In the last few years of its life, WCW became famous for a staggeringly good undercard and a phenomenally bad and usually overbooked main event. 1992s WrestleWar pay-per-view in Jacksonville Florida on 17th May 1992 went the other way, delivering a mediocre card up until the final three matches, all of which were incredible. Flyin Brian Pillman stole the show and carried Tom Zenk (The Z-Man) to an amazing match, retaining the light heavyweight championship, and the Steiner brothers kicked the asses of Takayuki Iizuka and Tatsumi Fujinami. Since the drama over the NWA/WCW world heavyweight championship with Ric Flair was still going on, there was no main title defence on the card, leaving it to the brutal WarGames match to round out the night. With two rings side by side set up beneath a massive rectangular cage, and two teams of five men scrapping it out in a match where only stoppage or submission could secure a win, the WarGames match was never going to be for the fainthearted. Here it was the dramatic, intense culmination of a long feud between Stings crew and the Dangerous Alliance, with Stings team picking up the win after Beautiful Bobby Eaton submitted to Stings armbar.
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