Bash at the Beach 1996: Encyclopedia II - Bash at the Beach 1996 - The Show

Bash at the Beach 1996 - The Show

Below are some details about the show as well as its results. Matches not shown on the actual pay-per-view telecast are italicized:

Date: July 7, 1996

Venue: Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, FL

Attendance: 8,300

Gate: $72,000

Pay-Per-View Buyrate: 0.71

Announcers: Tony Schiavone, Dusty Rhodes, and Bobby Heenan (with "Mean Gene" Okerlund doing interviews)

• Jim Powers pinned Hugh Morrus
• Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner beat WCW World Tag Team champions Harlem Heat by disqualification at 5:01
• Bobby Walker pinned Billy Kidman at 2:00
• The Rock 'N Roll Express beat Scott Norton & Ice Train when Ricky Morton pinned Norton at 2:08
• Eddie Guerrero pinned Lord Steven Regal at 3:38
• Rey Misterio Jr. pinned Psicosis at 15:18
• John Tenta pinned Big Bubba Rogers (with Jimmy Hart) in a "Carson City silver dollar" match at 9:00
• Diamond Dallas Page pinned Jim Duggan at 5:39 in a "taped fist" match
• The Nasty Boys beat Public Enemy in a "double dog collar chain" match when Jerry Sags pinned Rocco Rock at 11:25
• WCW World Cruiserweight champion Dean Malenko pinned Disco Inferno at 12:04
• Steve McMichael (with Debra McMichael) pinned Joe Gomez at 6:44
• Ric Flair (with Woman & Miss Elizabeth) pinned WCW U.S. Heavyweight champion Konnan at 15:39 to win the title
• The Giant & Kevin Sullivan (with Jimmy Hart) beat Arn Anderson & Chris Benoit when The Giant pinned Anderson at 7:59
• Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, & Hulk Hogan wrestled Randy Savage, Sting, & Lex Luger to a no-contest at 16:00. After the match, Hogan delivered a memorable interview with Mean Gene, stating his reasons for siding with Hall and Nash and telling his fans to stick it. During this interview, Hogan also coined the phrase "New World Order of wrestling" to describe the new alliance between himself, Hall, and Nash, which lent the name "New World Order" or nWo to the storyline that followed. The fans in attendance were so outraged and disgusted by Hogan's heel turn that they pelted the ring with garbage for the duration of the interview.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "The Show", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki