Let’s dive into WCW Bash at the Beach 1999 on this “Into the Vault”! This event took place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and drew a bit under 13,700. Our main event for this one sees the World Heavyweight championship defended in a tag match as champion Kevin Nash teams with Sting to take on Randy Savage and a returning SID VICIOUS!
The Best
Another tag match with the JERSEY TRIAD taking on Saturn and Benoit. This time, it’s a handicap match with all three members of the JERSEY TRIAD taking on Benoit and Saturn…and those two held their own! There were stakes involved with the WCW Tag Team titles being on the line but Benoit and Saturn really fought for those belts and that made for an exciting match.
The Rest
Bash at the Beach 1999 kicks off with Ernest Miller taking on Disco Inferno. Let’s just kick this off with a skipperooni. It’s one of those matches between two showboats where you expect more. There’s a lot of skipping to be done on this show. I’d say that Rick Steiner defending the TV title against Van Hammer is worth a skip. It’s about three minutes, so you could watch it and not miss anything or lose time.
Similar to the above match, David Flair defending the U.S title against Dean Malenko warrants a skip. A title match with Malenko gets a skip? Yes, if it features David Flair, it does.
Rey Jr and BA (Brad Armstrong) really delivered in the elimination tag team match. Here you had the West Texas Rednecks team of Hennig, Bobby Duncum, Barry Windham, & Kendall Windham taking on the No Limit Soldiers of Konnan, Rey Mysterio, B.A, and Swoll.
I don’t know how B.A integrated himself into the No Limit Soldiers. Probably the same way he did with the Freebirds? Anyway, he’s there and still shows that he’s an extremely good hand to have on a roster. As for the match itself, it was solid. This could’ve been a six-man elimination and would’ve probably been better.
WCW had an amazing, expensive-ass production team that often flubbed it when it came to filming brawls. That’s a massive flaw of the Junkyard Invitational, it was too dark and it wasn’t filmed in front of the crowd.
This was a match I was anticipating. I love these brawling, extreme-oriented matches. Eh, they needed some flood lights or spotlights out there. I noticed the dark shots from WCW with a lot of the hardcore matches on other shows so I kind of expected it here.
The boxing match between Buff Bagwell and Roddy Piper was brief but totally unnecessary. WCW definitely built up to this match, it’s just that late 90s Piper was all the way done. I just wasn’t into whatever the guy was involved in even if Flair or Hollywood Hogan were involved.
I certainly didn’t care for a boxing match against Buff Bagwell. On an interesting note, I’d say this was good for Bagwell because I could see him being someone that WCW wanted in a bigger role. Sometimes these kinds of matches are necessary to get there.
In the main event we’ve got some crafty booking by setting up a match where the champion could lose the belt without being pinned. The main event was a tag match where the winner got the belt meaning Kevin Nash didn’t have to be pinned at all.
Also involved were Sting, teaming with Nash against Randy Savage & Sid Vicious. Good to see Sid on national TV again. Unfortunately, this match wasn’t particularly good. It wasn’t a lengthy, boring match or anything, the action just wasn’t there.
I guess Sting put a little more oomph into things here but for the most part, it’s a no-go.
WCW Bash at the Beach 1999 Verdict: Bronze Medal (3/10)
This was just…lousy. There was one match in “The Rest” pile that could’ve been part of “The Best” but it was lacking something. I really believe the No Limit Soldiers vs. West Texas Rednecks match could’ve been a six-man tag and would’ve gone up there.
Our match of the show honor goes to the JERSEY TRIAD throwing down with pre-The Revolution Benoit and Saturn.
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