10 Things You Didn't Know About Bash At The Beach

Stipulation matches in wrestling can be good, as long as they're not too over the top. WCW was of course a company known for producing some of the wackier match stipulations over the years (cc: the Doomsday Cage Match from Uncensored 1996).

Bash At The Beach featured quite a few of these gimmick bouts. While not all of them were necessarily atrocious or too far-fetched, many of them were only used once, that one time being at this event. For example, the 1995 show featured a Lifeguard Match, which was nothing more than a Lumberjack Match with the lumberjacks dressed as lifeguards.

There's nothing wrong with that. It's simple, However, there were some others which were a bit more complicated than people standing around ringside.

1996 saw Big Bubba and John Tenta face off in a Carson City Silver Dollar Match, which saw a sock full of coins attached to a pole above the ring, one of wrestling's many, many *insert object* on a pole match types. Meanwhile, 1999 featured the Junkyard Invitational, which saw a host of competitors scramble to climb a chain link fence out of a junkyard to be declared the winner.

Compared to some other match types, these aren't especially terrible, but they did mark their only appearances in WCW history.