Great American Bash 1996:
After at best two lackluster pay-per-views, WCW by apparently consensus hit a homerun on Sunday.
Ironically, despite all of the praise the Bash has received, there was nothing close to a match of the year candidate on the event.
What made the Bash such an aesthetic success was the consistency of the action and the surprises.
The biggest angle on the show involved Kevin Nash and Scott Hall.
Eric Bischoff announced that WCW, after much debate, had agreed to give them a match at Bash at the Beach.
When Hall and Nash pressed Bischoff for whom their opponents would be, he said he couldn’t tell them until “tomorrow in Nitro.”
Hall responded by jamming the microphone in Bischoff’s gut and Nash proceeded to jackknife Bischoff off the interview stage and through a table below.
Even though the table was gimmicked, including padding underneath, the bump Bischoff took was amazing looking and legitimately somewhat risky.
He lay knocked out and was stretchered from the scene.
The next day on Nitro “a drawing took place” with Randy Savage, Sting, and Lex Luger being drawn from a pool of six WCW names (Giant, Hulk Hogan, and Ric Flair were the other three) who would face the outsiders, still nameless on WCW TV, Hall and Nash.
