Great American Bash 1988 Commercial

[sgzartan]

Ron Garvin knocking out Dusty looked awesome. The Dusty finish for the main event should have been changed!

[WWFattitude2000]

That makes me wanna watch The Bash '88 now!

[MrDemolitionMan]

Why is this called "the Best" of the GAB '88? Surely it's just the PPV show?

[rockcarter1313]

Actually the tape contains one non PPV match for the TV title between Sting and Mike Rotunda. So that's why they are calling it the best of Bash '88

[RussianNightmare]

Back in the day the GAB was not a 1 day event, like now. The GAB was supposed to be the best matches over a period of time during the summer, usually for like a month. There may have been one day where it was the PPV, but when the VHS tapes came out it was a compilation of the best signature matches of the Great American Bash time period, which again was not 1 single day. Hope that helps.

[philaman1972]

This was the first PPV I ordered when I was 16. I still have the tape too.

An *excellent* card, top to bottom, complete with a crazy Dusty finish at the end. Co-commentator Jim Ross was young and at the top of his game then.

[DTakersgurl]

Oh how I miss wrestling the way it used to be. This is way wrestling is supposed to be.

A few promos and hours of wrestling. Not 2 hours of promos and 2 minutes of wrestling.

[GilbertsV1]

damn right DTakersgurl, that event was awesome and the tag team match at the opening was so good, i'm still mad at the end of the event but Flair was a perfect heel back in the days !!

[Phaktor1]

Ah...the Ronnie Garvin heel turn against Dusty. Classic. Helped Barry retain the US strap. Then he goes to the WWF to be a mid-card nobody...

[gizmomanhattan]

Wow, brings back so many memories. I bought this tape back then along with Bash 87 and a few Starrcades. I used to love watching the ads they had in the beginning. The first NWA ppv i ordered was starrcade 88. I still have them somewhere along with ppv's from WWF and WCW up until '93

[MysticArksRevenge]

My grandma has the Starrcade 1988 video tape!

[xAces11Highx]

That you can find on the VHS version of Starrcade 88: True Gritt.

[StroThaDean]

Great stuff man...brings back memories....

[miguel7399]

The first wrestling commercial ive ever seen telling the whole match card

[mrios328]

35 bucks? what a rip

[Soultsukino]

Not really, VHS tapes back then were pretty expensive. I remember getting Wrestlemania 4 for Christmas and it was 40 bucks

[hogarthy]

I remember WWE tapes being advertised for $59.95 in WWE magazine. Don't think many people bought them back then, they were mostly for rental stores.

[Soultsukino]

Oh yeah, getting any of that stuff directly from the WWE was WAY more expensive. I think at one point they offered their SNES games for 100 dollars

[xAces11Highx]

Yeah I remember my father getting WWF tapes for me from Columbia House but at discounted prices. The original prices read 50-60 bucks on them.

[takauthar]

this was the point where vince started his systematic destruction of nwa. because prior to the bash series in 88, vince took the powers of pain, which was the feud everybody was looking forward to (the RWs v. the P.O.P). so vince took some of the steam out of the bash.then,after the bash,he got arn & tully and that was the knockout blow.

[herculeshernandez]

yep- because after they stopped with the whole competing PPV/TV event thing, I guess Vince decided he'd shut them down in another way, which was by securing their talent. Getting Arn & Tully was def. a knockout blow, because that effectively ended the Horsemen, who were the biggest draw in NWA.

[ed2kou1]

Woooo Do you have the Flair Vs Luger match from the bash 88 and the AA Tully match vs Nikita and Sting.

[badstreetusa]

some good stuff.