Fall Brawl - 1996

1996

Fall Brawl 1996: War Games took place on September 15, 1996 from the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Diamond Dallas Page defeated Chavo Guerrero, Jr. (13:07)
  • Page pinned Guerrero after a diamond cutter.
• Ice Train (with Teddy Long) defeated Scott Norton in a Submission match (7:08)
  • Train forced Norton to submit with a Full Nelson.
• Konnan (with Jimmy Hart) defeated Juventud Guerrera to retain the AAA Heavyweight Championship (13:45)
  • Konnan pinned Guerrera after a splash mountain sitout-powerbomb.
  • Before the match, while Guerrera was making his way to the ring, he tripped over the stairs.
• Chris Benoit defeated Chris Jericho (14:36)
  • Benoit pinned Jericho with a back superplex.
• Rey Mysterio, Jr. defeated Super Caló to retain the WCW Cruiserweight Championship (15:47)
  • Mysterio pinned Calo after a hurricanrana, which saw Mysterio springboarding from one ring to the other.
• Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) (with Sister Sherri) defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobs and Jerry Sags) to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship (15:31)
  • Booker pinned Knobs after Sherri interfered and hit Knobs with Parker's cane.
• The Giant defeated Randy Savage by pinfall (7:47)
  • Hollywood Hogan came to ringside late in the match after Savage had hit a flying elbow on Giant. Savage left the ring to chase Hogan, then was attacked by Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, who knocked Savage out with a chair. Referee Nick Patrick was arguing with Giant while this all was going on and didn't see anything, and Giant pinned the fallen Savage after the rest of the nWo carried him back to the ring.
• Team nWo (Hollywood Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and nWo Sting) (with Ted DiBiase) defeated Team WCW (Lex Luger, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and Sting) in a WarGames match (18:15)
  • nWo Sting and Hogan forced Luger to submit with a combination of the Scorpion Deathlock and a reverse chinlock.
  • Due to Team WCW doubting his allegiance, Sting abandoned Luger, Flair, and Anderson shortly after entering and the match became a 4-on-3 handicap match.
  • After the match Randy Savage came out to attack Hogan, only to be beaten down by the entire nWo. Miss Elizabeth was also attacked after she came down to plead with Hogan to stop.