The Sixer: WCW Fall Brawl Tag Team Matches
HEY! So here’s a kinda dumb one, a true whim. I was gonna do six matches from the PPV history of WCW Fall Brawl — minus 1993, which was just covered in a Classic Review, and minus 1995, because I watched that show not so long ago — but then I started looking back on the lineups and thought, you know, there are some interesting1 tag matches in this event’s history, most of which I remember little to nothing about or at the very least haven’t watched in however long.
SO! Six tag team matches from the history of Fall Brawl! The lineup:
1994: Pretty Wonderful vs Stars & Stripes
1997: Faces of Fear vs Wrath & Mortis
1997: Scott Hall & Randy Savage vs Lex Luger & Diamond Dallas Page
1998: Alex Wright & Disco Inferno vs Jim Neidhart & British Bulldog
1999: Shane Douglas & Dean Malenko vs Brian Knobbs & Hugh Morrus
2000: Kroniꓘ vs Harris Brothers
No ‘96 match because I’m not feeling Harlem Heat vs Nasty Boys — which is a good match, from my memory — over either of those ‘97 matches as something to just watch right now.
LET’S GO!
Pretty Wonderful vs Stars & Stripes
WCW Fall Brawl
Sept. 18, 1994 - Roanoke, VA
This is for the WCW tag belts held by Pretty Wonderful, which is Pauls Orndorff and Roma if you’re some type youngster, and Stars & Stripes are the team of Marcus Alexander Bagwell and The Patriot. My fondest Patriot memories are not his WCW run nor his short stint with the WWF in 1997 nor him selling the gimmick to Salvatore Sincere, but his work in Global in the early 90s2.
This match is following Jim Duggan hitting WCW and winning the U.S. title from Steve Austin in 35 seconds, which was just a phenomenal call by Eric Bischoff the business genius. Hey, all I know for sure is Austin was gone from WCW in about a year and never worked there again, while Duggan hung around through the company’s demise in 2001.