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WrestleWar '89: Music City Showdown

WrestlingFeuds documents two storylines that ran through WrestleWar '89: Music City Showdown, held on May 7, 1989. One of them reached its blow-off here.

Storylines that paid off here

Golden Era·NWA·1989

Nature Boy Ric Flair vs. Ricky The Dragon Steamboat (Jan 1989 – May 1989)

Steamboat's surprise return from a year away sparked a three-match series for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, at Chi-Town Rumble, Clash of the Champions VI, and WrestleWar, that Dave Meltzer rated five stars three times over and is still routinely called the best in-ring trilogy in wrestling history.

Ric Flair · Ricky Steamboat · Terry Funk · Eddie Gilbert

Storylines that built through here

Golden Era·NWA/WCW·1989

Nature Boy Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (May 1989 – Nov 1989)

Minutes after Ric Flair closed out his trilogy with Ricky Steamboat, ringside judge Terry Funk asked for a title shot, got turned down, and piledrove Flair through a table, opening a six-month war that ran through a plastic bag over Flair's head and closed with an I Quit match the Wrestling Observer named 1989's Feud of the Year.

Ric Flair · Terry Funk · Gary Hart · Sting · The Great Muta

Wrestlers involved

Key events