Great American Bash (1991)

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Great American Bash 1991 was the third Great American Bash event which took place on 7th July 1991

## Background

The main match heading into the show is a War Games match between Sting's Crew which consists of Lex Luger, Barry Windham, Sting and Dusty Rhodes vs Four Horsemen which consists of Ric Flair, Sid Vicious, Larry Zbyszko and Arn Anderson. There are various feuds within this match, the main one is Sting vs Four Horsemen, at Saturday Night 100 after winning the tag titles with Ric Flair, Sting was getting tired of Flair's constant cheating so he scorpion death dropped him leaving Four Horsemen. At Great American Bash 1990, Barry Windham was kicked out of Four Horsemen and replaced by Arn Anderson and he's had a grudge with them ever since making it his goal to end the stable. At Superbrawl 1, Ric Flair was about to face Dustin Rhodes when his dad Dusty Rhodes debuted on WCW and took the match instead, Flair defeated him and afterwards Dusty was forced to watch by The Enforcers as Sid Vicious joined Four Horsemen and put a chair through Dustin's leg, this was the moment Sting, Lex Luger and Barry Windham joined forces and attacked Four Horsemen causing this match to be set.

At Starrcade, Masa Saito introduced the New Japan Legends: Masahiro Chono, Hiroshi Hase, The Great Muta and Kensuke Sasaki as part of the NJPW-WCW deal but they immediatly attacked Saito turning heel, the Starrcade Countdown hit and Jushin Liger debuted in WCW having a match against Muta for the IWGP Junior Championship, since then New Japan Legends have targeted Liger, Liger defeated Kensuke Sasaki at Wrestlewar 1991 and at Superbrawl 1 he defeated The Great Muta to win the TV Championship, tonight he faces Masahiro Chono for the TV Championship.

Ricky Steamboat says he knows greatness when he sees it so he wants to face the rookie Cactus Jack in a match

Fabulous Freebirds won a tag team championship NO1 Contenders match and are facing Steiner Brothers tonight, at Starrcade Freebirds cashed in on Steiner Brothers to win the tag titles, since then the titles were vacated and Steiner Brothers won it again

At Saturday Night 100, Stunning Austin and Rick Rude led an ambush on United States champion Vader and he was injured and hasn't made an apearence since, Rick Rude and Austin told Ted Turner that the US title should be vacated due to Vader's disappearence, Ted Turner says he'll make a formal announcment about that tonight

## Details

* Ted Turner says that Vader hasn't competed in a while, so the United States Championship is being forfeited to Rick Rude when out comes Vader returning from injury who has an improptu match against Rick Rude
* It's revealed that Tommy Rich and Dick Slater have been attacked backstage before the CITL tag team match, Terry Taylor and Brian Pillman make their return and replace them
* When it's only Dusty Rhodes and Barry Windham vs The Enforcers in the match, Windham climbs up the cage but The Enforcers start pushing the cell, Windham falls down the cage through the table and is disqualified because people can't leave the cage, Sid Vicious enters the match and it's a 1 on 3 massacre on Dusty Rhodes
* Lex Luger pins Ric Flair to get the win for his team
* Four Horsemen leave Flair in the ring after the match possibly signaling the end of Four Horsemen