Slamboree - 1996

1996

Slamboree 1996
Tagline(s) What Goes Up Must come down... HARD!
Information
Promotion World Championship Wrestling
Date May 19, 1996
Attendance 7,791
Venue Riverside Centroplex
City Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Pay-per-view chronology
Uncensored 1996 Slamboree 1996 The Great American Bash 1996

Slamboree 1996 took place on May 19, 1996 from the Riverside Centroplex in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Every non-title match was a Lethal Lottery match with wrestlers being randomly paired together, and the winning teams would advance to the Battlebowl battle royal.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

  • Main Event match: The American Males (Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs) defeated The Shark and Maxx (with Jimmy Hart) (2:39)
    • Riggs pinned Shark after Maxx inadvertently clotheslined him while Riggs was up in powerslam position.
  • Road Warrior Animal and Booker T fought Road Warrior Hawk and Lex Luger to a double countout (6:54)
    • Both teams were counted out after the Road Warriors teamed up to attack their partners.
  • The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) defeated Chris Benoit and The Taskmaster (4:44)
    • Rock pinned Benoit after he was put through a table.
  • Rick Steiner and The Booty Man (with the Booty Babe) defeated Sgt. Craig Pittman and Scott Steiner (8:21)
    • Rick pinned Pittman after a belly-to-belly suplex.
  • VK Wallstreet and Jim Duggan defeated The Blue Bloods (Lord Steven Regal and Squire David Taylor) (3:46)
    • Duggan pinned Taylor after hitting him with a taped fist.
  • Dick Slater and Earl Robert Eaton defeated Disco Inferno and Alex Wright (2:56)
    • Slater pinned Disco after hitting him with his boot.
  • Diamond Dallas Page and The Barbarian defeated Meng and Hugh Morrus (5:15)
    • Barbarian pinned Morrus after a Big Boot.
    • Page replaced "Hardwork" Bobby Walker, who was injured.
  • Fire and Ice (Scott Norton and Ice Train) defeated Big Bubba Rogers and Stevie Ray (3:32)
    • Norton pinned Rogers after a clothesline.
  • Ric Flair and Randy Savage (with Woman and Miss Elizabeth) defeated Arn Anderson and Eddie Guerrero (4:04)
    • Flair pinned Guerrero after Anderson delivered the DDT to Guerrero.
    • Before and following the match Flair and Anderson attacked Savage.
  • Dean Malenko defeated Brad Armstrong to retain the WCW Cruiserweight Championship (8:29)
    • Malenko pinned Armstrong after an overhead gutbuster from the top rope.
  • Dick Slater and Earl Robert Eaton defeated VK Wallstreet and Jim Duggan (4:08)
    • Eaton pinned Wallstreet with a roll-up.
  • The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) defeated Ric Flair and Randy Savage (with Woman and Miss Elizabeth) by forfeit (0:00)
    • Savage attacked Flair during his entrance as retribution for the earlier attack.
  • Diamond Dallas Page and The Barbarian defeated Rick Steiner and The Booty Man (with the Booty Babe) (5:05)
    • Barbarian pinned Booty Man after Page broke up a pin attempt by delivering an elbowdrop.
  • Konnan defeated Jushin Liger to retain the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (9:30)
    • Konnan pinned Liger with the Splash Mountain powerbomb.
  • Diamond Dallas Page won the Battlebowl match also featuring: The Barbarian, Earl Robert Eaton, Ice Train, Scott Norton, Rocco Rock, Johnny Grunge and Dick Slater (9:33)
    • Page was crowned "Lord of the Ring" and earned a shot at the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at The Great American Bash.
    • The title shot was revoked the next night on WCW Monday Nitro, after footage shown that Page was thrown over the top rope by Barbarian and one foot touched the floor
  • The Giant (with Jimmy Hart) defeated Sting (with Lex Luger) to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Championship (10:41)
    • Giant pinned Sting after Sting collided with Hart's megaphone, being held by Luger, and Giant performed a Chokeslam.

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