Bash at the Beach (1997)

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Bash at the Beach 1997 was the fourth Bash at the Beach event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 12th July 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Hollywood Hogan defending the WCW Heaviweight Championship against Randy Savage. Arn Anderson introduced The Resistance as a stable to take down New World Order, at Great American Bash Randy Savage, Steiner Brothers and Los Guerreros defeated New World Order in a war games match for The Resistance to win world title shots for every single member. Since Savage won a 7 men elimination between the members of The Resistance, he would be the first to challenge for Hogan's world title. Hogan has taunted Savage since starting the NWO saying Savage is an old WWF outcast and he would be a perfect fit for NWO as the crowd will turn on him soon but Savage has refused to betray the place that gave him a job and respected him

At Nitro 159, Benoit and Regal defeated Konnan and Juventud Guerrera to become NO1 contenders to the tag titles, after the match American Males in a suit and Perry Saturn beat up Benoit and Regal as they joined Konnan. Konnan invited Four Horsemen into the negotiating room and had one of the best WCW segments ever as they were immediatly beaten up by Saturn, Juventud and Hired Guns(former American Males) and were all put on their knees as Konnan demanded another NO1 contendership match, leader of 4HM DDP initially refused but Konnan said everybody on WCW would have to learn that no one messes with The Mob and beat up DDP to the point where he was completely bleeding from his face, DDP accepted another match. NWO member Kevin Nash decided to add a new stipulation to the match, a steel cage match but 2 wrestlers would fight on each side, the ring, the left and right side and the top of the cage, the winners are the ones that get the most wins

At Great American Bash, Konnan defeated HHH to win the United States Championship after help from Perry Saturn. HHH was pissed and straight up threatened to walk out of WCW if this The Mob group became a big thing, his mentor Hollywood Hogan didn't want that so he gave him a match against the undefeated Saturn so he could get his revenge

Curt Hennig debuted on WCW as he immediatly challenged WCW Heaviweight champion Ric Flair, at Uncensored Hennig defeated Flair to win the title after he joined New World Order and ganged up on Flair. A few months later after NWO's loss to The Resistance in war games, NWO turned on Hennig and immediatly made a heaviweight title match as Hogan defeated Hennig. No one believed that Hennig wanted to destroy NWO as they felt like this was just a coup by part of NWO, make Hennig trustworthy to the WCW roster just so he could betray them again so Hennig was left with no one, Ric Flair was particularly harsh on him because him and Hogan injured David Flair, Hennig just wanted to prove that he wanted to destroy NWO like everyone else but Flair isn't buying it wanting to prove that Hennig is still a piece of shit

Malenko lost the CW championship at Hog Wild 1996 to the debuting Rey Misterio Jr. and has been on a downward spiral since then as his role of "king of the cruiserweights" has massively fallen down, Ultimo Dragon is now champion and Rey won a NO1 contendership match to face Dragon tonight, Malenko kept trying to get in the match by beating up Rey but Dragon kept refusing. After Dragon and Rey defeated The Outsiders in a tag team match, Kevin Nash accepted Malenko to be added in the match as they were pissed at Rey and Dragon

## Results

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## Details

* Jake Roberts and Roddy Piper were scheduled to be in the CITL tag team match but Roberts got drunk before the match and since it was his 3rd offense, he was fired from WCW. Piper came out alone saying he had no idea where Roberts was, Eric Bischoff says he found a replacement as it would be HIM. Piper refused to team up with Bischoff so he choked him out and said they forfeited the match, the actual replacements were Jushin Liger and The Great Muta
* Rey tries to give a hand to Malenko after the match which he accepts
* Hennig doesn't wanna beat up Flair too hard as he wants to prove he's a good guy but Flair keeps getting him heated so Hennig starts getting more agressive with him, Flair goes to get a chair and tries to beat up Hennig with it who ducks, Hennig is pissed at what Flair is doing so he tackles him to the ground, gets the chair and hits it multiple times on Flair ending the match in a DQ, he says he's sorry as the crowd boos him
* DDP vs Konnan is happening in the ring. Chris Benoit vs Juventud is happening on top of the cage, Goldberg vs Riggs is happening on the stage side and Regal vs Bagwell is happening on the barricade side. This is the first variation of the hell in a cell match as it's a steel cage with a roof but it isn't as big as WWF had it at Summerslam when they innovated the match
* Goldberg vs Riggs is the first fall as Goldberg quickly ends it with a spear to go 1-0. Benoit ends it next making Juvi tap out to a crossface making it 2-0. Konnan manages to defeat DDP in the ring to make it 2-1. Bagwell hits his finisher on Regal and is about to pin him when Benoit jumps from the top of the cage with an elbow drop to stop Bagwell's pin, Regal rolls Bagwell up to go 3-1
* After the match, Perry Saturn shows up, Goldberg tries to spear him but Saturn reverses it into a german suplex
* In the main event, Sting is watching from the rafters but doesn't do anything