Classic Review: WCW Clash of the Champions 17

We’re back with the seventh of this month’s Classic Reviews! The clock is ticking and the hours are growing short but we WILL reach the full 10 by 11:59 pm on November 30, that is a TAPE guarantee.

As a note, there won’t be normal posts for Dynamite or Collision this week, because I’m attending the taping tonight in Chicago. There should be a Road Report post like I did for All Out, though.

Here we are back with WCW for a Clash of the Champions in 1991, which was a real silly ass time for the company that I remember fondly due to my age and what have you.

Let’s get at it!

WCW Clash of the Champions
November 19, 1991
Civic Center - Savannah, GA

• Five championship matches tonight, as we actually have a “Clash of the Champions” style show again at the Clash of the Champions!

• We’ve got Jim Ross and Tony Schiavone on the call. Sting will get his final gift box!

• Elsewhere, it’s Eric Bischoff and Missy Hyatt. Later, Missy will interview Marcus Alexander Bagwell, WCW’s newest rookie. Bischoff is horrible, which isn’t really a knock on him, Bischoff himself is well aware that he wasn’t the best commentator/interviewer/whatever.

Big Josh vs Thomas Rich

Lumberjack Match

Rich, as you can tell by the name, is in his York Foundation period. If Big Josh had joined the York Foundation he would have changed his name to Large Joshua.

These two are former best friends; you may recall that Thomas, then Tommy, brought Josh to WCW, having known him from going hunting together. Because Big Josh is not a trained wrestler and never was and he’s not Matt Borne. Freebirds wore their leather jackets to lumberjack so they may not have intention to do much at all. Yorkies Richard Morton and Terrence Taylor are out there; Morton just refuses to dress the part at all. Won’t change his hair, won’t stop wearing t-shirts with the sleeves cut off. That dude knew that shit wasn’t going to stick and he wasn’t changing for it.

Rich on the floor, and the Birds do their job and toss the heel back in there without any cheapshots, and don’t even follow their natural instinct to get into a fight with the Young Pistols. (I believe by this point the Freebirds and Pistols had changed sides and the Freebirds were now Fan Favorites and the Pistols were Rulebreakers, in the PWI language of the day.)