I miss this kind of wrestling. thank God for youtube

Agreed. Muta was freaking awesome: speed, moves, underrated strength, his "aura," everything. Just listen to the pop he got when he went up against Arn in this match....put him against a heel, and the crowd easily got behind him. I would have loved to have seen him have a championship title run.

@bluethundershark Even as a kid, when I was a total mark, I loved the Great Muta. He spit mist! Who couldn't love that? The Great Muta was the first heel I thought was cool.

Muta was so ahead of his time they could've done so much with him

I really think they dropped the ball not turning Muta face, he would of made a great story line ally for Sting. And the crowd wanted to cheer him, his ariel moves had never been seen in north america at this time.

Muta is a goddamn legend.I remember watching this in 6th grade when it happened. I was so pissed at the Horsemen for ditching Sting, but getting to root for Muta was awesome. He was amazing!

Clash of the Champions was way better than Saturday Nights Main Event

I live in Corpus Christi, Texas and I went to this event. I was only 13 years old then. I've got pictures of this event but I wasn't close enough to the front to get great photos. This footage really takes me back. My dad took me. I remember all the matches like it was yesterday. Also, Cactus Jack got into a fight with the drummer of the live band that played during commercial breaks. The drummer beat him up, it was hilarious.

The Great Muta was that dude back then!

I'd forgotten what a huge pop Muta wound up getting because of the Horsemen heel turn. They could have wound up turning Muta face if they wanted, but his contract was done and he was heading back to NJPW at the time.

4:34 .........best handspring elbow ever.

The moonsault by Muta was off the charts!

6:54 "But nobody home!" I remember watching this when I was 10 years old. I was a big Great Muta fan.

Just listen to the crowd going crazy for Mutoh !

This night has stuck in my memory since I was in 7th grade. The night Sting got hurt, and the night that I became the biggest Sting fan ever!

I remember watching the wcw clash of the champions live on tbs

Muta could have been as popular as Bruce Lee if marketed properly. Muta could have been world's champion and made a mainstream impact.

Pretty much after this, Muta was done in North America. One Muta was jobbed out at Starrcade and then lost his TV title, he leaves WCW and so goes my passion for wrestling.

It's too bad Muta was on his way back to Japan after this match. Did you hear the pop for him when he entered the ring. After Sting's injury, Flair and Muta could've headlined the PPV. Instead, WCW did a quickie face turn for Lex Luger and he and Flair wrestled yet again.

Great WRESTLING classic match. This is when the 4 Horsemen turned on Sting and kicked him off the Horsemen group. I also loved when the crowd was cheering the bad guys at the time.Great stuff!

Sting said in an interview that he knew he messed up his knee and told Wahoo McDaniel not to let Flair jump on him, as was planned. You can see Sting talking to Wahoo and the look of genuine concern on Wahoo's face.

Greatest crowd situation I've ever seen. Fans start the show loving the Horsemen then booing them out of the building in the main event and cheering the guys who started the night as the heels!

this brings back such great memories i was a kid in the audiance with my grandpa when they held this event in my hometown my mom was woking at the hospital she was waiting for sting with her autograph book sadly sting went to shoreline not memorial that night so no autograph:(

Dragon master just walks thru the horsemen to put his ring walk out gear out of the ring lol.

Grandes luchadores y leyenda de talla internacional todos ellos en los años 80 y 90 gracias

This is WAY more entertaining than the formulaic crap that WWE puts out...old school wrasslin'!!

The match was awesome, Jim Ross and Jim Cornette were the best on commentary.

pretty cool hearing both Jims speaking. FF couple of years and they would be doing it again during the Attitude era in WWF... WHO KNEW?!?!?

Watch at 5:03 - 5:04 how Sting takes a swing at Flair & accidentally hits Flying Brian in the face. Ouch!!

I really enjoyed watching my farther kendo what a legend

@stansimms72 -WrestleWar 90 is where Sting was supposed to bear Flair. But as said due to the injury Flair kept the title until July when he dropped it to Sting at GAB 90 in Baltimore.

lol Pillman gets slapped by Sting 5:03 RIP Flyin' Brian.

I watched this Clash and somewhere on VHS I have it. Flair s face @ 7:54 is vicious. (Pure hatred)Real tuff Rick, beat up a man on one leg ☺ Sting maybe you should have walked down and beat up all The Horsemen?

6:33 There's a suplex.

lol @5:56, why did Ole look like he forgot he was in the wrong corner and went to tag the wrong man? smh

How come everytime it gets good they sign off the air! lol

i missed a lot of the nwa-wcw from 1989 to around 1994 or 1995.

Anybody else here because of Grilling JR with Conrad?

Classic, cheers for the upload! NWA was awesome back then, as was most wrestling. I've always wanted to see this match. The end title music was also tex slazengers theme later in wcw. (Bob cook - Henry O godwin in wwf)

Always enjoyed watching Ole Anderson get his ass kicked!

The Great Muta was and is a great wrestler.

Muta could have been such an over face here. It's clear the fans go ballistic for him in particular during this match. Funny to that they want Sting so bad the fans hardly notice Buzz Sawyer fly off the cage.

I don't get why they didn't turn Muta face and have him team with Sting.. They where easily the two most over guys in the company in '89 after Flair and maybe the Steiners.

Glory days! Shout out from 2022!!

Yeah Muta was so over, but the just went ahead and jobbed him to death.

When Sting made his second rush up the cage that's when he ripped his patella tendon

buzz sawyer never quite made it, arrived before the big tv shows.

Damn that was cool, face first into the cage then the DDT!

Yep, I think that's pretty clear: he seemed completely fine between his first and second attempts to go up the cage, but as soon as he hits the cage the second time he stops, and once he's back on the ground he's noticeably limping. I also remember thinking, when I watched it at the time, that Flair clearly didn't know Sting was really hurt when he attacked him after the match, and you can tell that the other wrestlers are trying to keep him off Sting.

thanks for the note on the vid! people might have missed that one

He was there in the late 90's. He turned on Sonny Ono and joined Chono in nWo in like 97. He was basically working in Japan under that gimmick though, but made a few appearences in the states for WCW.

Hated Doug Dellinger for the longest time after that. Even if it was an accident. But easy come easy go because we got Robo Cop and El Egante (RIP) outta the deal. Then The Black Scorpion. The good ole days of professional wrestling, wooo!

Luger did. They did an emergency face turn for Luger and put him in against Flair. Luger and Sting from there aligned with others against the Horsemen.

@mrjohnnysmith I'm not sure why Sting would be a dumbass for injuring his knee. Wrestling injuries happen all the time. Especially when it's someone like Sting who did a lot of high flying maneuvers.

Actually The Great Muta/Muto is one of only two men to be The NWA World Heavyweight Champion, The IWGP World Heavyweight Champion and The AJPW Triple Crown World Heavyweight Champion. The other is the late great Shinya Hashimoto.

Pillmàn got ah boo boo as well !👀

True.

so true. They really missed the boat on him.

The Horsemen actually expanded to 5 Members. both Barry Windham and Sid Viscious became Horsemen.

Is every one a heel in this match ?

Sawyer was the guy that called himself training Undertaker when he was getting started.He said the only training the he & along with others received from Sawyer were wrestling holds & the basics.When it was time for them to train in the ring,Sawyer always had excuses about ring.When Taker went to get his money back,Sawyer was long gone but he left his 2 Rotweilers & Taker took them.

man i was there that back in the day in my hometown sting got injured that night and had to go to the hopital my mom was working out there i was begining her to get his autograph

Watched the Liger/Muta match last night. WCW really screwed up by not using The Great Muta properly when he was there. Just think about the series of matches Muta and Flair could have had or Muta and The Enforcer.

this would have been a great night to do the "dusty angle" since his knee was already broken imagine the heat they would have gotten if they did that

Don't forget about Buzz Sawyer ripping off Magnum T.A. for a big chunk of change for training. I heard something like $35,000, but I could be wrong on that figure.

They were billed as brothers; first were Gene & Ole then in 85 Arn was starting his career and then when Ric Flair discovered him Arn & Ole not looked a little bit alike and had similar in ring styles they were put together. Get yourself a copy of the WWE's Four Horsemen DVD and you'll get the whole story.

When Sting climbed the cage the second time, he hurt his knee really bad and ended having surgery. When he returned at the Bash, he won the title from Flair.

I also believe, if memory serves me, that they used an angle that the Horsemen jumped Sting in a parking lot to explain his injury.

true muta is a great wrestler they used sting well they shud of fought 4 the wcw title

yeah, brian got his clock cleaned and you could see him holding his jaw after they pulled him down!

lol I love how they tell the viewer to "call the hotline" to find out what happens next. I wonder how many people paid money to call and listen to somebody read off a script about what's supposed to be happening next. "I can't believe we're going off the air!"

@AMQ82 TNA uses a cage that is kind of similar now that they have the 4-sided ring but the problem with that is their ring is kind of small as it is and that cage just makes it smaller IMO.

i think this was with j tex corp with the late gary hart

And add the Russian nightmare Nikita Koloff and the Russian Bear Ivan Koloff and Paul Orndorff WWE2K18

Horsemen were super super over.Talk about a heel pop.

Sting said in an interview that his knee cap broke off and went up into his thigh. yikes

ole almost broke buzz sawyers neck on this and buzz should have took libertys with him

pillman takes shots from sting at 5:04 and 5:17 and then seems to grab him a littler strong in his restraining right after second shot.

Wished we had cable during this time

That means you missed Keji Muto aka the Great Muta becone the NWA World Heavyweight Champion, the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion (New Japan Pro Wrestling), the AJPW Triple Crown Champion (All Japan Pro Wrestling). He became the first man to win the two most important singles titles in Japan at that time.

@zaius316 Thanks, I was trying to remember who he was :)

Judo chops?! Judo is grappling not striking. Announcers sure did know how to insult Japanese wrestlers at the time, which is why Muta never got the face push he deserved. At least Muta won the IWGP strap two years later against Masa Chono in one of the best matches of the 90's.

All those wrestlers did wrestle in WCW

bad booking. Too much Dragon Jabroni, too little Muta.

Not since the Shield / Wyatt match has it been this good.

This match was kinda sad. It could have been great but basically turned into a qucik match to finish the storyline.

@ErieParties yes.

@seddrock That's why I can't really say RIP Buzz Sawyer because there's some people that will not miss him.

Sting blew out his knee trying to run up the cage.He stayed having knee injuries

@ErieParties i think the horsemen came into this clash as face. they kicked sting out in the first segment to turn heel.

Please add these wrestlers to WWE 2k18 Buzz Sawyer the great muta the Legion of Doom the Road Warriors The Steiner Brothers jushin Thunder liger demolition the powers of pain rugged Ronnie Garvin Dino Bravo fabulous maraca Barry Windham tully Blanchard Arn Anderson

this was the night sting injured his knee

No Flair dont Sting Blew his knee out.

Dragon....master?

sting hurts his knee on the cage

yupp

And as a special request please add Bruiser Brody to and Abdullah the Butcher to WWE 2k18

Pillman got popped in the face.

LMAO u see sting accidetly hit Brian Pillman int he face at 5:01

supposedly going up the cage the 2nd time