WON reports of the upcoming Clash of Champions 1/21 "The Patriots have been pulled from the card so the six man tag team will be Young Pistols and Terry Taylor vs Brian Pillman and Tom Zenk and Marcus Alexander Bagwell (which, if given the chance, could actually steal the show)...." (WON 1/20/92).

As things eventuated it wasn't 'given the chance' - with Zenk pulled from the team, and WON 2/3/92 reporting "Freebirds, Zenk and Pillman ..have limited road dates although all will be working regularly on television. "

Van Hammer and Oz  (Kevin Nash) are recognized as major flops; Nash is reincarnated as "Vinnie Vegas" with Harley Race as manager: Scott Norton is coming in; Lex Luger is leaving  and Barry Windham will be turned heel to replace him, Dusty Rhodes will be back on TV now that Herd is gone.
 

Tom Zenk and Marcus Bagwell slated to form a tag team. Rhodes is still teaming with Steamboat and Windham and working programs against Anderson, Zbyszko and Austin. Bischoff begins to move up the announcing tree replacing Gordon Solie.

This was a last minute arranged match.  WON 3/9/92 reported - "Tom Zenk and Van Hammer beat Vinnie Vegas and Richard Morton in 12.00 when Zenk pinned Morton with a sunset flip coming out of the corner. Zenk was subbing for Johnny B. Badd who was embroiled in a contract dispute and pulled from the card at the last minute. Morton replaced Mr Hughes with the cover reason being that it would make it a better match but actually Hughes was pulled from the show as punishment for some kind of non-drug related misdeed. It should have been okay with Zenk and Morton doing all the work and just letting the green boys in for quick power spots. Instead Hammer and Vegas (Nash) worked most of the match. At times it was surprisingly okay, but most of the time that wasn't the case. There were a few botched spots and the brawling back and forth was terrible. After the match Zenk and Vegas yelled at each other and it seemed like Zenk was issuing a challenge. "

A reader writes the match was "not that bad."
 

WON 3/16/92 Meltzer reports "I hope Eric Bischoff gets his game show hosting job because he's just so annoying to watch on television." Pillman getting good reviews for his work with Liger and there is talk of making them a tag team. A reader writes "If only Brian Pillman's dad was the booker."
 

Meltzer concludes that "There is such a fear of the truth within wrestling that many wrestlers have looked the other way for years at genuine criminal activity because of the fear that it may hurt the business..... When Bruiser Brody died in 1988 in Puerto Rico, the immediate reaction of the wrestlers in the dressing room who witnessed the incident was to not go to the authorities because if they testified against their booker they would lose their job... A murder was committed and they were more concerned about protecting the business and the jobs...My read of the big picture is that this [WWF] is a company with a mindset so deep that you are either with us or you are our enemy..."

Pat Patterson is named by former ring announcer Murray Hodgson as having arranged his sacking after turning down Pattrson's request for sexual favors. This story runs in all the major media through April -May 1992.
 

Watts has been out of the business since selling UWF to Crockett after a failed attempt at going national. Meltzer warns "Watts was always an autonomous leader and now he'll be part of a corporate structure in a corporation which knows little about the nuances of the wrestling business"(WON 05/18/92).
Meltzer (05/25/92) warns Watts  "the younger breed of wrestlers spoon fed on a different brand of wrestling may not be motivated by the same brand of psychology" that worked for him in the old days. Nevertheless Meltzer predicts " Expect guaranted big money contracts to be replaced by the old style of working based on the house, similar to the WWF."
Morton and Mr Hughes are advised their contracts will not be renewed but they will be used on a nightly basis. 

But on the night, the match is rated the best singles match of the card and Meltzer reports - "a 15.29 slow builder... they built it into a great match and it was a top-flight show from that point forward." 
(WON 5/25/92).

Meltzer continues 
" Zenk had new ring music even less catchy than his previous music. It started slow but built into a great match. Lots of reversing of spots and unique twists of existing moves. Very Japanese style with all the near falls, some of which looked like the finish. It was another success of the argument that today's fans will accept and react to a match without a heel if the action and psychology are there. Whether you can put it on top and have it sell tickets may be a different story, but as a mid-card change of pace these Pillman title matches against faces like Zenk, Liger and Armstrong have been a major success. One thing this group needs to do if it wants to work serious style matches such as this on a regular basis is to focus on getting a wide variety of submission holds over. It'll give the wrestlers a wider repertoire of things they can do to get heat and help fans better understand the psychology of the early part of the match. Zenk was pinned after missing a dropkick off the top rope after several near falls, a few of which looked like the real finish. Three and a quarter stars."