Bash at the Beach 1996 Live Discussion - March 5, 2020

[Kross Rhodes]

Has to be. I can't think of one bigger consequences and a larger impact.

 

[Hoss]

But I mean, this match and the post-match segment completely changed the face of this whole company and tilted the Monday Night Wars.

 

[Hoss]

Whereas Austin's rise was more gradual. Those matches just helped bring him along.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Maybe Austin and Hart since it's the double turn that leads to the attitude era, but I think at best it's a distant second.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I don't think there's a Hart/Austin match without this match.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

This match and angle changed everything. Forever.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Attitude doesn't happen without a need to compete with WCW/nWo.

 

[Hoss]

Idk about them giving The Outsiders a formal entrance at the beginning of this match though I have to say. That felt a little odd.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

IIRC Nash agrees with you. He didn't win that fight.

 

[Hoss]

I'm trying to imagine how it would have been if Nash and Hall had still jumped ship, but they never went with the nWo and they basically just continued with the same product style and everything

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Funny how Vinnie Vegas and Diamond Studd were on WCW B shows when they left and they come back to headline a big 4 PPV.

 

[Hoss]

And Nash and Hall were just in the mix like every other wrestler

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Probably not too different than when they were there before except without their WWF names and gimmicks, they middle of the pack.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

TBH Scott probably goes back to Diamond Studd and could maybe hit upper mid and main.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Nash probably does the bodyguard role again.