This is one helluva a great match. I think in 1988 NWA I had it in my top 5 matches.It's the famous instant replay finish one. These guys were awesome. Windham is a great face and Tully is a heels heel. We see Windham take it to Tully early. He nails him with sweet punches and some of his high impact offense. Tully would cut him off and work the leg. Tully is great at destroying Barry's leg.Of course sells it Randy Savage big.He's so good at putting over the leg damage. Barry is getting hope spots, and Tully would cut him off by going back to the leg. Eventually, we build to a hot action packed finish. Though the finish was what it was. We get a fun brawl post match.

Western States Heavyweight Title: Barry Windham © vs. Tully Blanchard (1/15/88)

Windham really takes it to Tully early on and Tully is bumping and selling his ass off to make Barry look good. Tully though is a grizzled veteran and uses some roughhouse tactics to subdue Barry or so he thought because Barry would find a way to get back on offense. It's interesting how they go to Crockett & Luger standing in the aisle during the match for an interview. Tommy Young would get bumped and that allowed Tully to get on the advantage as he wrapped Barry's left leg around the ringpost then used a steel chair right on the ankle. Tully then plays king of the mountain keeping Windham on the floor before he gets back in the ring for Tully to really work over Barry's knee. Windham does a great job of selling the injury while trying to get some offense in as well showing how it was hindering him from doing anything. Windham would get a sleeper hold but Tully would use that to get a kneebreaker to stop that flurry. Tully then broke a front piledriver which was interesting but Barry wouldn't die. Tully would get the Figure-Four and held it for a while before Barry would reverse it but the damage was done although again Windham wouldn't die and did whatever he could to stay alive. Windham would then make a superhuman comeback as they started counting down the minutes of the match but he tried for a Superplex and his leg gave out. Windham hit a big flying lariat though but Dillon would go over and rung the bell with 2 minutes left. Luger then ran over to the table and everyone told Tommy Young that Dillon rang the bell. Young then watched it on the monitor and saw what happened then restarted the match. Tully then snuck up in Windham with an inside cradle but Luger ran in the ring to stop the count and the brawl was on as Luger & Tully brawled, Dillon KOed Windham with his shoe then Arn & Flair ran out and attacked Luger with Arn dropping him with a DDT. Flair wanted Windham to help them then a fan jumped in the ring and they attacked him and this was a wild crazy scene as Sting joined in to run off the Horsemen. Windham would then go watch the replay and Luger said that he made a mistake in the past and they shook hands with Windham forgiving him. Tremendous match and tremendous angle as well makes this a definite nomination.