Halloween Havoc (1989)

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Halloween Havoc 1989 was the first Halloween Havoc event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 29th October 1989

## Background

The main match heading into the show is a War Games Match between Four Horsemen vs Ricky Steamboat, Junkyard Dog, Terry Funk and a mystery partner. Four Horsemen were the sole focus of WCW on the first 2 months with Ric Flair on top as WCW Heaviweight Champion and them main eventing every show, at Great American Bash the tide shifted as former WWF Champion Ricky Steamboat made his shocking debut taking out Four Horsemen, Steamboat tried to get a WCW Heaviweight title shot but failed in the form of a gauntlet. He decided that if he was unable to get a championship match, then he'd just take out all of Four Horsemen in a war of a match, he started revealing his teammates as former WWF Champion Junkyard Dog debuted at Saturday Night 21, former face of WWWF and WWWF Champion Terry Funk debuted at Saturday Night 24 and Steamboat says his last teammate is an ultimate friend of Sting but he'll only be revealed tonight although it's obvious who it is.

Lex Luger has been resilient about winning a championship, even going as far as introducing a new championship which he owned, the TV Championship at Saturday Night 13 but 5 minutes later he'd lose the championship in an open challenge against Harley Race who vacated it on the spot, Luger was unable to regain his championship until Saturday Night 21 where he finally defeated TV Champion Barry Windham, Luger went missing from shows after that, Ted Turner found him on vacation and since he wasn't defending the title weekly, he punished him by putting him in a 6 Men Package for the title tonight.

Shane Douglas and Johnny Ace were a tag team long before WCW was born, but at WCW's first ever PPV Shane Douglas randomly decided to have Brian Pillman as his teammate as they won the WCW Tag Team Championships and Johnny Ace wasn't happy but was forced to cooperate, Pillman kept taunting him which led to a match between the two at Great American Bash, meanwhile Shane Douglas had to defend the tag titles on the same show so he decided to get a NEW teammate, Ranger Ross as they lost the tag titles to Four Horsemen. Brian Pillman and Johnny Ace called out Douglas on his bullshittery of changing teammates every day and turned on him, Ranger Ross doesn't want any part in this as he feels this is useless for him to get involved in, tonight Brian Pillman will face Shane Douglas

Eddie Gilbert defeated US Champion The Great Muta in a singles match at Saturday Night 18 so he got a championship match tonight

At Great American Bash, there was a tag team battle royal to determine the NO1 Contenders to the tag team championships, Road Warriors won after Sid Vicious eliminated his own tag team partner, Dan Spivey because he thought he could do this on his own. Teddy Long has joined Skyscrapers after this trying to get them to cooperate and stop their egos from clashing as he believes they're a team that could be at the top of the division, Road Warriors cost Skyscrapers a tag team championship match and Teddy Long decided to test Skyscrapers' teamwork tonight as they face the men they couldn't beat at Great American Bash.

Doom and Midnight Express will face off in a match just to get momentum rolling for any of the teams.

## Results

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## Details

* After the opening match, Ranger Ross attacked Brian Pillman joining Shane Douglas and turning heel while Johnny Ace turned face by saving Brian Pillman
* Stan Hansen made his debut on WCW after the TV Championship Match and announced that at Starrcade he will be facing Lex Luger
* To no surprise, Ricky Steamboat's last teammate is former WWF Champion Warrior
* Warrior pinned Flair to get the win for his team
* The War Games match was rated 5 stars, it was the first ever 5 stars in history since WWF rebooted