WrestleWar (1991) | ||||
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Tagline(s) | We Want You! | |||
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Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | |||
Date | February 24, 1991 | |||
Attendance | 6,800 | |||
Venue | Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum | |||
City | Phoenix, Arizona | |||
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WrestleWar 1991: WarGames was a professional wrestling major show, broadcast on pay-per-view (PPV) produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and took place on February 24, 1991 from the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. This was the first PPV not produced under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner. This would be the third year in a row WCW promoted a PPV under the name "WrestleWar", a series that would include four shows in total.
In 2015, all WCW pay-per-views were made available on the WWE Network.
The 1991 WrestleWar show was the first time WCW held a WarGames match outside of their Great American Bash shows, the match was a Steel cage match that enclosed two rings at once with two teams fighting inside. In the War Games match the The Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Sid Vicious) and Larry Zbyszko defeated Sting, Brian Pillman, and The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner). The match ended after Sid Vicious repeatedly powerbombed Brian Pillman, including at least one powerbomb where Pillman's head hit the roof of the cage. Unable to continue El Gigante came to the ring and surrendered the match on Pillman's behalf. This was a constructed ending to allow Sting's team to lose without actually submitting, making Sid Vicious a bigger heel and making Brian Pillman a more sympathetic underdog in his fight with the 4 Horsemen. Zbyszko was not a member of the 4 Horsemen but brought in as a replacement for Arn Anderson who was injured at the time.