The Great American Bash (1991) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It was the fourth The Great American Bash event to be broadcast via pay-per-view and the event took place on July 14, 1991 at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.

The original scheduled card of the event was heavily changed. Ric Flair was scheduled to defend the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Lex Luger in a steel cage match but Flair was fired before the event and was replaced by Barry Windham. Luger defeated Windham to win his first world championship. The main event was a handicap steel cage match, in which Rick Steiner defeated Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously.

The card was originally to be headlined by a steel cage match between Ric Flair and Lex Luger for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and this match was heavily promoted on WCW television but two weeks before the show, then-WCW Executive Vice President Jim Herd fired Flair over a contract dispute, stripping him of the title in the process. At the time, champions left a $25,000 security deposit that would be refunded to them (along with any accumulated interest on the deposit) once they lost the title. As Herd did not give Flair back his deposit, he retained possession of the belt and later brought it to the World Wrestling Federation, where he appeared with it on television. WCW had to commission a new world championship belt. However, the new belt could not be readied in time for the event, so the company was forced to improvise. A Championship Wrestling from Florida title belt that was in the possession of Dusty Rhodes was used and a metal plate with "WCW World Heavyweight Champion" was attached to the front.

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