCW World Champion or not?)
11/13 – Monday Nitro (Savage looks to bring Meng’s head to Hulk on a silver platter! Weird!)
11/18 – [Pro] (New Japan invades your Saturday morning!)
11/20 – Monday Nitro (Hogan vs. Sting for the first time EVER! Take that, post-Survivor Series Raw!)
11/26 – World War 3 (Sixty men! Three rings! One winner! Well, as long as you’re a top draw.)
11/27 – Monday Nitro (Free PPV rematches!)
12/4 – Monday Nitro (Luger receives a world title shot after beating Randy Savage at WW3!)
12/11 – Monday Nitro (The Horsemen get cheered, Hogan gets booed. Welcome to Charlotte.)
12/18 – Monday Nitro (Hogan gets really cranky when he’s not the center of everything.)
12/25 – Monday Nitro (Savage vs. Flair! What a Christmas present!)
12/27 – Starrcade (Flair wins the gold! Plus, New Japan battles WCW for…the World Cup of Wrestling?)

1996
1/1 – Monday Nitro (Hulk Hogan returns to the ring! Naturally, he’s getting a title shot.)
1/8 – Monday Nitro (The Mega Powers reunite to take on the Horsemen! Oh boy.)
1/15 – Monday Nitro (What a conveniently loaded card to beat Raw with in the ratings!)
1/22 – Monday Nitro (Title changes galore!)
1/23 – Clash of the Champions XXXII (Secret weapon overload!)
1/29 – Monday Nitro (Hogan jobs to a high-heel shoe!)
2/5 – Monday Nitro (The Road Warriors get their tag titles shot. See how it turns out!)
2/11 – Superbrawl VI (One good cage match, one bad cage match.)
2/12 – Monday Nitro (ARN ANDERSON WINS!)
2/19 – Monday Nitro (Booty Booty Booty Booty Booty Booty Booty Man!)
2/26 – Monday Nitro (Where’s the instructions to these handcuffs?!)
3/11 – Monday Nitro (This would have been so much cooler had the lumberjacks carried CHAINSAWS!)
3/18 – Monday Nitro (The Alliance to End Hulkamania add two more monsters to the crew!)
3/24 – UnCeNSoReD (Only in WCW could a PPV start out so good and end so poorly.)
3/25 – Monday Nitro (The Giant teases a face turn?)
4/1 – Monday Nitro (Now that the high heel shoe business is DONE, they start throwing coffee?!)
4/15 – Monday Nitro (Hey Lex, look out for that coffee! Whoops.)
4/22 – Monday Nitro (Giant reaches his boiling point with Ric Flair!)
4/29 – Monday Nitro (That mean, nasty, wart-infested Giant finds a champion who *will* job clean for him.)
5/6 – Monday Nitro (You can’t really blame Luger for not wanting to wrestle the Giant. He’s a big guy.)
5/13 – Monday Nitro (Lex Luger shows up for his title shot! FINALLY!)
5/19 – Slamboree (More midcarders than a Charlotte unemployment line.)
5/20 – Monday Nitro (What can be sweeter than 90 minutes of Nitro? Wait, don’t answer that.)
5/27 – Monday Nitro (“You know who I am, but you don’t know why I’m here.”)
6/3 – Monday Nitro (Sting stands up for WCW.)
6/10 – Monday Nitro (Somewhere Kevin Nash’s third grade English teacher is a little upset.)
6/16 – Great American Bash (You don’t jack these guys around…)
6/17 – Monday Nitro (Randy Savage gets reinstated and he goes right after Flair!)
6/24 – Monday Nitro (Hall and Nash scare people with baseball bats!)
7/1 – Monday Nitro (ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!)
7/7 – Bash at the Beach (Witness the reinvention of Hulk Hogan!)
7/8 – Monday Nitro (Sting and Randy Savage react to the end of Hulkamania.)
7/15 – Monday Nitro (When Luger has no back up, the nWo attack!)
7/22 – Monday Nitro (Where is Ric Flair? Is he joining up with the nWo?! BASELESS ACCUSATIONS~!)
7/29 – Monday Nitro (Hall and Nash mean serious business.)
8/5 – Monday Nitro (So the nWo beats up Flair’s best friend? Flair beats up Hogan’s best friend.)
8/10 – Hog Wild (The future of WCW rests on the shoulders of a GIANT!)
8/12 – Monday Nitro (The Four Horsemen make the save for Sting and Luger?!)
8/15 – Clash of the Champions XXXIII (Flair vs. Hogan! This one’s for Arn Anderson!)
8/19 – Monday Nitro (Sting & Lex have a surprise for us! Try not to get too excited though.)
8/26 – Monday Nitro (Ted DiBiase shows us how many fingers he has, but what does it all mean?)
9/2 – Monday Nitro (The Giant sells out to the nWo!)
9/9 – Monday Nitro (Now Sting joins the nWo? WHAAAAT!)
9/15 – Fall Brawl (WCW pays for their sins in Wargames.)
9/16 – Monday Nitro (1+2+3=Syxx!)
9/23 – Monday Nitro (While WCW’s away, the nWo will play.)
9/30 – Monday Nitro (‘Nasty Nick’ makes his TV debut long before his father thought he knew best.)
10/7 – Monday Nitro (If the Giant just took your title belt, you’d just let him have it too.)
10/14 – Monday Nitro (Elizabeth says some stuff and Randy gets all upset. Gripping television.)
10/21 – Monday Nitro (Black leather = sad?)
10/27 – Halloween Havoc (The nWo keeps on rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. Roddy Piper comes to change all that.)
10/28 – Monday Nitro (Hogan comes out and talks some garbage!)
11/4 – Monday Nitro (Hogan comes out and talks some more garbage!)
11/11 – Monday Nitro (Roddy Piper says, “I’M YOUR MAN!”)
11/18 – Monday Nitro (Eric Bischoff makes the murky world of WCW just a little bit clearer.)
11/24 – World War 3 (What do you mean exactly when you say that the Giant can *palm* Rey Mysterio?)
11/25 – Monday Nitro (Let the U.S. title tournament begin! Can’t we get some brackets here?)

The Rise & Fall of WCW – Disc One (Only WWE could condense a half century of history into 90 minutes.)
The Rise & Fall of WCW – Disc Two (They did have some awesome matches…)
The Rise & Fall of WCW – Disc Three (…but then again, they also had matches that weren’t so awesome.)

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.

  1. Robbie
    April 25, 2008 at 1:42 am | #1

    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.

  2. James
    June 6, 2008 at 6:57 pm | #2

    Cool stuff…even some TV reviews you don’t normally see from certain other reviewers. And to the above poster, I liked WCW for its good points even while groaning at the bits that made me impatient. (it was only the Russo era that sent me over the point of no return, kind of like how 2002-date WWE has made me a mostly ex-current wrestling fan) Back in the day, I was a WRESTLING fan, not a WWF/WCW/etc. etc. fan.

  3. Nick Marsh
    August 24, 2008 at 2:25 pm | #3

    I have just spent the whole afternoon reading your wonderful, detailed reviews of the first wrestling matches & cards that I ever watched. I am going to be checking back often for updates, but I wanted you to know just how much I appreciate your work. It’s really brilliant, thank you so much.

  4. Nate
    August 24, 2008 at 4:14 pm | #4

    I wasn’t around back when some of this stuff happened, and I really felt like I missed out. But being able to go back and read about these WWF/WCW/ECW shows of yesteryear, it’s really cool. This is the best review site ever. And I really mean it dude. Please keep the reviews coming!

  5. Jeremy
    March 3, 2009 at 11:48 pm | #5

    Do you know where I can get a copy of Starrcade 1984?

    • mark
      September 28, 2009 at 9:09 am | #6

      Bootlegs and ebay. I don’t recommend ebay though.

  6. mikemcneil
    August 2, 2009 at 10:20 pm | #7

    Love the site, man. Keep up the good work.

  7. LeeKelsall
    August 10, 2009 at 5:42 am | #8

    Hey man, just stumbled onto your website. Fantastic, great reviews. I’ll be checking back often. Great to read new reviews of the old stuff. Keep up the good work.

  8. wcwrules4lyf
    August 10, 2009 at 9:16 am | #9

    Thanks for the good word, Lee! I appreciate everybody who reads my reviews.

  9. JHM
    August 24, 2009 at 6:31 am | #10

    Great stuff, hope you continue with reviewing more Nitro’s.

  10. Boomhaueruk
    September 9, 2009 at 5:39 am | #11

    Any chance you’ll start on 1997?
    Would dearly love to see your take on the mind blowingly awful experiment that was NWO Souled Out.

    • wcwrules4lyf
      September 9, 2009 at 9:13 am | #12

      Absolutely. I’ll start with 1997 as soon as I finish 1996. Can’t wait!

      • Boomhaueruk
        September 16, 2009 at 7:34 am | #13

        Seriously, I’ve just watched NWO Souled Out. I wouldn’t be so eager. :O)

        Great site, by the way. Having your summaries as I watched each PPV (I’ve been watching every WCW PPV from 1991 to 2000 in sequence) has really added to the enjoyment.

  11. Peng
    October 15, 2009 at 1:25 pm | #14

    I’ve enjoyed really much reading your WCW and WWF reviews of the year 1996. It have been fun to compare your opinions to mine because I’ve also been reviewing 1996 pay-per-views :) I found your site when I was watching Uncensored 1996. I already finished 1996 (because I only watched pay-per-views) and found also time to start 1997 with Royal Rumble and the legendary Souled Out :D Though sometimes our opinions differ pretty much, reading your reviews is always a delight. I’m waiting more to come and hoping you’ll also continue to 1997!

    Oh, I almost forgot: I’m Finnish so I guess it would be a waste of time to give a link to my reviews :D Being Finnish is also a reason why my English sucks.

  12. Matt
    October 15, 2009 at 8:53 pm | #15

    You’re awesome, Peng.

    Send me a link anyways. I can run your site through a Finnish translator. I would love to read your stuff.

    • Peng
      October 20, 2009 at 1:48 pm | #16

      Thanks :D I sent e-mail to your gmail-address :P

  13. Matt
    November 2, 2009 at 8:21 am | #17

    Respect to you for putting all the work into reviewing these shows,Matt.You have done a great job.

  14. Matt
    December 10, 2009 at 1:20 pm | #18

    For anyone who is interested,all these WCW PPV’s(and many others) can be bought from http://www.ioffer.com.The best seller is called ‘Heatermania’ and he does boxsets with artwork.I have bought PPV’s of the years 1989,1990,1992,etc and am very happy with them.The picture and sound quality is between 7-9/10 and most of the shows are the live PPV and NOT the edited 2 hour vhs copy.
    Just thought i would let you wrestling fans know.

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