10 Things You Didn't Know About WCW In 1994
5. Fall Brawl's Buyrate Dropped Off Significantly
Bash At The Beach 1994 drew quite the buyrate for WCW, pulling in a monstrous (for the time) 1.02 rating. By contrast, and to put things into some perspective, the Beach Blast 1993 show had only garnered a 0.50 buyrate. The bigger number was attributed to the star power of Hulk Hogan, who faced Ric Flair on the event.
If hopes were high that the promotion had turned a corner, a reality check following the next pay-per-view brought things crashing back down to earth. Just two months after Bash At The Beach, WCW presented their now-annual Fall Brawl event, one which would be headlined by the infamous War Games match.
Hogan wasn't scheduled on the show, which unquestionably hurt the buyrate. Headlined by The Nasty Boys, Dusty and Dustin Rhodes vs. The Stud Stable, Fall Brawl pulled in a 0.53. The next show, Halloween Havoc (just a month after Fall Brawl) featuring Hogan gleaned a 0.93, meaning Hulk was able to point to himself as the sole reason for turning the WCW ship around.