Fall Brawl (1997)

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Fall Brawl 1997 was the fifth Fall Brawl event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 20th September 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Hollywood Hogan defending his WCW Heaviweight Championship against Ultimo Dragon. 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, Dragon is the fifth man getting the title shots, so far Hogan has defeated Randy Savage, Rick Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and Chavo Guerrero(by DQ). Dragon and NWO have a long story as before The Resistance formed, NWO targeted Dragon after his win against WCW Heaviweight champion Scott Hall in late 1996, Arn Anderson is starting to get worried as only 3 men are left to take the title from NWO's hands

Curt Hennig defeated The Mob's leader Konnan in an episode of Nitro to become United States champion, Konnan will get his rematch tonight

The Outsiders defeated HHH and Syxx to become NO1 contenders to the WCW Tag Team titles as they face members of The Resistance Steiner Brothers for the titles here tonight

Ever since Savage's loss against Hogan he has started to use cheap ways to get wins even with The Resistance members, he tried helping Eddie win a NO1 contendership match to the Cruiserweight Championship by beating up everyone else with a ladder but Eddie argued with him and told him to get out, Eddie and Savage's tensions have been rising as of late and came to a blowup as Savage beat up Hogan during Hogan's defense against Chavo Guerrero ending the match in a DQ, Eddie was pissed that Savage ruined his nephew's chances of winning and brawled with him, they have agreed to beat each other up tonight

Rey Misterio Jr has tried to bring back his friend Dean Malenko to his side, Malenko finally accepted to join forces with him, Rey felt like what Malenko needed was extreme matches just like ECW to get back his edge, they had a match against Public Enemy but Malenko walked out feeling like he couldn't do this match, the week afterwards he apologized to Rey and challenged Public Enemy to another match which they won at Road Wild. Rey felt like he finally brought back Malenko to his good days so he challenged him tonight because he wants Malenko to be able to defeat him clean

The Mob's first big segment and showcase of strength was destroying Four Horsemen in their negotiating room leaving DDP completely bleeding from the face, this showed that no one should mess with The Mob which ended up with them negotiating with New World Order as both groups would respect each other and not mess with each other's plans, Four Horsemen still didn't have respect for The Mob and DDP challenged their leader Konnan to a match but since Konnan was having a US title rematch, he gave DDP the newest member of The Mob: Lex Luger

## Results

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## Details

* Ric Flair interfered in the US title match and started chopping Hennig so Konnan managed to get his title back
* Eddie shakes hands with Savage and they embrace
* Four Horsemen and The Mob come out during DDP vs Luger which becomes a mess and DDP manages to diamond cutter Luger to win
* Hogan says "only 2 to go, Arn"