The main event of the show was a steel cage match with Ric Flair defending the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Lex Luger.

When the Samoan Swat Team did not show up for the television taping on April 9, where they were supposed to film the beginnings of the storyline that would lead to the match, WCW replaced them with The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) instead.

[7] Due to the injury, the plans for WCW's 1990 WrestleWar PPV had to be changed drastically, with NWA United States Champion Lex Luger, a former friend of Sting's, receiving the championship match instead.

[4] In the weeks following WrestleWar WCW officials announced that Lex Luger would receive another opportunity to wrestle for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Capital Combat, this time in a steel cage match to prevent the Four Horsemen from interfering.

In the weeks leading up to Capital Combat, the Horsemen introduced both Barry Windham and Sid Vicious as part of their group, with Ole Anderson acting more as a manager from that point on.

[1][8] Manager Jim Cornette was forced to be confined in a steel cage located at ringside while his team, the Midnight Express, wrestled against Brian Pillman and Tom Zenk.

The over 20 minute long match ended after Stan Lane kicked Zenk in the back of the head, sending him into an inside cradle pinning hold by Bobby Eaton to secure the victory and the championship.

During the segment the Four Horsemen came to ringside to attack Sting, locking him in the steel cage that Jim Cornette had been confined to earlier in the night.

[1][8] When Theodore Long returned to the arena after his earlier loss he had his head covered by a bandana to hide the fact that he had all his hair shaved off.

During the referee's pre-match check he discovered that Woman had an illegal object hidden in her glove, which he proceeded to confiscate prior to the match starting and ejected her from the cage.

At that point of the match, the cage was raised up enough for Barry Windham to enter the ring and attack Luger to cause a disqualification, allowing Flair to remain champion.

Moments later Sting came back to the arena to help fight off the Four Horsemen, soon joined by the 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m)tall El Gigante who was making his first appearance on a WCW show.

[1][8] The segment with RoboCop saving Sting has often been cited as one of the worst moments in WCW's history and one of the events that inspired the creation of the website WrestleCrap.

Dunn rated the event as 8.5 out of 10, stating "Most people remember this for the laughable Robocop segments, but the wrestling was stellar on this show".