Tony Schiavonie is on commentary, its just surreal seeing him on a WWE show, he's terrible of course but its great to see Jesse back on commentar. We go to a pretty good opening video package although they mix in clips of cheesy summer time activity which is just bizzare.
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The Hart Foundation vs. The Brian Busters
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Bret scores with an nice pair of arm drags to start the match, Bret then drops an elbow on the back of the arm of Tully Blanchard. Arn tags in and gets a droptoehold but Bret counters to a hammerlock and drops some knees onto the arm. Bret then hits a nice body slam and Niedhart tags in. Neidhart holds on to an arm wringer before tagging in Bret who hits a leg drop on the arm. The referee does not allow a tag to Tully for some unknown reason. Arn gets a headscissors and uses his chance to tag out to Tully.
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Tully goes for a kick to the gut but Bret catches his foot and tags in Jim. Tully grabs the beard and tries a hip toss but Niedhart blocks and slams Tully down hard. After some dull action Tully unloads with chops but Jim no sells everything and whips Tully hard into the top turnbuckle. Bret tags in and locks in a hammerlock and the crowd chant "Weasel". Tully spins out of the hammerlock and forces Bret down into a bridge with a top wrist lock. Bret bridges up, Arn helps out and applies a wrist lock on the other arm but Bret front flips into a double arm drag to a huge pop.
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Bret chases the Brian busters around the ring and Arn gets a blind tag and kills Bret with a northern lariat, when Arn goes for a Vader bomb Bret gets the knees up and both Brainbusters bail to the outside to recover. Bret brings Tully back into ther ing clubbing him hard through the ropes. Bret gets a double leg trip and a stomp to the mid section. Niedhart tags in with a big boot and then laughs in the face of Arn. Jim then catches Tully coming off the second rope and rams him hard into the corner. The Anvil then unloads until Arn gets a sneaky knee from behind. Bret whips Anvil into the corner hard but Arn manages to pull Tully out of the way at the last moment.
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Arn tags in and scores with a pair of knee drops before tagging in Tully who hits an elbow off the second rope. Tully applies a camel clutch and the crowd come to life. Jim lifts Tully on his back but Arn gets a blind tag and chops down Jim. Arn hits a big slug to the gut of the Anvil for a near fall, Jim powers out of the pin throwing Arn half way accross the ring. Tully unloads with a flurry of punches in the corner before tagging Arn back in. Arn dodges a closeline and they go to a collision spot.Arn rakes the eyes to avoid the hot tag and runs the ropes but Bret nails Arn with a knee to the back and both men are down.
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HOT TAG! Bret unloads with gut punches on Tully and then scores with a running back elbow and a pair of body slams and closelines on both men. BRet hits a stnading dropkick on Arn and then a body slam and second rope elbow drop on Tully. Bret scores with a suplex on Tully but Arn breaks the pin. Tully and Bret Hart are whipped hard into one another. Bret hits an inverted atomic drop on Tully and Bret unloads. Jim hits his slingshot shoulder block spot, then Jim gets a body slam and then Powerslams Bret Hart ontop of Tully. Bret has the pin but there's no ref as Bobby Heenan has him distracted. Arn then scores with the double axe handle on Bret for the 1-2-3.
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Well that was dissapointing, The Brainbusters really showed arse and played the heel roll really well, but Bret was horrible on offence in the early going and slowed the match to a crawl. The match really picked up toward the end with some good double team work but it never really clicked, which is a real shame as they gave it time. Fine but underwhelming opener. (**1/4)
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Dusty Rhodes cuts a very silly but very fun promo on Honky Tonk man apparently he's going to beat his booty.
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Dusty Rhodes vs. The Honky Tonk Man
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Honky plays to the crowd to start the match, Dusty responds by dancing and playing to the crowd. Dusty gives Honky a clean break and dances at Honky, Honky is pissed off and charges straight into a back body drop but Honky bails to avoid the elbow drop. Dusty works over arm but spends more time working the crowd. Dusty then messes up Honky's hair and hits an atomic drop and a bionic elbow before hitting a ten punch in the corner. Dusty show boats before locking in the worlds laziest toe hold.
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Honky fights out and scores with some right hands, Jimmy Hart trips Dusty but the Dream chases Hart around the ring, Honky gets the mega phone and nails Dusty in the gut while the referee is distracted. Honky distracts the referee while Jimmy Hart chokes Dusty in the ropes. Honky slaps on a chinlock and Dusty works the crowd with some dancing from within the sleeper but Dusty fades. Jimmy Hart gets in the crowds face on the microphone and works the crowd. Honky releases the hold and hits a couple of knee strikes before reapplying the chinock.
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Dusty completely fades until he's lying on the mat. Dusty fights his way up very very slowly and hits a body slam but misses the elbow drop and Honky gets a two count before Honky reapplies a chinlock. Dusty breaks the hold in the corner and hits some shoulder blocks in the corner. Dusty no sells and fires back and unloads with the jab combo and the flip flop and fly. Dusty misses a blind charge and Honky throws Dusty hard into the referee, ouch poor referee. Honky holds Dusty back and Jimmy Hart comes to the ring with the guitar but nails Honky by mistake. Dusty then hits the Elbow drop of Doom for the 1-2-3.
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Well that started out as a fun little match but went horribly when Honky decided to slap on a five minute chinlock, this is what happens when two of the laziest workers in history come together. Still they hit the right spots and entertained the fans. (3/4*)
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We then have a promo with Demolition and Duggan and they cut a very stupid shouty promo.
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Mr. Perfect vs. Red Rooster
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Both men get in each others face and exchange shoves, the Rooster won't back down until Curt hits a arm drag and a hip toss before mocking the Rooster. Perfect then scores with a fireman's carry, Perfect makes fun of the Rooster but Terry hits him with a huge bitch slap. They do a quick leap frog exchange, Rooster slips out of a body slam but when Rooster tries one of his own Perfect falls on top for a near fall. Perfect then hits a nice standing dropkick sending the Rooster to the outside. Both men brawl on the outside and Perfect unloads with some big rights, when they return to the ring Mr. Perfect hits the Perfect plex for the 1-2-3.
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Fun little squash, Curt really looked like a star here. (1/2*)
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Rick Rude and Bobby Heenan are backstage and Rude promise to prove that the Ultimate Warrior is actaully the Ultimate liar and that Rick Rude is the Ultimate Intercontinental champion. Bobby Heenan says he's going to give the Warrior a black eye.
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The Rockers & Tito Santana vs. The Fabulous Rougeaus & Rick Martel
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Jock and Tito start the match, Jock offers a handshake but Tito won't accept it. We get a triple leap frog spot and then a double hip toss from the Rockers and a double elbow and kip up spot, The Rockers then throw Tito Santana onto Raymond and Martel for a cross body and a triple dropkick sends the heels crashing to the outside. Great start to the match up.
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Jock fakes a cross body but Marty is aware and catches Jock with a punch to the gut when ht tries a flying axe handle. Raymond tags in with a nice spinning back kick on Marty. The heels isolate Marty and unload in the corner. Martel floats over Marty in the corner and mocks Marty, Marty is pissed off and scores with a dropkick and Tito tags in. Martel bails to the outside and tags out to Raymond. Tito leapfrogs Raymond dodges a closeline and scores with a closeline of his own. Jock trips Tito from the outside and Raymond scores with a big knee to the back.
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The Rougeaus then drop Tito throat first over the top rope and tag in Martel who stomps a mud hole in Tito. Jock tags in and scores with a nice dropkick on Tito. Jock gets a front face lock and they tease a hot tag. Tito teases a fight back but Martel counters with a series of shoulder blocks in the corner. Martel charges into a sunset slip for a near fall, Martel isn't happy and hits a back breaker before tagging in Raymond who locks on a boston crab right in the centre of the ring. While the referee is distacted Jock drops a big knee drop on the back of the head of Tito. Jock then tags in and slaps on an abdominal stretch. The heels use a series of illegal moves as the crowd chant "Tito".
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They tease a tag again but Martel breaks it up with an elbow drop. Tito holds onto the ropes to avoid a snset flip and we have a slugfest. Jock tags in and gets a flying cross body for a near fall Jock then whips Tito into a double boot from Raymond. Tito gets a sunset flip on Raymond for a two count before Raymond slaps on a chinlock. Tito fights out but he's met with a leaping reverse elbow from Jock. Tito dodges Jock and he collides with Raymond and the race is on the crowd are going bananas.
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HOT TAG! Shawn Michaels is in and he's on fire. He hits a big back body drop on Martel and plays to the crowd, HBK follows that up with a dropkick and Shawn counters a back body drop with a brilliant suplex and HBK heads up top with a flying fist drop. Marty tags in and Shawn press slam Marty ontop of Martel. Jock tries to break it up but Marty rolls out the way and his elbow drop hits Martel. The faces then whip all three heels into one another in a great spot. Marte is staggering in the middle of the ring and Tito hits the flying forearm and Martel goes flying to the outside. Jimmy Hart distracts Marty Jannetty, Jock gets a roll up but Marty reverse it and has the cover on Jock but Martel sneaks in and clobbers Marty with a right hand for a win.
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That was a really good fun six man tag, there was very long extended beat down on Tito but the heels varied the offence and didn't rely on restholds so the match was never dull. There were some very nice sequences in this match and great crowd heat throughout. I'd like to have seen the Rockers in the ring for a longer period but it didn't matter. The match was a nice bringing together of two feuds, good lower card match. (***)
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We then go to a nice video package showing us the near year long Warrior-Rude feud. We then get an insaenly ridiculous Ultimate Warrior promo.
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WWE Intercontinental Title
The Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude
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Warrior plays to the crowd to start the match up. Rude dodges Warrior and hits some jabs but the Warrior no sells. Warrior dodges a closeline and then closelines Rude over the top rope. Rude tries a sunset flip but Warrior blocks and gorrilla presses Rick Rude over the top rope to the outside. Warrior whips Rude into the barracade and then Warrior hits Rude in the back with the world title before suplexing Rude onto the mats at ring side. Warrior then tosses Rude with ease over the top rope and body slams Rick Rude on the outside.
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They return to the ring and Warrior climbs to the top rope and plays to the crowd. Warrior scores with the flying double axe handle off the top rope for a near fall. Warrior then gives Rude a pair of hard Irish whips and a body slam for another near fall. Warrior then hits Rude witha suplex for another near fall and Warrior looks frustrated Warrior then gives Rude a nice running inverted atomic drop before mocking Rude and then hitting a regular atomic drop. Rude then crotches the Warrior when he attempts to come off the top rope.
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Rude is now on top and he drives the forearms into the kidneys. Rude then hits a nice snap suplex for a near fall. Rude clubs away at the back of the Warrior before cinching in a camel clutch. Warrior tries to power up but Rude blocks with a pair of Stump pullers, Rude goes for the Rude awakening but Ultimate Warrior blocks and powers out, Rude dodges a closeline and jumps on Warrior's back with a sleeper hold, the crowd comes to life. Warrior breaks the hold with a jaw breaker and they go to a collision spot but the referee goes down too.
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Rude slugs away at Warrior but the Warrior spirits are in full effect and its No sell city. Warrior hits a back body drop and shakes the ropes before hitting his silly Warrior closelines and a nice power slam has Rude down for a ten count but there's no referee. Warrior hits a piledriver and the referee crawls over...1....2....Rude gets his foot on the rope.
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Warrior follows up with a running powerslam and the Warrior splash but Rude gets his knees up and the Warrior is really selling well by his standards. Rude is knackered but pulls Warrior to his feet and he hits a brutal reverse Tombstone piledriver for a 2.99999 count, the crowd can't believe it. Rude goes to the top rope and the crowd get to their feet as Rude hits a flying fist drop, that looked lame, that gets another nearfall.
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Piper comes to ringside and the crowd explode. Rude hits a piledriver and gets another near fall. Rude gets in Piper's face and Piper moons Rude, Rude is annoyed and gets on the second rope. Warrior gives Rude a brilliant German suplex off the second rope and then hits the flying shoulder tackle. The Warrior does his crazy dance and hits the Gorrilla Press and big splash for the 1-2-3.
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That was a brilliant match. For all of his failings you could see why the WWE got behind the Warrior when he put on matches of this quality. Granted this match was carried by Rude and incredibly well plotted out. The drama was excellent with the ref bumps and the brutal offence and great nearfalls. They delved into bag of tricks and pulled out a great match. (***3/4)
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Tom Mooney is in the crowd with the fans and they are going absolutely nuts fo Warriors title win its a really nice touch. We then go to some decent promos from Piper and Hennig. Rugged Ronnie Garvin is dresed in a tuxedo and says he has a special assignment tonight, Heenan charges in with Rude and he's absolutely shocked that Piper came out during their match. Rude says he doesn't care if he has to go through Piper or Warrior he will get his title back right now. Bobby Heenan was absolutely superb in this promo.
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The Twin Towers & Andre The Giant vs. Demolition & Hacksaw Jim Duggan
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Duggan unloads on Akeem to start the match and he hits a big wing up right hand. Axe tags in and slaps the crap out of Akeem before Smash tags in and both men pound the hell out of Akeem. Duggan tags in and works over the arm of Akeem. Axe tags in and hits a reverse elbow on Akeem. The Big Bossman tags ina dn Axe unloads with a flurry of shots before bringing in Smash. Bossman forces Smash to the corner and unloads with some huge right hands. Smash botches an Irish whip and tags in Duggan who works over the arm of Bossman who is sweating like a pig.
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Bossman chokes axe and tags in Andre who repeatedly sits on Axe before hitting a big right hand and applying a double nerve pinch of doom. Bossman tags in with a head put on Axe before introducing Axe to Akeem's boot. Akeem misses a blind charge and Smash tags in and body slams both Akeem and the Bossman to a huge pop before Andre comes in and swats him down. A big brawl errupts and Andre head butts Duggan. Akeem hits the second rope big splash on Smash but while the referee is distracted and Duggan clobbers Akeem in the back with the 2x4 and Smash crawls on top for the 1-2-3.
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That was what it was, a chaotic brawl that kept the fans energy levels up, nothing to write home about. (3/4*)
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Ted Dibiase is up next and he's with Virgil, Ted calls Snuka a primitive native who eats Coconuts and bananas while Ted dines out of caviar and champagne.
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Hercules vs. Greg Valentine
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Hercules unloads on Valentine to start the match before scoring with a reverse elbow for a two count. Hercules hits a spinning body slam for a two count and Greg Valentine bails to the outside. Valentine is distracted by Garvin and Hercules gets a sneaky roll up for a two count. They then brawl around ringside, when they return to the ring Valentine drops a series of elbows before going for the figure four but its blocked by Hercules. The Hammer comes off top but is met with a gut punch. The Hammer counters a back body drop with a back club. Hercules then scores with a nice hanging suplex. Greg Valentine then gets a sneaky roll up with his feet ropes for near the win.
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Horrible with no redeeming features. (DUD)
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Post match we get some interaction with Garvin and Valentine but it doesn't make up for a terrible match.
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Gene Okerland is backstage with the Sensational Sherri, Randy Savage and Zeus. Sherri has a couldron and apparently it will help them destroy Hogan and Beefcake, apparently she can see the future and they can she Hogan and Beefcake lying on their back. Savage then cuts a very silly Savage promo while Zeus pulls some of the worst facial expressions in the history of humanity.
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Ted Dibiase vs. Jimmy Snuka
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Superfly dodges a closeline and unloads with a pair of head butts sending Ted to the outside. Snuka dodges a blind charge and Ted knocks Virgil off the apron. Snuka then gives Ted a atomic drop and Ted takes a brilliant bump over the top rope. Ted locks on a side headlock and after AND SNUKA BOTCHES A REVERSE LEAP FROG! That was pretty funny but looked horrible. Ted lays in a series of elbows to the head and then slugs away in the corner. Ted whips Snuka into the ropes and then drops him throat first onto the top rope.
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Ted works over Snuka in the corner before hitting a suplex and laying some knees in to the back. Ted Dibiase hits a back breaker for a near fall before following up with a body slam and playing to the crowd Ted misses the second rope blind elbow and does his cool flip sell. Snuka unloads and Ted begs off. Superfly scores with a body slam and then a flying head butt off the second rope. Snuka goes up top and calls for the Superfly put gets distracted by Virgil and they brawl to the outside. Ted throws Snuka head first into ringpost and rolls back into the ring and wins the match by count out.
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Post Match: Superfly comes off the top rope with a flying headbutt and he gets a double karate chop on Virgil. Snuka then hits Virgil with the back breaker and heads to the top rope and hits the Superfly Splash a very good one.
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Well Ted sold well but Snuka was very sloppy, the post match was very good and made up for the dissapointing finish. Fine for what it was, everything from now on in seems to be a buffer between the Warrior match and the Hogan match. (3/4*)
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The Mega Maniacs are backstage and Hogan is posing before coming into one of his classic promos. Apparently the Mega Maniacs have been hanging and banging and riding there motorcycles. Hogan claims to have god like powers to part water. Beefcake cuts a ridiculous promo claiming that his blades are made out of titanium. Why is an evil barber a face? Wait I know he's one of Hogan's best mates.
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We then go to a video package detailing the feud, yes the one based on Hogan's movie no holds bar coming to life. Zeus's offence is possible the least credible in history. His promos are some how even worse.
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The Mega Maniacs (w/Senastional Sherri) vs. Randy Savage & Zeus (w/Miss Elizabeth)
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Beefcake throws Savage over the top rope leaving Zeus in the ring. Hogan offence doesn't hurt Zeus, an eye rake works but Hogan can't slam Zeus. Beefcake comes off top but Zeus catches him and then attacks Hogan with a bear hug, Savage comes off top and hits an axe handle on Hogan. Savage tags in and scores with a body slam and then a bombs away axe handle, Savage then playse to crowd and gets running knee strike and a diving closeline. Savage gets a snapmare and slaps on a chinlock and the crowd come to like shouting "Hogan".
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Hogan powers out and scores with a pair of shoulder tackles but Zeus gets Hogan with a knee in the back and tags in. Zeus then locks Hogan in the bearhug, Hogan is struggling and begins to fade. They check the arm and Hogan recovers but then drops to a knee and then falls down and Zeus gets a series of nearfalls with Hogan on his back. Hogan fights up and unloads but Zeus justs lifts Hogan into the corner and Savage tags in and scores with his jaw jacker move. Savage spits right in Beefcakes face and then hits a back suplex for a near fall. Savage misses a rope rider and an elbow drop.
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HOT TAG! Brutus comes in and unloads with closelines and then scores with the high knee. Brutus then locks Savage in the sleeper hold and Savage breaks the hold by running Beefcake into the top rope. Zeus tags in showboats but Beefcake rakes him in the eye and locks on the sleeper hold. Savage sneaks in while the referees distracted and hits Beefcake with a purse and Beefcake is out cold and Hogan has to make the save twice and chases Savage around the ring.
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Zeus hits a big boot and then gets a cartoony choke on the top rope, Zeus locks in a blatant choke and Earl Hebner has to pull Zeus off Beefcake. Zeus then takes Beefcake to the corner and locks in a choke on Beefcake. Zeus then drops Zeus throat first on the top rope. Savage tags in and Beefcake dodges a closeline leading to a collision spot.
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HOT TAG! Hogan comes in and he's on fire and unloads with the big rights. Hogan gets a corner closeline and the big boot but Savage bumps to the outside, Hogan suplexes Savage from the apron but Savage falls ontop for a near fall. Savage gets a closeline and the Picture Perfect Elbow drop, Hogan Hulks up to the shock of the crowd and cleans houses. Zeus tags in and Hogan gets the BOOM...BOOM...BOOM right hands and the closeline drops Zeus to a knee. Sherri is on the apron but Liz shoves her over. Beefcake shoves Savage off top and Hogan hits Zeus with the loaded purse and hits the big body slam that only leaves the Leg Drop of Doom and its over.
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Fun main event, Zeus was pretty terrible but his roll well putting Hogan in jepodary and the crowd bough into it big time. Not a classic by any stretch of the imagination but a fun feel good Hogan main event. (**)
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Post Match: Hogan, Brutus and Liz give Sherri a hair cut and then the big posedownathon begins.
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Overall Thoughts: Much better than the first Summerslam, had its slow spots but was a really good fun event with a good flow to it. Most of the action was of a good PPV quality, the main event delivered exactly what it promised, The Rockers match was a great undercard effort with good athleticism and the Warrior-Rude showdown stole the show with a near four star encounter that's well worth a watch. Rude something about Rude and Warrior clicked perfect to create epic matches, its a shame that the WWE was soon to discover outside of Rude and Hogan there weren't many other micarcle workers on the WWE main event roster. Good Event that delivered exactly what it promised. (7/10)
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