WWE SummerSlam 1991

1991
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WWE SummerSlam '91 was the fourth annual SummerSlam. It took place on August 26, 1991 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. it is remembered for the on-screen wedding of Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth, dubbed "A Match Made in Heaven" by announcer Vince McMahon. This was contrasted with "A Match Made in Hell", which was a handicap tag team match between WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior against Sgt. Slaughter, General Adnan and Colonel Mustafa. Among the other on-screen highlights of the event was "The Legion of Doom" The Road Warriors defeating The Nasty Boys to win the WWE World Tag Team Championship. The team became the only tag team in wrestling history to have held the WWE World Tag Team Championship, the NWA World Tag Team Championship, and the AWA World Tag Team Championship. Another highlight was Bret "The Hitman" Hart going for his first singles championship in WWE when he faced Mr. Perfect for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.

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callanvass Live from NY, NY; MSGAttendance: 20,000Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and Bobby HeenanRicky Steamboat, The Texas Tornado, The British Bulldog Vs Power & Glory and The Warlord (W/Slick)Bulldog gets the biggest pop out of the three faces. The faces win when Steamboat pins Roma after a flying cross body from the top. This is a fun opener and a good way to start the show. There were impressive spots, like The Bulldog hitting a vertical suplex on The Warlord. **3/4Intercontinental ChampionshipMr. Perfect (C) (W/The Coach) Vs Bret HartBobby Heenan had retired from managing at this point. Bret wins the title by making Perfect submit with a Sharpshooter. This is one of the best matches in wrestling history, it rarely gives you a chance to breathe. What's even more amazing is that Perfect's back was legitimately in bad shape with a bad back, as proved when he started favoring it and walking gingerly. If that's the type of amazing quality we get when he's injured, it's downright frightening to think what these two would be capable of if Perfect was fully healthy. Bret kicking out of the Perfect-Plex is a pretty cool moment as well. How on earth do you follow this? I almost feel sorry for the other wrestlers.***** (5 stars out of 5)The Bushwhackers (W/Andre The Giant) Vs The Natural Disasters (W/Jimmy Hart)This match is one way to cool the crowd down after such a classic. The Natural Disasters win when Earthquake hits his sitdown splash. The Natural Disasters try to attack Andre after the match, but The Legion of Doom saves the day. This was a terrible match, as to be expected. Even Andre's presence couldn't liven it up. "Bobby Heenan had a great line, though. "If I was managing The Buswhackers, I'd commit suicide"*Bobby Heenan shows up at Hogan's dressing room with the REAL World Title, challenging Hogan to a match on Flair's behalf. Hogan slams the door in Heenan's face.Million Dollar ChampionshipTed Dibiase (C) (W/Sensational Sherri) Vs VirgilDibiase is initially disqualified after Sherri nails Virgil with her shoe, but the ref changes his mind and orders Sherri to the back, as well as the match to continue. Virgil wins the Million Dollar belt by ramming Dibiase's head into the exposed turnbuckle, which Dibiase used to try to cheat. The match itself is a little overbooked, but the story Dibiase and Virgil told really carries this one. The fans desperately wanted to see Dibiase get his comeuppance and Virgil winning the title provided a memorable moment.**1/2Jailhouse MatchThe Big Bossman Vs The Mountie (W/Jimmy Hart)The loser of this match goes directly to jail for a night. Bossman wins with an Alabama slam. This match was fairly boring for the most part. Despite the stipulation, I wasn't really able to get into it. Maybe I'm a stickler, but I didn't find The Mountie being hauled off to jail all that funny either. *1/4Up Next are a plethora of interviews that involve Bret Hart, The Big Bossman, The Natural Disasters, Ted Dibiase, The Nasty Boys, Jimmy Hart, Sensational Sherri, The Legion of Doom, Sgt. Slaughter, Col. Mustafa, General Adnan, Sid Justice, and a segment where The Mountie is suffering on his way to jail.Tag Team Championship (No count out, no DQ)The Nasty Boys (C) (W/Jimmy Hart) Vs The Legion of DoomLOD wins the titles with the Doomsday Device. This was nothing more than a brawl for the most part and a fairly average one at that. At least this match played to both of their strengths, which is brawling. LOD winning the titles makes this the 3rd title that's changed hands at this PPV*3/4The Mountie is dragged by cops into a Jail cell.I.R.S Vs Greg "The Hammer" ValentineValentine was a face at this point and near the end of his WWE tenure. I.R.S wins by countering The Figure Four into a small package. This was a pretty uneventful match that the crowd was flat for. Valentine was past his prime and couldn't be depended on to carry a match anymore. *3 on 2 Handicapped MatchHulk Hogan & The Ultimate Warrior Vs Sgt. Slaughter, General Adnan, and Col. MustafaSid Justice is the guest referee for this match. For those who don't know, Mustafa is The Iron Sheik. Hogan wins with a legdrop after throwing powder in Slaughter's face. Afterwards, Hogan poses with Sid Justice. This was a pretty bad main event. It featured no excitement at all and three heels that really couldn't go all that well anymore. The big storyline here was if Sid would be impartial or not. The Ultimate Warrior would be suspended for arguing with Vince about money and wouldn't appear in the WWF again until Wrestlemania 8. Slaughter would also turn face not too long after this.*Macho Man and Elizabeth's wedding ends the show. It ends without any shenanigans. I'm not so sure this should end a PPV, but it was sweet enough. I love Macho and Elizabeth so it didn't bother me.Overall, Summerslam 91 is worthwhile, but it takes a bit of a tumble after the first few matches. The faces dominated the entire PPV with only two heels getting a victory during the show. Not to mention that we also got three title changes as well. The main reason to see this show is the absolute classic between Bret Hart and Mr. Perfect. It's one of the best matches you'll ever see.
amanwhorocks 1. The Dragon (embarassing Steamboat's gimmick)/Tornado Texas/ The British Bulldog Vs. Hercules/Warlord/Paul Roma - First match was fine. 6/10 2. Intercontinental Championship: Bret Hart Vs. Champ-Mr. Perfect - Outstanding match full of match, Hennig is perfect at selling Bret's moves 9/10 3. Natural Disasters Vs. 2 mentally ill WoodCrackers (Real Natural Disasters) - It hurts to watch match with these 2 idiots. At least they ate lost. 4/10 4. The Million Dollar Man Vs. Virgil - Grudge match 5.5/10 5. Jailhouse Match: The Mountie Vs. Big Stiff Man - Bossman has nothing to do on PPV. Unsympathetic piece of terrible skills wrestler. Punch, chop, basic slam match. That could afford only big Superstars. 4/10 Piper's appearance + jail house bullshit -5/10 6. WWF tag team championship: Legion of Doom Vs. Champs-Nasty Boys - Funny, champs, came to the ring first. Decent match. 6/10 7. I.R.S.(formerly known as Mike Rotunda) Vs. Greg Valentine 5/108. Sgt. Slaughter/Col. Mustafa (Iron Sheik)/General Adnan Vs. Ultimate Warrior/Hulk Hogan - Classic superstar match, nothing special. 5/10 Randy Savage and Elizabeth also get "married".
bh_tafe3 "The Real American" Hulk Hogan and his fighting for American rights against Iraqi sympathisers Sgt Slaughter and General Adnan had gotten very old by this point. But, to flog the dead horse the WWE bought back former Champion the Iron Sheik, renamed as Col Mustafa, to team up against the "Real American" Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior.Now I haven't picked on any of the other earlier wrestling story lines from 1985- 1990, because they worked. But for a young Australian this storyline was crap. The Iraq war was a non event and well and truly over by August 1991.The night started off with a six man tag match won by Ricky Steamboat (returning to the WWE after a long tour of duty in the NWA) The British Bulldog and Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erich, over The Warlord, and Power and Glory Hercules and Paul Roma.Next up came one of the bets matches ever seen in the WWE as Bret Hart defeated Mr Perfect to win the Intercontinental Championship. Perfect was working with an injured back and put in a sensational performance. Hart was on song as always. These two had tremendous chemistry and this was probably the best of their PPV matches.Next up we see Andre the Giant in a backstage interview with the Bushwackers in his final PPV appearance as he would die later that year. The interview didn't help them though as The Natural Disasters Earthquake and Typhoon picked up a comprehensive victory over the Bushwackers, who were starting to get pretty old.Next up we saw some of the build to the main event with Bobby Heenan standing outside Hulk's dressing room. Following this is an interview with Ted DiBiase as he guarantees all of us he is going to wipe the floor with his former slave Virgil and walk out with his million dollar title belt. He was wrong. Virgil got the win and Million Dollar Belt was his.Next came a jailhouse match won by he Big Bossman over The Mountie. The downside of this was we had to watch some "Comedy" scenes of The Mountie being arrested and thrown in jail. Pretty over the top and quite dated.In our next match the Legion of Doom Hawk and Animal defeated The Nasty Boys to win the Tag Team Championships. If memory serves I think this was the first time they had been tag champs in the WWE.We get another shot of The Mountie in jail and then Irwin R Shyster defeating Greg Valentine, who was cast as a good guy in this match for some reason.Next up is our main event as Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior defeated Sgt Slaughter, Col Mustafa and General Adnan with Sid Justice as the guest referee. It had been a running story all night that Justice had supposedly been bought out by the Iraqis, but this was not the case and Justice and Hogan posed together at matches end. This was the Warrior's last PPV match in the WWE for some time and it nearly didn't happen after Warrior had threatened to leave the building if he was not given bonuses he was owed from months before. The match sucked. The angle sucked. THank goodness it was finished.The Main Event of the show though was Randy Savage's "wedding" to Miss Elizabeth. Savage, despite not being allowed to wrestle after losing a retirement match to the Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania VII had stayed on the show as a commentator and come back to the good side. He'd proposed to Elizabeth in the build up and they are given a proper wedding here with no catches. This would eventually lead to Savage breaking his retirement, which wasn't a bad thing.This PPV had some good stuff on it, DiBiase/ Virgil and Hart/ Perfect, but not much else and it really has aged badly.
wwfhistoryguy *SPOILERS*Until the last three segments, this one was really good.The opening six-man match was a good way of putting over two guys in one match. I say "two" because all the Texas Tornado did was punch. But it took the British Bulldog a year to go over at least that well again, and The Dragon was gone soon after.The big reason the Bret-Perfect match is so memorable is that it was Bret's first great high-profile match. He has said that most wrestlers had their best match against him, and no one can deny it.\The Bushwhackers put up a great fight against the Disasters, and the spot with the Legion of Doom afterward was almost as big a highlight as what the LOD did later on that afternoon.The Big Bossman always was an underrated performer. He and Jake the Snake are the only wrestlers who I remember could have a good match with the late Hercules. Here, he dominated the Mountie, but the real show went on afterward. Look closely and you'll see the Mountie give a jailer the finger. And the end of his segment is too funny for words. Kudos to Jacques Rougeau in selling this spot so well.While the LOD's match against the Nasty Boys was good, why did they bother making it a "No Disqualification, No Countout" match? The Nasty Boys make sure to do all of their cheating behind the ref's back, and Animal spends most of the match on the apron waiting for Hawk's tag. He would not have been disqualified for running in! That's the whole point!After that, we get a mediocre match between Valentine and IRS, followed by the worst main event in SummerSlam history. That includes the one from '89. Then the ludicrous wedding, which was an elaborate setup for the major feuds of the next few months.So rent it, but just hit "stop" after LOD's match.