WAR 2

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WAR 2 was the second WAR event produced by World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling which took place on 31st December 1995

## Background

WCW's first year was so incredible and groundbreaking that Vince Mcmahon saw money to be made off of it, he approached Ted Turner for a deal to make a co-show which would bring huge amounts of money to both companies as a co-promotional show like this hasn't been seen since Vince started taking down NWA, Ted Turner agreed to this and WAR was launched.

At Starrcade 1994, new owner of WCW Eric Bischoff called out Vince Mcmahon on the fact that he was trying to put all the good things on Smackdown so he could cancel RAW and not go up against Nitro, he called Vince a pussy and announced that WAR 2 would be taking place in the end of 1995. While Vince respected Ted Turner as an owner, he had the completely opposite stance on Eric Bischoff as he wasn't even aware that Eric would call him out publicly and decided to cancel Smackdown so he could focus on competing against Nitro

As of 2001, after WCW shut down, we learned about the contract details of WAR, they are as it follows:

1. There can't be an uneven number of matches
2. Champions will fight each other unless there's some big dream match of champion vs non-champion
3. Shows always have to end in a tie to make sure one company doesn't look better than the other, this is why the show always has to have an even number of matches
4. There can be shots thrown by both companies during shows to hype up WAR
5. However, there can't be any specific shots to wrestlers, only to the owners of WWF(Vince Mcmahon) and WCW(Ted Turner) (This rule was crossed out for this show)
6. This show is not canon to the programming seen on ~~WCW Saturday Night~~ WCW Monday Nitro and ~~WWF Superstars of Wrestling~~ WWF Monday Night RAW
7. This is an every 5 years deal, so this event will only take place in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and so on
8. This contract can only be cancelled during the 4 years after the show happened, the same year that the show will take place there cannot be a cancellation anymore

The main match heading into the show is obviously WWF Champion Mr.Perfect vs WCW Heaviweight Champion Sting. Sting recently won the WCW Heaviweight title while Mr.Perfect has held it since Summerslam 1995, both men met a couple of times during Sting's stint on WWF but since he's returned, Sting seems to have a darker personality

Intercontinental Champion Diesel will face United States Champion Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett won the US title 5 days after Starrcade in a house show, this is interesting as Diesel won the IC championship off of Jarrett at In Your House 19 and Jarrett left WWF because of that and joined WCW a couple of weeks later so there's already animosity between the 2

The face of WWF Bret Hart will fight the face of WCW Ric Flair, both men have had the most amazing matches in both WCW and WWF and while Flair was in WWF he led Bret Hart on the Four Horsemen, they haven't met since Wrestlemania 10 where Bret Hart won the Four Horsemen fatal 4 way, there is a twist to this match as while Bret vs Flair has already happened, a heel Bret vs a babyface Flair is the first time

Shawn Michaels vs Randy Savage was a huge dream match that never happened as when Shawn went to singles action in 1992 and started becoming really popular, they were always on different brands and Savage left for WCW before the brand split ended, both men have very similar styles and are great on trashing their talent on the mic

Since Shawn Michaels is in another match, he can't team up with Hunter in the WWF Tag Team Champions vs WCW Tag Team Champions so it was scheduled that Camp Cornette's Razor Ramon and Yokozuna will face WCW Tag Team Champions Konnan and Juventud Guerrera

Another huge dream match is Owen Hart vs Eddie Guerrero who also have very similar styles and this is bound to be an amazing wrestling match

Million Dollar Corporation's King Kong Bundy and Kama will face off against Barry Windham and a partner of his choice, it's very obvious who Windham's partner is gonna be considering who is in this match

With the whole CW vs HW debacle on WCW, Liger decided to have a match against the 2 biggest heaviweights in WWF Bradshaw and Ahmed Johnson, Liger will team up with The Great Muta

There will be a huge wargames match but with Survivor Series elimination rules as it'll be Undertaker, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Goldust and Sycho Sid taking on Steiner Brothers, Lex Luger and Arn Anderson

Lastly, we have a 30 men battle royal pitting 15 WCW wrestlers against 15 WWF wrestlers including mostly jobbers on the WWF side and tag team guys but the WCW side is way more stacked with people like Meng, Booker T, Steven Regal and Diamond Dallas Page

## Results

Other participants: Squire Dave Taylor, Lord Steven Regal, Bobby Eaton, Dean Malenko, Diamond Dallas Page, Fit Finlay, Avalanche, Chris Benoit, Riggs, Buff Bagwell, Kensuke Sasaki, Stevie Ray, Booker T(WCW), Bob Holly, Dr.Isaac Yankem, Sensei Hakushi, Mabel, Mo, Savio Vega, Skip, Zip, Tatanka, Aldo Montoya, Bart Gunn, Billy Gunn, Mosh, Thrasher and Duke Droese(WWF)

## WWF Screwjob

In the main event, Sting was scheduled to defeat Mr.Perfect so the show could end in a 5-5 draw and the show would end with a huge brawl between everyone just like WAR 1 ended. During the main event, there were 2 refs, WWF ref Earl Hebner and WCW ref Nick Patrick, Mr.Perfect hit his perfectplex and Earl suddenly counted the pin fast as hell and told them to ring the bell, Earl immediatly got out of there, Perfect's theme started but quickly stopped as production realized this wasn't part of the plans and were told to cut it off. Sting was just disappointed in the ring and Perfect leaves the ring also pissed off as he pushes off a few WWF security who were trying to get him out of there

Backstage, as soon as Eric Bischoff saw this he spit on Vince Mcmahon who was standing right next to him and security had to stop a brawl from insuing as Bischoff called out Vince on his bullshit and cancelled the WAR deal immediatly.

Vince had this plan because he saw WWF was starting to lose heavily against WCW and figured controversy would draw ratings to them especially if they won the WAR PPV at 6-4, he planned this whole thing with Earl Hebner, Pat Patterson, the WWF ringkeeper, Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler and Shawn Michaels.

This event and moment is known as the true start of the Monday Night Wars, while WWF and WCW were in head to head direct competition, they still had these copromotional shows every 5 years showing that they could still work in business together, after this the animosity was too high and both companies were trying to completely put the other out of business and sign as many of their talent as they could.

While Vince thought the WWF screwjob would be the saving grace of WWF, it immensively backfired and almost killed the company. Multiple people saw it as a huge disrespect that not only this happened but no one was even informed of it, not even the WWF champion Mr.Perfect who could've legitimatly been killed by the heated WCW audience and its roster. During Wrestlemania 12 week, around 20 people left WWF in its biggest roster regression ever, Nitro 100 would happen which effectively began the New World Order angle and WCW started crushing RAW for the next 2 years

## Details

* Barry Windham's partner is the former IRS and his former US Express partner Mike Rotundo
* During the wargames match there were a lot of callbacks, Steiner Brothers stared down their former leader Sid and beat him up. Arn looked at Goldust and asked if that was Dusty's son as he laughed asking what the hell happened to him
* Jeff Jarrett comes out and says that since everyone has seen Diesel vs Jarrett already, Jarrett will be replaced with The Giant
* The battle royal is won for WCW as Meng eliminates Yankem, Disco was still in the match and tried to celebrate with Meng but Meng eliminated him as well, beat him up and speared him through the barricade

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