Wrestle War - 1992

1992

WrestleWar 1992: WarGames took place on May 17, 1992 from the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Dark Match:Diamond Dallas Page and Thomas Rich defeated Bob Cook and Firebreaker Chip (8:05)
  • Page pinned Cook.
• The Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) defeated Terry Taylor and Greg Valentine to win the WCW United States Tag Team Championship (16:02)
  • Garvin pinned Taylor.
• Johnny B. Badd defeated Tracy Smothers (7:03)
  • Badd pinned Smothers.
• Scotty Flamingo defeated Marcus Bagwell (7:11)
  • Flamingo pinned Bagwell.
• Ron Simmons defeated Mr. Hughes (5:22)
  • Simmons pinned Hughes.
  • This was scheduled to be Simmons and The Junkyard Dog vs. Hughes and Cactus Jack, but Jack attacked JYD before the match.
• The Super Invader (with Harley Race) defeated Todd Champion (5:26)
  • Invader pinned Champion.
• Big Josh defeated Richard Morton (7:33)
  • Josh pinned Morton.
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated Tatsumi Fujinami and Takayuki Iizuka to become number one contenders for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
  • Rick pinned Iizuka.
  • The Steiners' WCW World Tag Team Championship was not on the line, making it a non-title match.
• Brian Pillman defeated Tom Zenk to retain the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (15:30)
  • Pillman pinned Zenk.
• Sting's Squadron (Sting, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes, Ricky Steamboat and Nikita Koloff) defeated The Dangerous Alliance (Steve Austin, Rick Rude, Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton and Larry Zbyszko) (w/Paul E. Dangerously and Madusa) in a WarGames match (23:27)
  • Sting forced Eaton to submit with an armbar, after Zbyszko accidentally hit Eaton in the shoulder with a metal piece of the turnbuckle. This was the eighth and final match in the history of Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling ever to be given a five star rating by Wrestling Observer Newsletter editor Dave Meltzer.