-The wrestling world lost Kevin Sullivan yesterday. As I have gotten older is has become increasingly sad seeing the men and women I grew up watching as a child pass away. I wanted to find a way to paid tribute to Mr.
Sullivan and figured the best way was to review this show as it contains not only my favorite Sullivan match, but one of the favorite matches of all time. RIP sir! Let’s get to it! -Announce Team: Tony Schiavone, Bobby “The Brain” Heenan or Jesse “The Body” Ventura -Philadelphia, PA -May 22, 1994 -Attendance: 4800 -PPV Buys: 105,000 -Mean Gene Okerlund welcomes us to the show and brings out the Legends: Ole Anderson, The Assassin, Penny Banner, Red Bastien, Tully Blanchard, The Crusher, Don Curtis, Verne Gagne, Terry Funk (no show and that would mean something later), Hard Boiled Haggerty, Larry Hennig, Killer Kowalski, Ernie Ladd, Wahoo McDaniel, Angelo Mosca, Harley Race, Johnny Weaver, Mr. Wrestling II, and Tommy Young.
-Tony and Bobby are ringside with Nick Bockwinkel, who announces that Rick Rude has been stripped of the WCW International Championship. He brings Sting out, and wants to name him Champion, but Sting doesn’t want to win it that way. He wants a match against Vader tonight to be for the International World Title.
WCW United States Championship: “Stunning” Steve Austin (c) (w/ Colonel Parker) vs. Johnny B. Badd -Two years later these two men are wrestling in WWF in a match that helped change history.
Funny how things work out! Bad.