6. Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair (Bash At The Beach '94)
Pro wrestling is astounding because in just under three months in 1994, Ric Flair went from wrestling Lord Steven Regal in rounds matches to wrestling Hulk Hogan for the WCW Heavyweight Championship. Different types of wrestling fans are awesome when you *REALLY* give them what they want. WCW had excelled in '94 in giving die-hard wrestling fans a lot of great pro wrestling. However, when more causal wrestling fans were given the wrestling match that every wrestling fan had wanted to see at Wrestlemania VIII some two years later, they waited with bated breath to either see the Atomic Legdrop or a figure-four in the middle of the ring. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ux6h_bash-at-the-beach-1994-ric-flair-vs_sport Flair and Hogan deliver here, and Hogan's win causes a great response where a good 70% of the crowd is going nuts, but there's those die-hard wrestling fans looking like they'd been robbed of their favorite toy for good.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
