Bash at the Beach (1996)

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Bash at the Beach 1996 was the third Bash at the Beach event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 21st July 1996

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Scott Hall defending his WCW Heaviweight Championship against Sting. It's unknown if this match will even happen, Sting has been out of action since Uncensored where NWO led their big ambush. NWO have proclaimed that Sting hasn't showed up in all of these months because he's part of New World Order, he just doesn't wanna admit it yet, Ric Flair and Arn Anderson have started to believe but Lex Luger and the rest of the roster refuse to believe it, Hall challenged Sting to a title match tonight as he's sure he won't show up because Sting is NWO.

Ric Flair is convinced that everything points to Sting being NWO, he told Lex Luger that Sting was the WWF champion and decided to go to the little leagues in 1989 for 0 reason, Sting was the first invader sent by Vince Mcmahon to destroy WCW, he overshadows everyone's popularity including Flair and Luger's. Luger was tired of these accusations so he challenged Flair to a match

Diamond Dallas Page was given an NWO shirt and he wore it only to diamond cutter Scott Hall right after in a swerve, he got a WCW Heaviweight title shot against them but failed to win, he decided to team up with former rival Eddie Guerrero to face Kevin Nash and HHH tonight for the titles

At Uncensored, Hogan leg dropped Randy Savage multiple times to betray WCW and join New World Order, Savage made his return and immediatly challenged Hogan. Hogan told Savage that the best course of action would be for him to join NWO, the WCW audience turns on every single old timer so he should join them to destroy WCW itself, Savage refused saying WCW gave him the respect he didn't get in the other company so even if the audience turns on him, he will never turn on WCW

La Parka won a battle royal to become NO1 contender to the Cruiserweight Championship. Jushin Liger and Psicosis had a tag match against Public Enemy where if they won, Liger would be included in the CW title match, after Jericho took Psicosis and gave Liger the decision of whether he wins that match or he saves Psicosis from injury, Liger chose the first as he won the match and tried to save Psicosis afterwards but it was too late as Jericho had already injured him, this got Liger big heat as he has been called a traitor to his own protege

## Results

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## Details

* Ric Flair's theme hits but no one shows up, Arn shows up with a black eye, he says Flair isn't here because Sting attacked them backstage and he threw Flair right onto the window of a car. He says that because of Luger's stupidity, the key to possibly beating NWO is now injured. Arn even shows footage and it's clearly Sting, Luger doesn't wanna believe it but Arn challenges him
* Sting doesn't show up for the main event as Scott Hall says he would never betray NWO and he prefers to play a facade instead of facing them. But he is here to defend this championship so he challenges anyone in the back, out comes The Giant
* As teased by WWF, X-Pac debuts and hits multiple chairshots on The Giant to give Hall the win, Pac is on WCW and NWO