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The Story Of SummerSlam 88 / Pro Wrestling History Revealed · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: SummerSlam nineteen eighty eight World Wrestling Federation pay per view event.
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  Speaker 1: The nineteen eighty eight SummerSlam, marketed as SummerSlam eighty eight,
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  Speaker 1: was the inaugural SummerSlam professional wrestling pay per view PPV
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  Speaker 1: event produced by the World Wrestling Federation WWF now WWE.
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  Speaker 1: It took place on August twenty ninth, nineteen eighty eight,
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  Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.
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  Speaker 1: The pay per view was created to help the company
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  Speaker 1: compete against rival promotion Jim Crockett Promotions. It was one
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  Speaker 1: of the first four annual pay review events produced by
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  Speaker 1: the WWF, along with WrestleMania, The Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series,
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  Speaker 1: which were eventually dubbed the Big Four. The event consisted
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  Speaker 1: of ten professional wrestling matches. The preliminary matches included a
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  Speaker 1: title defense by Intercontinental Champion The Honky Tonk Man against
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  Speaker 1: a surprise challenger revealed to be The Ultimate Warrior. The
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  Speaker 1: Ultimate Warrior won the match in just thirty one seconds
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  Speaker 1: to end Honky K Honk's fourteen month title reign, at
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  Speaker 1: the time, the longest Intercontinental championship reign in history. The
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  Speaker 1: main event was a match fitting the Mega Powers Pulk
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  Speaker 1: Hogan and Randy Savage against their longtime rivals the Megabucks
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  Speaker 1: ped Dbasse and Andre the Giant. Hogan and Savage won
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  Speaker 1: the match after Miss Elizabeth, Savage's manager distracted Andrea and
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  Speaker 1: Dbasse by removing her skirt to reveal her pandies. The
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  Speaker 1: inaugural SummerSlam was held at Madison Square Garden in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, New York. In the late nineteen eighties, the
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  Speaker 1: World Wrestling Federation's WWF now WWE main competition in the
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  Speaker 1: professional wrestling industry was from the National Wrestling Alliance's NW eight.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Crockett Promotions. WWF chairman Vince McMahon counter Jim Crockett's
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  Speaker 1: successful Starkade pay per view, which began airing in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three by creating WrestleMania. After WrestleMania three in March
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, the most successful professional wrestling pay per
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  Speaker 1: view of evs in history, McMahon created Survivor Series, which
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  Speaker 1: aired the same day as Starkade in November nineteen eighty seven.
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  Speaker 1: After defeating Crockett in the ratings War, McMahon created the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Rumbull an event airing for free on the USA
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  Speaker 1: Network in January nineteen eighty eight on the same night
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  Speaker 1: as the Crockett produced Bunk House Stampede. The event set
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  Speaker 1: a ratings record for the network, with eight million households
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  Speaker 1: tuning in to watch the event. In retaliation, Crockett created
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  Speaker 1: the Clash of the Championsie event, which aired simultaneously with
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  Speaker 1: WrestleMania four. WrestleMania four garnered higher ratings, and not long after,
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  Speaker 1: Crockett filed for bankruptcy and sold his company to Ted Turner,
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  Speaker 1: who rebranded it as World Championship Wrestling WCW. As the
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  Speaker 1: WWF continued to replace its closed circuit programming with pay
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  Speaker 1: per view programming, McMahon added more pay per views to
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  Speaker 1: the lineup to capitalize on the success of his previous events.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to WrestleMania in March, Royal Rumble in January,
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  Speaker 1: and Survivor Series in November, McMahon created an event for August,
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  Speaker 1: which he named SummerSlam. It was scheduled to be held
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  Speaker 1: on August twenty ninth, nineteen eighty eight, at Madison Square
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  Speaker 1: Garden in New York City, New York. To keep the
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  Speaker 1: WWF from having a pay for view market monopoly, Turner
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  Speaker 1: began airing monthly WCW pay per views. As a result,
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  Speaker 1: both companies brought in hundreds of millions of dollars of
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  Speaker 1: revenue before SummerSlam. The Honky tonk Man had been the
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  Speaker 1: longest reigning Intercontinental champion in WWF history. He was originally
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  Speaker 1: supposed to defend his championship against Brutus Beefcake, but Beefcake
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  Speaker 1: was unable to compete as a result of an injury
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  Speaker 1: received from outlaw Ron Based a week before. Also before
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  Speaker 1: the event, Demolition Acts and Smash held the WWF World
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  Speaker 1: Tag Team Championship, which they had won at WrestleMania four
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  Speaker 1: after only a year in the WWF, and they would
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  Speaker 1: defend their titles at SummerSlam against former champions The Heartfelt
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  Speaker 1: Foundation Brett Hart and Jim Knighthart, who had become fan
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  Speaker 1: favorites a few weeks earlier by turning on their manager,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Hard. The on screen feud between Rick Rude and
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  Speaker 1: Jake Roberts began weeks before SummerSlam. As part of his gimmick, Rudwood,
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  Speaker 1: after winning a match, invite a pre selected woman from
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  Speaker 1: the audience to kiss him in the ring. On one occasion,
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  Speaker 1: one of the women refused to comply, later identifying herself
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  Speaker 1: as Robert's wife, Cheryl. As the feud intensified, Rude began
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  Speaker 1: wearing a pair of tights with a picture of Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: stenciled on them, prompting a furious Roberts to charge into
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  Speaker 1: the ring and strip the tights off Rude, appearing to
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  Speaker 1: television viewers to leave Rude naked, although the live audience
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  Speaker 1: saw him stripped to a G string instead. For months
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  Speaker 1: before the pay per view, Hulk Hogan and undisputed WWF
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  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Champion Randy Savage, two of the WWF's top crowd favorites,
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  Speaker 1: had feuded with Andre the Giant and Ted d Biassi, respectively.
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  Speaker 1: The two feuds first came together at WrestleMania IV, when,
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  Speaker 1: as the result of the vacating of the WWF Heavyweight Championship,
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  Speaker 1: a fourteen man single elimination tournament was set up to
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  Speaker 1: crown a new champions. Hogan and Andrea had been disqualified
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  Speaker 1: in their quarter final match, while Savage and dBase reached
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  Speaker 1: the championship match. In that final match, Savage defeated dBase
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  Speaker 1: with help from Hogan Savage and DBAs feuded over the
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  Speaker 1: title throughout the spring and summer, but Andre did not
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  Speaker 1: become involved until Midsummer, when he and DBAs helped instigate
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  Speaker 1: a two on one attack against Savage as he was
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  Speaker 1: delivering a promo. Savage quickly recovered and challenged Andrea and
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  Speaker 1: dBase to a tag team match against him and a
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  Speaker 1: partner to be named. That partner was later revealed to
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  Speaker 1: be Hogan. The team became known as the Mega Powers.
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  Speaker 1: The Andre Dbasse team, which dubbed itself the Megabucks, retaliated
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  Speaker 1: by announcing the guest referee would be someone they declared
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  Speaker 1: to be fair and neutral, Jesse Ventura, a color commentator
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  Speaker 1: on the wwa's programs who favored the villains, though according
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  Speaker 1: to the main storyline, Ventura was chosen by WWF president
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  Speaker 1: Jack Tunney as the only person capable of handling such
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  Speaker 1: a match. The event began with a match between the
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  Speaker 1: British Bulldogs Davy Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid and the
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  Speaker 1: Fabulous Rugeau's Jack and Raymond Brugeau. As soon as the
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  Speaker 1: bell rang to signify that the match had begun, Smith
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  Speaker 1: attacked Jock. The two teams traded blows until the Rugeaus
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  Speaker 1: flipped Dynamite Kid over their heads so that he fell
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  Speaker 1: on his back to the match, Dynamite Kid escaped another
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  Speaker 1: offensive maneuver before tagging in his partner. Smith and the
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  Speaker 1: British Bulldogs performed a double team maneuver on Jock. Despite
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  Speaker 1: having the upper hand, the Bulldogs failed to pin Jock
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  Speaker 1: in time, and the match ended in a twenty minute
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  Speaker 1: time limit draw. The next match was between Bad News
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  Speaker 1: Brown and Ken Pottera. Before the bell rang, however, Brown
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  Speaker 1: attacked Pottera, who retaliated by performing a clothesline from the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Pottera then slipped both of his arms underneath Brown's armpits
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  Speaker 1: and locked his hands behind his neck, using a submission
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  Speaker 1: move known as a full nelson. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the match, Brown defeated Potera by striking him in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the head with his finishing move, the Ghetto Blaster.
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  Speaker 1: After the second match ended, Rick Rud and the Junkyard
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  Speaker 1: Dog made their way to the ring. Their match began
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  Speaker 1: as Rude attack Junkyard Dog from behind, who retaliated by
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  Speaker 1: headbutting Rude several times. Subsequently, Rude climbed to the wrestling
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  Speaker 1: rings top rope and pulled down his tights to reveal
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  Speaker 1: another pair of tights with a picture of Cheryl Roberts
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  Speaker 1: on them. As a result, Jake Roberts, Cheryl Roberts' husband,
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  Speaker 1: ran to the ring and attacked Rude, forcing the referee
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  Speaker 1: to disqualify the Junkyard Dog. The next match was a
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  Speaker 1: tag team match between the Powers of Painter the Barbarian
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  Speaker 1: and the Warlord, who were accompanied by their manager, The Baron,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bolsheviks Boris Zhukov and Nikolai Volkov, who were
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by Slick. Immediately, the Powers of Pain chased the
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  Speaker 1: Bolsheviks from the ring. Slick, however, distracted the Powers of
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  Speaker 1: Pay long enough to give the Bolsheviks an advantage. Zhukov
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  Speaker 1: was then slammed to the mat back first and headbutted
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  Speaker 1: from the top rope, which allowed the Barbarian to pin him.
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  Speaker 1: The fifth match of the event was an Intercontinental Championship
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  Speaker 1: match between the Ultimate Warrior and the reigning champion, the
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  Speaker 1: Honky tonk Man, who was accompanied by Jimmy Hard. Before
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  Speaker 1: the match, it had been announced that Hanky's original challenger,
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  Speaker 1: Brutus Beefcake, was unable to wrestle due to being attacked
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  Speaker 1: the previous week on an episode of Superstars of Wrestling
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  Speaker 1: by outlaw Ron Bass, who had raked his cowboy spurs
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly across Beefcake's forehead. Television and even the PKV only
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  Speaker 1: showed the censored version of the attack. Before the match,
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  Speaker 1: the Honky Tonk Man refused to be informed about Beefcake's replacement,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately before the match even grabbed reing announcer Howard
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  Speaker 1: Finkel's microphone and said, give me someone out here to wrestle.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care who it is. His challenge was answered
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  Speaker 1: by the Ultimate war Warrior, who accidentally knocked Finkle to
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  Speaker 1: the floor when he rushed into the ring and hit
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  Speaker 1: the Ropes. Had the advantage from the beginning, attacking the
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  Speaker 1: Honky Tonk Man, who was still in his entrance attire.
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  Speaker 1: After body slamming him to the mat and following it
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  Speaker 1: up with a clothes line, the Warrior bounded to the
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  Speaker 1: Ropes and landed stomach first on the Honky Tonk Man,
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  Speaker 1: using his signature move, the Warrior Splash. The Ultimate Warrior
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  Speaker 1: then pinned the honky Tonk Man after only thirty one
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  Speaker 1: seconds to win the title. The longest intercontinental title reign
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  Speaker 1: in WWF history, had ended with one of the shortest
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  Speaker 1: ic title matches in history. Honky's reign would be the
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  Speaker 1: longest Intercontinental championship reign in WWE history until Gunther broke
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  Speaker 1: the record in September twenty twenty three. The following contest
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  Speaker 1: was a rematch from WrestleMania four between Dino Bravo and
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  Speaker 1: The Rock Don Morocco. Morocco, the crowd favorite, was in
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  Speaker 1: control for most of the match until Bravo's manager, Frenchy
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  Speaker 1: Martin distracted Morocco allow Bravo to use his side suplex
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  Speaker 1: and pin him for the win. The Rock had gone
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  Speaker 1: into the match without his manager, Superstar Billy Graham, who
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  Speaker 1: could only look on helplessly from his position in the
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  Speaker 1: commentary booth alongside Guerrilla Monsoon at the illegal antics of
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  Speaker 1: Bravo and Martin. The seventh match of the night was
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  Speaker 1: for the WWF Tag Team Championship. Reigning champions Demolition Axe
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  Speaker 1: and Smash, accompanied by both Mister Fuji and Jimmy Hart,
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  Speaker 1: were challenged by the Hart Foundation Brett Hart and jim Knightharn.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the bell sounded, the Hart Foundation attacked
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  Speaker 1: both members of Demolition. Their control was brief as Demolition
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  Speaker 1: then gained the advantage over Nighthawk. As Brett Hart was
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  Speaker 1: tagged into the match, Demolition got the advantage over him
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  Speaker 1: when he was whipped shoulder first into the turnbuckle, breaking
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  Speaker 1: Mister Fuji's came that he had placed there when the
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  Speaker 1: referee wasn't looking. After a few minutes of Demolition working
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  Speaker 1: over Hart's shoulder, a frustrated Nightheart chased Jimmy Hart from
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  Speaker 1: ringside and returned to tag back into the match. When
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  Speaker 1: all four men began fighting inside the ring, knight Heart
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  Speaker 1: attacked mister Fuji, who was on the ring apron. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of the match, Brettthart attempted a pile driver,
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  Speaker 1: but Ax hit him with a megaphone given to him
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  Speaker 1: by Jimmy Hart. Sneaking back to the ring, Smash then
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  Speaker 1: pinned Brett Hart for the wind. The next match was
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  Speaker 1: between the Big boss Man accompanied by Slick and the
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  Speaker 1: Birdman Coco Beware. With Slick as a distraction. The Big
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  Speaker 1: boss Man took the early advantage in the match after
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  Speaker 1: crushing Coco in between himself and the turnbuckle with a
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  Speaker 1: jumping avalanche. Boss Man refused to pin him and finish
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  Speaker 1: the match. Instead, he attempted to climb to the top
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  Speaker 1: rope and land on Coco's stomach first, but missed. The
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  Speaker 1: Birdman then retaliated by performing several drop kicks and attempted
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  Speaker 1: a pin. Boss Man got his shoulder up to save
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  Speaker 1: himself from being pinned, and he slammed his opponent into
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  Speaker 1: the map, allowing him to pin Coco for the win.
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  Speaker 1: The second to last match of the night was between
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  Speaker 1: Jake Roberts and Hercules. When Roberts attempted to slam his
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  Speaker 1: opponent's head onto the mat with a DDT, Hercules was
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  Speaker 1: able to escape the maneuver and take control of the match.
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  Speaker 1: As Hercules attempted to slam Roberts to the mat, Roberts
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  Speaker 1: reversed the move into a DDT, enabling him to pin
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  Speaker 1: Hercules for the win. The last match of the night
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  Speaker 1: was the main event between the Mega Powers Pulk Hogan
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  Speaker 1: and Randy Savage accompanied by Miss Elizabeth and the Megabucks
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  Speaker 1: Ted dBase and Andrea the Giant accompanied by Andrea's manager
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Heenan and Dbiasse's bodyguard Virgil Jesse Ventura was the
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  Speaker 1: special guest referee. The Mega Powers took the early advantage
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  Speaker 1: over Dbasse. After Hogan attacked Andre the Giant, who was
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  Speaker 1: on the ring apron, the Megabucks were able to regain control.
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  Speaker 1: After a while, all four men began brawling, and Andrea
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  Speaker 1: knocked the Mega Powers out of the ring. Subsequently, as
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  Speaker 1: part of the stricted ending to the match, Miss Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: began arguing with Ventura the referee, and ripped off her
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  Speaker 1: skirt to reveal a one piece swimsuit. While the Megabucks
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  Speaker 1: were distracted, Savage climbed to the top rope and dropped
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  Speaker 1: the macho elbow on Dvase, followed by Hogan hitting the
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  Speaker 1: leg drop on Dvase. As Hogan pinned dBase, Ventura, a
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  Speaker 1: villainous character aligned with the Megabucks despite being a long
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  Speaker 1: time on air Savage fan and his former tag team partner,
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  Speaker 1: began a slow three count. As a result, Savage Slamm
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  Speaker 1: Ventures armed down for the third time, indicating that Hogan
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  Speaker 1: and Savage had won the match. The event was produced
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  Speaker 1: by the World Wrestling Federation WWF and took place on
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  Speaker 1: August twenty ninth, nineteen eighty eight, in New York City's
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. The pay per view had a four
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  Speaker 1: point five by rate, which means that four point five
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  Speaker 1: percent of pay per view subscribers ordered the event. The
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  Speaker 1: original plan for SummerSlam was to bring Rig Flair over
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  Speaker 1: from the National Wrestling Alliance NWA to the WWF. Vince McMahon,
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the WWF, wanted Flair to challenge Savage
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  Speaker 1: in the main event, the WWF Championship. Flair, however, felt
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  Speaker 1: obliged to the NWA and did not leave the promotion
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  Speaker 1: for the WWF. Therefore, Hogan and Savage were paired together
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  Speaker 1: to end their feuds with their respective on screen rivals.
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  Speaker 1: Flair would not join the WWF until nineteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: Callumwodell in Fighting Spirit magazine called the Ultimate Warriors win
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  Speaker 1: over the Honky Tonk Man genuinely captivating, and he said
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  Speaker 1: the match between the British Bulldogs and the Fabulous Rougeaus
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  Speaker 1: was an exciting battle. In contrast, he had a negative
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  Speaker 1: reaction to the main event match, citing it as predictably
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  Speaker 1: one dimensional and the bismo. Similarly, Adam Neediff of four
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  Speaker 1: to one to one Mania called the tag team match
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  Speaker 1: between the British Bulldogs and the Rougeaus a solid match,
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  Speaker 1: but stated that the lack of a finish was a disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: Although he reviewed most of the matches negatively, he called
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  Speaker 1: the WWF World Tag Team Championship to match a good
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  Speaker 1: man Overall, he rated the event of four point five
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  Speaker 1: out of ten and stated, without Warriors big win in
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth's surprise finish, this is a forgettable show. On October sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, tedd Biassi defeated Randy Savage in the
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  Speaker 1: finals of the King of the Ring tournament. The Mega
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  Speaker 1: Powers continued to team together after the event until a
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  Speaker 1: new storyline was developed where Randy Savage became jealous of
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  Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan paying attention to Miss Elizabeth, and as the
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  Speaker 1: WWF World Heavyweight Champion, felt slighted over his perceived lower
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  Speaker 1: billing in the Mega Powers pecking order. Several key events
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  Speaker 1: were developed to foreshadow their burgeoning feud. These included Hogan
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  Speaker 1: asking Elizabeth to accompany him to televised matches where he
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  Speaker 1: would act overly friendly with her, and accidentally eliminating Savage
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  Speaker 1: from the Royal Rumble in January nineteen eighty nine by
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  Speaker 1: knocking him over the top rope into the floor. The
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  Speaker 1: final falling out happened on the Main Event two when
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth received an on screen injury during a tag team match. Savage,
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  Speaker 1: left alone in the ring while Hogan tended to Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: attacked Hogan backstage. This rivalry culminated in a match for
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  Speaker 1: Savage's WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania V, where Hogan
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  Speaker 1: won the title by pinning Savage. As WWF Intercontinental Champion,
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  Speaker 1: the Ultimate Warrior began receiving more on air time and
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  Speaker 1: more prominent matches. His feud with the Honky tonk Man
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  Speaker 1: continued for several months until Warrior was placed in a
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  Speaker 1: new feud with Rick rud In early nineteen eighty nine.
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  Speaker 1: After retaining their title against the Hart Foundation, Demolition held
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  Speaker 1: the ww F Tag Team Championship for another eleven months
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  Speaker 1: as part of a record breaking sixteen month reign as champions,
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  Speaker 1: before eventually losing the title to the brain Busters Tully
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  Speaker 1: Blanchard and arn Andersen on Saturday Night's Main Event twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: During the midst of their title reign, despite being billed
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  Speaker 1: as villains, Demolition's popularity with fans continued to grow, and
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  Speaker 1: the tag team eventually was turned phase three months after
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  Speaker 1: SummerSlam at the nineteen eighty eight Survivor Series. Several of
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  Speaker 1: the WWF stars from the beginning of its national expansion
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four slowly began leaving the promotion over
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  Speaker 1: the next few months, including Ken Pottera, Junkyard Dog, the
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  Speaker 1: British Bulldogs, particularly Dynamite Kid and Don Morocco, as the
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  Speaker 1: WWF began focusing on new talents such as Bad News
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  Speaker 1: browned Rick Rude, the Ultimate Warrior, the Powers of Pain,
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  Speaker 1: and the brain Busters, who would arrive in October nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight. Later in nineteen eighty eight, the Big boss
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  Speaker 1: Man would join forces with the One Man Gang, who
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  Speaker 1: by then had changed his character to a keen hailing
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  Speaker 1: from the deepest, Darkest Africa, to form the tag team
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  Speaker 1: called the Twin Towers. The Bolsheviks began to fall down
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  Speaker 1: the tag team ranks, losing in feuds with the Powers
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  Speaker 1: of Pain and later with the newly arrived Bushwhackers. Following
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  Speaker 1: the inaugural nineteen eighty eight event, SummerSlam became one of
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  Speaker 1: the WWF's most successu full events, as well as one
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  Speaker 1: of the WWF's original four K per views. Along with WrestleMania,
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  Speaker 1: Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble, which were eventually dubbed the
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  Speaker 1: Big Four. Those four events, along with King of the
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  Speaker 1: Ring introduced in nineteen ninety three, were known as the
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  Speaker 1: Classic Five or Big Five until two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 1: as the King of the Ring PTV was discontinued after
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and two. In August twenty twenty one, Money
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  Speaker 1: in the Bank joined the Four to become part of
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  Speaker 1: the Big Five. SummerSlam has also been referred to as
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  Speaker 1: the Biggest Party of the summer and eventually became the
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  Speaker 1: promotion's second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania. In
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  Speaker 1: May two thousand and two, the WWF was renamed to
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  Speaker 1: World Wrestling Entertainment WWE, and that WWE abbreviation became an
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  Speaker 1: orphaned initialism in April twenty eleven. SummerSlam continued to be
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  Speaker 1: held in August every year until twenty twenty two, as
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  Speaker 1: that year's event was scheduled to be held in July. However,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three event returned to August,