Spring Stampede (1994)

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Spring Stampede 1994 was the first Spring Stampede event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 17th April 1994

## Background

The main match heading into the show is a War Games match between Hulk Hogan, The Butcher, Dustin Rhodes and Stunning Austin vs Meng, Avalanche, Sid Justice and Kevin Sullivan. At Superbrawl IV, Hogan was defending his WCW Heaviweight Championship against Meng when Kevin Sullivan and the debuting Avalanche distracted him, Sid Justice(who hadn't been in WCW since Starrcade 1991) proceeded to big boot Hogan and end the match in a DQ as the 4 men former Dungeon of Doom. The former Brutus Beefcake now named The Butcher would make his debut for WCW as he allied himself with Hogan, Austin proclaimed he wanted the world title and DoD tried to make him join them but Austin responded with a beatdown, Dustin Rhodes was destroyed by Meng in a singles match and Meng was gonna proceed to attack him when Hogan made the save. For this reason, all these men joined forces and challenged Dungeon of Doom to a War Games match

New owner of WCW Eric Bischoff wanted to spice up the tag team division as there were only 3 credible teams in the division: Harlem Heat, Nasty Boys and Road Warriors. He announced a tournament with random picked people teaming up with each other hoping it would create some good tag teams off of it, the winners would get a tag team title shot. It was decided that 4 teams off of that tournament would face each other tonight in a fatal 4 way, Alex Wright and Buff Bagwell vs Steven Regal and Bobby Eaton vs Yuji Nagata and Masahiro Chono vs Arn Anderson and Paul Roma

Larry Zbyszko and The Great Muta were huge AJPW rivals in the 80's, Zbyszko debuted at Wrestlewar 1990 in a match against Muta losing in the process, they had another match at Capital Combat which Muta yet again won. Muta is now cruiserweight champion and challenged any man to step up to him, Zbyszko stepped up as his challenger

When Muta challenged anyone for the title, Brad Armstrong and Stan Lane were the first men to respond but they ended up beating each other so Muta chose Zbyszko instead, both men have blamed each other for not having titles and will fight tonight

In an episode of Saturday Night, Jushin Liger defeated Avalanche and Dustin Rhodes to become NO1 contender to the United States Championship, Liger has said DDP is worth nothing to the world meanwhile Liger is known worldwide as the best luchador ever so he needs to take the title off DDP's hands tonight

Nasty Boys defeated Harlem Heat in non title competition so Eric Bischoff post poned the tag team tournament because he wanted this match to happen tonight

## Results

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## Details

* Armstrong vs Lane ended in a 15 minute time limit draw, both men shook hands and agreed to team up for the tag tournament and show what CW's are all about
* The Butcher was about to enter the wargames match when he turned back and beat up Hogan turning heel, he put Hogan on the ring and DoD proceeded to lead a 5 on 3 ambush which led Meng to do the samoan deathdrop and get the pin on Hogan