Superbrawl III

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Superbrawl 3 was the third Superbrawl event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 21st February 1993

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Sting defending his WCW Heaviweight Championship against Barry Windham. Sting finally got to the top of WCW after 4 grueling years at Starrcade 1992 but not without a few hiccups on his way, Sting and Windham were the final 2 in the battlebowl battle royal to determine who would face Vader in the main event for the WCW Heaviweight Championship, Sting ended up winning but after the match Windham attacked Sting turning heel, even with this injury Sting overcame the odds and became champion in the main event. Windham stepped up as Sting's first challenge saying he has had the same career trajectory as Sting: was in the four horsemen, left them and then did pretty much nothing the next couple of years. The difference was that the fans always supported Sting while no one had Windham's back, Windham also mentions that he hasn't disappointed his fans because while Sting has had 5 title shots and only won once since WCW's inception, tonight will only be Windham's second shot at the title and he promises he will not lose. Windham has tried to reform the Four Horsemen with Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko but Arn refused attacking him. They had a contract signing last night that just ended with a handshake as even with so much in the line, these 2 have respect for each other

Vader and Rick Rude will fight each other yet again here tonight. Their story goes all the way back to early 1991 when Rick Rude debuted against Vader and teamed up with Stunning Steve Austin to take him down but failed, since then Rude and Austin formed Dangerous Alliance with The Enforcers, Vader usurped the position as the leader and managed to get everyone but Rick Rude championships which pissed Rude off to the point where he turned on his groupmates and Vader, he got a WCW Heaviweight Championship match at Halloween Havoc 1992 in the first ever last man standing match but was completely broken by Vader. Tonight is a different story as after Vader lost the WCW Heaviweight Championship to Sting at Starrcade 1992, Dusty Rhodes said Vader did not have a rematch clause because he lost to an INJURED Sting. Vader was pissed and challenged Dusty and Dusty gave him the match IF he could defeat 3 of his men, the men he picked were Road Warriors and Rick Rude who beat Vader in a handicap match. Over the following weeks, Rude attacked Vader with chairshots causing a double turn. Tonight they face each other in a different dynamic as Vader is a babyface while Rude is a heel.

Ricky Steamboat won the cruiserweight title at Great American Bash 1992, this caused some controversy as Steamboat was a former heaviweight who turned into a cruiserweight by training. At Halloween Havoc, he was challenged by also former heaviweight turned cruiserweight The Great Muta whom he defeated. After the match, a bunch of cruiserweights attacked them both, they claimed they were tired of former heaviweights stealing their division and stealing their spotlight. Steamboat and Muta decided to challenge every CW that wants to face them in a handicap elimination match, Brad Armstrong,Bobby Eaton,Dick Slater,Eddie Gilbert,Johnny B.Badd,Shane Douglas and Tom Zenk stepped up to the challenge

At Starrcade 1992, in the battlebowl tag team match Sasaki introduced his tag team partner Davey Boy Smith, the former British Bulldog debuting at WCW, they won the tag match but in the battle royal as soon as the bell rang, Smith immediatly eliminated Sasaki with a clothsline. Smith says he has no hard feelings towards Sasaki but he just wants to do more than be Sasaki's ally in WCW, Sasaki proceeded to spit on his face which led to this match. Smith managed to win the TV Championship from Meng yesterday so this match turned into a title match

Meng debuted at Starrcade 1992 in the showcase match defeating The Barbarian and gaining a WCW contract and the vacant TV Championship, he has dominated since then which caused US Champion Dr.Death to challenge him to a champion vs champion match. Yesterday, Meng lost the TV title to Davey Boy Smith and Dr.Death said that now there's only gonna be 1 champion in the champ vs champ match but Meng is infuriated for tonight's match

Hollywood Blondes are gonna defend their tag titles against 3 other teams, The Enforcers, Hollywood Blondes and Terry Taylor and a partner of his choice as Taylor was Pillman's former tag team partner and is pissed that he replaced him.

## Results

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## Details

* Someone attacked Terry Taylor backstage so he was replaced in the match by the debuting Harlem Heat, Booker T and Stevie Ray
* Road Warriors come out after Vader's match and take him out
* Shane Douglas, Tom Zenk and Johnny B.Badd form a stable and announce they have a higher up within them, a leader
* After the main event, Windham picked up a chair to attack Sting but The Enforcers run to the ring to stop him. Suddenly, Zbyszko turns around and DDT's Arn ending The Enforcers as Windham starts chairshotting Sting. Windham and Zbyszko celebrate

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