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WCW began the new year once again with another WrestleWar show. Ten matches were presented, beginning with Ricky Morton, Tommy Rich and the Junkyard Dog defending the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship against Big Cat and the State Patrol. Following that, Bobby Eaton defeated Brad Armstrong.

A joshi tag match would play out next as Itsuki Yamazaki and Mami Kitamura beat Miki Handi and Miss A. Dusty Rhodes' son Dustin made his PPV debut with a victory against Buddy Landel, followed by the Young Pistols beating the Royal Family. Terry Taylor, now a member of the York Foundation, beat the Z-Man while Big Van Vader and Stan Hansen fought to a double disqualification.

Lex Luger successfully defended his WCW United States Heavyweight against Dan Spivey while the Freebirds beat Doom for the WCW World Tag Team Championship. In the main event, Sting, Brian Pillman and the Steiner Brothers faced off against the Four Horsemen (Ric Flair/Paul Orndorff/Barry Windham) and Larry Zbyszko. The Horsemen/Zbyszko team won after Brian Pillman was hit with a piledriver by Orndorff, who went for a second piledriver when El Gigante called for a surrender on Pillman's behalf.


WrestleMania VII was a landmark moment as Randy “Macho Man” Savage enters his fourth consecutive WrestleMania main event. The show held thirteen matches on the card, headlined by Savage/Warrior II. The opening match saw the Rockers defeat the team of the Barbarian and Haku followed by the Texas Tornado defeating Dino Bravo.

The British Bulldog, Davey Boy Smith, began his solo run in the World Wrestling Federation by facing off against a heel Sgt. Slaughter. Slaughter, long respected as an American hero and included as a member of GI Joe, was brought back to the WWF as a jingoistic parody of American patriotism, declaring the crowd traitors for cheering a “tea-sipping limey bastard” like Davey Boy. Davey Boy overcame the Sarge, hitting the Running Powerslam to win.

Meanwhile, the Hart Foundation defended their WWF World Tag Team Championship against the Nasty Boys to a losing effort. Jake Roberts, recovering from a blinding spray of the Model Rick Martel's Arrogance, challenged Martel to a Blindfold Match, winning after catching the Model with a DDT. Jimmy Snuka defeated the Warlord while in a move many question, Demolition faced off not against the newly arriving Road Warriors, but the Japanese team of Genichiro Tenryu and Koji Kitao. Adding to that, Smash and Crush lost the match to Tenryu and Kitao.

The Big Boss Man challenged WWF Intercontinental Champion Mr. Perfect, winning by disqualification while Earthquake squashed Greg Valentine. Rather than facing Demolition, the Road Warriors (called the "Legion of Doom" in the WWF) destroyed Power & Glory in under a minute.

Backed by Ricky Steamboat, Virgil broke free of his former employer Ted DiBiase, beating him in the ring after a Russian Leg Sweep to set up for a diving crossbody. Steamboat, who had been at ringside for the last two WrestleManias, has been contemplating his future in the WWF.

After a quick match of the Mountie defeating Tito Santana, the Ultimate Warrior defended his WWF World Heavyweight Championship against Randy Savage in a match where both men put their career on the line and the loser would be forced to retire. The two put on the best match of Warrior's career, telling a dramatic story of two men who want the title so bad that they're willing to risk everything. While not a shine on Savage's more technical bouts, the crowd eats up every move hit, every near fall until Savage goes up and hits five consecutive elbow drops on the Warrior, putting him away for good and becoming a two-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion.