Halloween Havoc

TV Special
1991
3h

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Steve Borden, Jorge Gonzáles, George Gray, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Larry Pfohl, Ron Simmons, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, and Barry Windham in Halloween Havoc (1991)

WCW Title (2 out of 3 Falls Match): Lex Luger vs. Ron Simmons, Chamber of Horrors Match: Sting, The Steiner Brothers & El Gigante vs. Abdullah the Butcher, Cactus Jack, The Diamond Studd & B... Read allWCW Title (2 out of 3 Falls Match): Lex Luger vs. Ron Simmons, Chamber of Horrors Match: Sting, The Steiner Brothers & El Gigante vs. Abdullah the Butcher, Cactus Jack, The Diamond Studd & Big Van Vader, WCW Tag Team Titles: The Enforcers vs. The Patriots, WCW Television Title: S... Read allWCW Title (2 out of 3 Falls Match): Lex Luger vs. Ron Simmons, Chamber of Horrors Match: Sting, The Steiner Brothers & El Gigante vs. Abdullah the Butcher, Cactus Jack, The Diamond Studd & Big Van Vader, WCW Tag Team Titles: The Enforcers vs. The Patriots, WCW Television Title: Steve Austin vs. Dustin Rhodes, WCW Light Heavyweight Title: Richard Morton vs. Brian Pillm... Read all

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Good PPV Despite Some Dumb Gimmicks

The third annual WCW Halloween Havoc took place in the UTC Center in Chattanooga, TN, with Jim Ross and Tony Schiavone commentating. In this, eleven matches were on the card, with four of them being title matches, one being the final round of a tournament to decide the first WCW Light Heavyweight Champion.

Basically, the PPV is more infamous for its starting match, the Chamber Of Horrors match. I saw this on a Best Of Halloween Havoc VHS I owned as a kid, and this match is insane. Here, two teams, each composed of four men (team one having El Gigante, the Steiner Brothers, and Sting, and with the other having Big Van Vader, Diamond Studd, Cactus Jack, and Abdullah The Butcher), the match has no rules, allowing the use of a kendo stick and even caskets (one having a masked man inside), and the only way to win is for someone to put a member of the opposing team in the Chair of Torture (which is basically an electric chair) and someone pulls the switch, electrocuting him. It was insane, and would be one of the crazy gimmick matches that WCW would be infamous for (and this was three years before Hulk Hogan joined the company).

As for the other matches, we have some stinkers (like Johnny B. Badd Vs. Jimmy Gavin, and a match involving Kevin Nash's horrible Oz gimmick, which YouTube videos list as one of the worst gimmicks WCW thought up), but it had some good matches (Steve Austin Vs. Dustin Rhodes for the WCW World Television Championship, as well as Lex Luger Vs. Ron Simmons for the main events in a two-out-of-three falls match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship). It's a good show, but the stupid gimmicks keep it from being legendary.

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Trivia
Michael Hayes was not legitimately injured despite the fact that he had his arm in a sling.

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Paul E. Dangerously: [the WCW Halloween Phantom has just squashed Tom Zenk] The man behind this mask is the only man that can crush the hopes of the little Stingers until a man stands over the remnants of his career and says, "Ashes to ashes and dust to dust." Rest in peace Stinger, your career is over! Ladies and gentlemen, the next United States Heavyweight Champion, RAVISHING RICK RUDE!
Rick Rude: [Madusa finishes removing Rude's mask and his music plays. Rude takes the mic from a shocked Eric Bischoff] That's right people, it's Ravishing Rick Rude. And anyone who knows Ravishing Rick Rude knows that I only care about myself, my women
[points to Madusa]
Rick Rude: and my money
[points to Paul E]
Rick Rude: It just so happens that my money man has a problem with the World Championship Committee and the way he sees fit to solve this problem is to dismantle the WCW brick by brick. What better way, Mr. Dangerously, to start off with a lowlife scumbag like Sting? You know, Mr. Dangerously, a couple of questions come to my mind. Given that I've never had the opportunity to stand face to face with the Stinger, I'm kinda wondering if he's really as small as he looks on television. I'm kinda wondering if he's the lowlife garbage-collecting scumbag that he portrays on TV. Well Sting, your days are numbered! I'm gonna tear apart the WCW and I'm gonna take your WCW United States Title!