Bash at the Beach (1995)

Bash at the Beach (1995)
Promotional poster featuring Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Randy Savage and Big Van Vader.
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling
Date	July 16, 1995[1]
City	Huntington Beach, California[1]
Venue	The Beach[1]
Attendance	9,500[2]
Tagline(s)	An Event So Hot, They Had To Put It On The Beach!
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The 1995 Bash at the Beach was the second Bash at the Beach professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on July 16, 1995 on the beach in Huntington Beach, California.

Ten professional wrestling matches took place at the event, nine of which were broadcast live on pay-per-view. In the main event, Hulk Hogan defeated Big Van Vader to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, marking Vader's final WCW pay-per-view match. Also featured was Sting defeating Meng to retain the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, and Harlem Heat defeating The Nasty Boys and The Blue Bloods to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship.

Scenes featuring Hulk Hogan, Big Van Vader, Randy Savage, Ric Flair and Kevin Sullivan filmed at the event formed part of season 6 episode 17 of Baywatch, also titled "Bash at the Beach", broadcast in February of the following year. As of 2014 the event is available on the WWE Network.^[3]

Bash at the Beach (1995) was the last WCW PPV to take place before the Monday Night War era of September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001, during which WWF Monday Night Raw/WWF Raw Is War and WCW Monday Nitro competed for ratings in a weekly Monday night time slot, which is now widely seen in retrospect as having been a "golden age" of pro wrestling.