The Great American Bash 88 | VHS | Television Commercial | 1988 | The Price For Freedom

The Great American Bash 88 | VHS | Television Commercial | 1988 | The Price For Freedom

The Great American Bash (1988) was the fourth annual Great American Bash professional wrestling event produced by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner and the first Great American Bash event to be produced as a pay-per-view (PPV) event. It took place on July 10, 1988 at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. This was the final National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) event produced by Jim Crockett Promotions and the third and final National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) event to be produced as a pay-per-view, as Jim Crockett Promotions was purchased by Turner Broadcasting System in November 1988 and the promotion was renamed as World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

The main event was a standard wrestling match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Ric Flair defeated Lex Luger to retain the title when the match was stopped due to Luger's excessive bleeding.[3]

Featured matches on the undercard were Barry Windham versus Dusty Rhodes for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship, The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal), Steve Williams, Jimmy Garvin and Ron Garvin versus Kevin Sullivan, Mike Rotunda, Al Perez, Russian Assassin and Ivan Koloff in a Tower of Doom match, The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers) versus Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship and Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard versus Sting and Nikita Koloff for the NWA World Tag Team Championship.