The show included two main events: Ricky Steamboat and Rick Rude faced off in a 30-minute Iron Man Challenge as the culmination of a long running feud, and The Steiner Brothers defended their WCW World Tag Team Championship against Terry Gordy and Steve Williams.

The show took place only four days after WCW held Clash of the Champions XIX, free to cable subscribers.

[2] The show was one of the first major events held after Bill Watts had been put in charge of WCW and would be the first show where a number of Watts' new rules would be enforced, including any move that included jumping off the top rope would result in a disqualification.

[4] After Bill Watts took over WCW, several of his old-school Mid-South Wrestling rules were put into place, including removal of the mats around the ring, coming off the top rope became an automatic disqualification, and maintained the old NWA rule about throwing an opponent over the top rope was also an automatic disqualification.

The "off the top rope" rule did not apply to NWA-sanctioned WCW matches, e.g. the NWA World Tag Team title tournament).