NWA The Great American Bash '88: The Price for Freedom
The Great American Bash '88 was the fourth annual Great American Bash professional wrestling event produced by Jim Crockett Promotions under the NWA banner and the first to be produced as a pay-per-view event. It took place on July 10, 1988 at The Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. The main event was a standard wrestling match for the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship between Ric Flair and Lex Luger for the title. Featured matches were Barry Windham versus Dusty Rhodes for the NWA US Heavyweight Championship, The Road Warriors, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin & Ron Garvin versus Kevin Sullivan, Mike Rotunda, Al Perez, The Russian Assassin & Ivan Koloff in a Tower of Doom match, The Fantastics versus The Midnight Express for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship and Horsemen Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard versus Sting & Nikita Koloff for the NWA Tag Team Championship.
Release Date
July 10, 1988Runtime
148 minGenres
ActionDirected by
Jim Crockett Jr.Written by
Virgil RunnelsLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7eoproQ9tY4nmAiWhehC5hQCWw7.jpg)
Cast
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/rwltODIBkGOwUmaFiUelIHVZIgd.jpg)
Larry Pfohl
Lex Luger![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/tzAAtHkbJ9lsdOuOANMCuM2IOku.jpg)
Ric Flair
Himself![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/vqWIhVPhV55hguGeUKF4jfYaj2f.jpg)
Barry Windham
Himself![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xtoKPGKaP3rCSa9elrJgdst7AJ4.jpg)
Virgil Runnels
Dusty Rhodes![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ntFXzcevD9SVqwyt4IheFJXoh6a.jpg)
Michael James Hegstrand
Road Warrior Hawk![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/koRX4usMawgxQTgkdmIBvZ7t4MT.jpg)
Joe Laurinaitis
Road Warrior Animal![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/boJ2drkWTGIXLR1dXko314AV9t5.jpg)
Roger Barnes
Ron Garvin![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/8wcm5o3LlaMJNH1LMwkGBDKQslF.jpg)
Kevin Sullivan
Himself![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/fjx6Qde9eWynJ8fvy5n2loq8zdn.jpg)
Mike Rotunda
Himself![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/2OqAbUjzKimI5uZCC8wJqqN35S6.jpg)
Oreal Perras
Ivan Koloff![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/45c7LywqkMzSoSQB4iYU5v7JGdu.jpg)
Bobby Eaton
Bobby Eaton![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/nKOxslHqSqbOCGXezVRy8H5pOWb.jpg)
Stanfield Lane
Stan Lane![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/gGI86ox3rnhxiWAiMEDhnkR0p9u.jpg)
James Hines
Bobby Fulton![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/vJ1LdIAt6z0zqXtd0kTDrH7sb0F.jpg)
Tom Couch
Tommy Rogers![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zDpLCFqbLVqV9QiZuicelCkpCDE.jpg)
Martin Lunde
Arn Anderson![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/i7nQOJniodzBDsbQCYbjXdOaWB0.jpg)
Tully Blanchard
Himself![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ai62PKs6042tSJJWlZ8TtDl5Ofr.jpg)
Steve Borden
Sting![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/sFIABYEQYgBcKamSkdWigLnnvv.jpg)
Scott Simpson
Nikita KoloffVideos
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7EG3p3D8bOk/maxresdefault.jpg)
Great American Bash 1988 Commercial
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