National Wrestling Alliance: Uncensored 1990

NWA/WCW Uncensored: Enron Field (Mid South) 31,305 Fans 1.43 Buy Rate

(Pre-Show) Bam Bam Bigelow & Kevin Sullivan defeated Junkyard Dog & Paul Orndorff “B-”
You know you have a stacked show when you have these four taking part in a “dark match” of a pay-per-view. I imagine none of them were too happy about it either.

(Pre-Show) Varsity Club (Mike Rotundo & Steve Williams) defeated Foreign Legion (Dino Bravo & Don Muraco) “B-”
This might be one of the last times we see Varsity Club for a while, as there appears to be plans to have both Rotundo and Williams take part in more singles matches. They beat Foreign Legion here, which was Dino Bravo’s first appearance in the NWA, teamed up with Don Muraco. Bravo and Muraco are old friends and insiders say they couldn’t be more pleased being teamed together. They should have a good run under their new tag name, Foreign Legion.

1. Super Zenith defeated Sid Vicious for the WCW United States Title “B”
Even though Sid Vicious man-handled Super Zenith for most of the match, Super Zenith managed a surprise pin doing a small package as Sid was playing to the fans. As soon as the bell rang, Super Zenith jumped from the ring and high tailed it to the back leaving a very angry Sid standing in the ring.

2. Midnight Express (Eaton & Lane) defeated Fabulous Freebirds (Hayes & Garvin) and The Texas Cowboys (Hansen & Orton) for the WCW World Tag Team Titles “B+”
Jim Cornette’s Midnight Express became the only two time WCW World Tag Champions when they won this match with the Freebirds and Texas Cowboys. As far as tag team matches go, it would be hard to top this match as the fans really seemed to enjoy the whole thing all the way through. So now, not only is Jim Cornette the general manager of the WCW, but he’s also the manager of it’s tag champions.

3. Rick Rude defeated Sting “B+”
In a well put together match between Rude and Sting, the fans really got behind it all the way. It had each wrestler having high spots and then comebacks and the flow was perfect throughout the whole match. As Sting came through the entrance to the back, he was heard to tell Greg Moe that he thought that he and Rude could do even better if they get another match soon. Though Greg didn’t reply to Sting then, you have to think he’d be more than happy to make that happen.

4. Hart Foundation (Kid & Neidhart) defeated The Brainbusters (Blanchard & A. Anderson) and Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) in a 3 team ladder match to retain the NWA Tag Team Titles “B”
This was the first ladder match of any kind in the NWA and it went over pretty well. It probably would have gone over even better in a singles match, but these three teams wanted to give it a try, and believe it or not, it was the Road Warriors who sold the idea to Greg Moe. Hawk and Animal aren’t known for being very agile, but they did better than what you would have expected. Before this match, it is rumored that Greg has already had a sit down with the Road Warriors and he supposedly told them that they would be regaining the tag titles again very soon after Uncensored.

5. Terry Funk defeated Jerry Lawler in a Cage Classic match to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Title “B-”

Though this match was pretty good, people were left with the feeling that it should have and could have been better. According to Funk and a couple of the road agents, Funk has been having problems working with a few of the WCW top workers, such as Bob Orton and Junkyard Dog, and he may have shown some problems working with Jerry Lawler tonight. It’s hard to pin down the problems, but you have to wonder if Greg Moe in considering moving Terry Funk to the NWA roster or moving a few NWA stars to the WCW roster to give Funk other people to work with. Funk has expressed in the past that he’d like to get in on the heat the “Worldwide” show has been getting, but Greg assured him the heat for the WCW “Saturday Night” show would pick up, and it has, so we will have to wait and see what happens. A close friend to Funk however said that Terry wasn’t real happy about Sting joining the WCW roster only to feud with Rick Rude, as Funk was hoping it would be he who would be working with Sting.

6. Bret Hart defeated Lex Luger in a Cage Escape match for the NWA World Heavyweight Title “B+”
Bret Hart and Lex Luger had another great match that went back and fourth the whole time and with both wrestlers juicing to build it even hotter. Both Hart and Luger had many near escapes during the match and it ended when Bret Hart jumped from the top of the cage to the floor right past Lex Luger who was climbing down to the floor. Bret’s feet touched the floor first, just ahead of Luger’s giving Bret Hart the win. Hart sold it as if he really hurt himself having jumped from the top of the cage. The jump caused a huge pop from the crowd and an even bigger one when the seemingly injured Hart was handed the NWA World Title for the second time. Even more heat was built between Bret Hart and the Four Horsemen after Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson jumped Bret as he was being helped to the back by a couple of EMS workers.

7. Ric Flair defeated Roddy Piper in a Texas Death match when Piper couldn’t beat a 10 count following a pin “A”
Flair and Piper took this match past 30 minutes and each dished out some brutal punishment to each other. Both men were pinned a few times each, but each time they would beat the ten count to keep the match going. The match finally ended when Arn Anderson came out to distract the referee while Tully Blanchard smashed Roddy Piper over the head with a chair knocking him out completely making it impossible for Piper to answer the ten count after Flair got the pin. At the end of the match, you could feel the anger from the crowd thick in the air as Blanchard, Anderson and Ric Flair walked to the back holding up their four fingers and grinning from ear to ear while Roddy Piper lay knocked out in the ring. Arn Anderson even ripped a sign out of the hands of one fan that read "Imagine" and ripped it to pieces.