On this date in WCW history: Abdullah The Butcher fries in the electric chair

by Jesse Holland on Oct 27, 2011 10:00 AM EDT in History

On October 27, 1991, WCW unveiled the "Chamber of Horrors,' aptly named for how horrible this insipid melee was despite featuring the team of Sting, El Gigante, Rick and Scott Steiner taking on Big Van Vader, Cactus Jack, Abdullah The Butcher and The Diamond Studd.

It was the opening match at Halloween Havoc and damn near killed the heat for the entire show.

The biggest issue was that fans just couldn't make heads or tails of what was happening inside the chamber -- even less so when the electric chair was lowered.

And speaking of the hot seat, the only way to win the match was to strap your opponent in and flip the switch, death row style. In other words, the usual classy stuff from WCW.

Abdullah took one for the team but I had to imagine even a guy who blades as much as he did had to be just a wee bit scared with all that electricity and pyrotechnics shooting off around him.

Any Cagesiders out there unlucky enough to witness this clusterf--k as it went down?

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I've seen it on tape.

There was a period of my life where I watched pretty much every WCW/NWA PPV ever put on VHS up until the middle/late 90’s.

I haven’t seen this one in god knows how long, but I remember it being more of an offensively silly match then an offensive match. Kind of like how WCW would always theme Halloween Havoc and Bash at the Beach with silly props. Impossible to take seriously, but still has a sort of campy charm to it.

I always dug WCW’s cage they used in the late 80’s, early 90’s or the “THUNDERDOME” as they dubbed it. For all intents and purposes it was HITC before HITC existed, just without a top they curved the bars at the top inwards so you couldn’t escape.

by Hawk52 on Oct 27, 2011 11:20 AM EDT reply actions