Superbrawl V

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Superbrawl 5 was the fifth Superbrawl event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 12th February 1995

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Randy Savage defending his WCW Heaviweight Championship against The Giant. At Starrcade, Savage became WCW Heaviweight champion, Four Horsemen were pissed at that as Ric Flair was the only one in the 4HM that wasn't champion, he wanted another title shot but The Giant came out as the newest Dungeon of Doom leader and challenged Flair, he managed to defeat him. Throught the weeks, DoD kept beating up Savage and no one would show up for his aid

Due to an interpromotional deal with WCW and NJPW, IWGP Heaviweight champion Shinya Hashimoto defended his title at Starrcade against The Great Muta. Brian Pillman was looking for a new challenger for his US title and Hashimoto announced that he had 1 more match on his WCW contract and challenged Pillman. Pillman said he knew how the NJPW rules worked as it was gonna have a 30 minute time limit so Pillman didn't even need to win, he just needed to survive

The Great Muta and Jushin Liger have a long history with each other, it was the first rivalry Liger had when he came into WCW in 1990 which took place throught the year and ended with Muta beating Liger in a loser leaves WCW. In 1993, Liger came back as a heel as he beat up CW champion Ricky Steamboat and The Great Muta, he didn't feel like heaviweights could train to become cruiserweights and take possession of their division, this culminated at Starrcade 1993 with The Great Muta defeating Jushin Liger to become CW champion for the first time. One year later, Liger is now CW champion and Muta has challenged him to one last match, not only for the title but also the loser will have to take off their mask. These 2 men now respect each other a lot but they wanna settle who is the best

Paul Roma and Arn Anderson defeated Flying Beauty at Starrcade to win the tag titles, Lex Luger made his shocking WCW return afterwards as Arn announced that Luger was tag champion, not Roma and they attacked him and kicked him out of Four Horsemen. Flying Beauty will get their rematch tonight

Meng made his debut at Starrcade 1992 in a showcase match against The Barbarian where the winner would get a WCW contract, Meng completely destroyed Barbarian and got himself a contract. At Starrcade 1994, Meng was involved in a fatal 4 way NO1 contendership match for the WCW Heaviweight Championship and The Barbarian made his debut attacking him and preventing him from winning the match. The Barbarian announced that he had officially been signed to WCW and wanted to take revenge on Meng for destroying almost 2 years of his career

Fit Finlay made his debut and quickly started a feud against Dancing Freaks as he defeated Buff Bagwell, continued to beat him up, Alex Wright tried to save him but also got beat up, they challenged them tonight in a handicap match to finally make Finlay lose a match

## Results

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## Details

* Four Horsemen help Pillman defeat Hashimoto in 19:21
* Wright and Bagwell agree to disband their team as they're not having any success together, Finlay beats them up again and says that cruiserweights are a disgrace to this company
* Dungeon of Doom come out and offer Barbarian to join DoD but Barbarian doesn't answer right away
* Muta takes off his mask and announces himself as Keiji Mutoh, he beats up Liger causing Liger to turn face and Muta to turn heel
* Dungeon of Doom beat up Savage ending the match in a DQ, Hulk Hogan returns and gets all of DoD out of there. Savage and Hogan shake hands for the first time ever