WWE: 5 classic Great American Bash moments  NXT will need to live up to

#1 The Outsiders don't work for WWE, destroy Eric Bischoff (1996)

While we need to talk about how this was a watershed moment in the history of pro wrestling - and even WWE admits it is - there's something else that needs to be mentioned.

This was a damn great PPV.

The Great American Bash 1996 had some brilliant matches, including a Falls Count Anywhere match between Chris Benoit and Kevin Sullivan (no relation), a WCW Cruiserweight Championship match where Dean Malenko retained against Rey Mysterio, and Sting took on (and defeated) Steven Regal (aka WWE NXT commissioner William Regal).

Outside of the ring, Eric Bischoff conducted an interview with the Outsiders - Scott Hall and Kevin Nash - who had been terrorizing WCW for weeks. First, Bischoff - in an effort to head off a lawsuit from WWE - as the two newcomers if they worked for WCW's rival - to which they insisted they did not.

Once that nonsense was out of the way, Hall and Nash reiterated their challenge to WCW - the three of them (the third being their mystery partner that would turn out to be Hulk Hogan) against WCW's three best. The two Outsiders demanded that Bischoff tell them who WCW's team members were going to be, but Bischoff wouldn't budge.

So, Nash picked up Bischoff and powerbombed him off the stage.

Nowadays, that's not a big deal. In fact, it wasn't that long afterwards that the Dudley Boyz were doing the same to the likes of Mae Young. But, at the time, before the general public knew Eric Bischoff's actual position with the company - and even before Stone Cold Steve Austin hit Vince McMahon with a Stunner for the first time - this was huge.

This began the storytelling that helped WCW overtake WWE in the ratings for... a long time.

Of course, we all know how it eventually turned out.