Summerslam (1996)

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Summerslam 1996 was the twelfth Summerslam event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 11th August 1996

## Background

The main match heading into Summerslam is Vader defending his WWF Championship against Ahmed Johnson. At Money in the Bank, Vader defended the title in a ladder match against Undertaker, Sycho Sid, Ahmed Johnson, Yokozuna and Sycho Sid but the match came to an end as every man fell from the ladders onto the ring and the ring broke due to the mass. Vader faced every opponent in 1 on 1 action in the following weeks, Undertaker vs Vader ended in a DQ as Ahmed and Bradshaw attacked Taker and Ahmed vs Vader also ended in a DQ as Undertaker exposed that Ahmed didn't care about Bradshaw and Bradshaw beat up his tag partner. Ahmed and Undertaker had a match which Ahmed won to face Vader tonight. The most important part of this match is the backstage drama, Ahmed is only getting this huge push because he was promised the WWF title after snitching that he saw Shawn Michaels and HHH say their goodbyes to Hall and Nash before they left for WCW(so DX were the only ones who knew), this led to HHH being fired, Vader had promised that if Ahmed was booked to win tonight, he would leave WWF, Undertaker talked to Vince and put him out of that decision so Ahmed decided to leak to the dirtsheets all these news, the backstage camera footage of HHH and Shawn hugging Hall and Nash and the decision that Ahmed was gonna lose tonight which infuriated everyone backstage so Ahmed is walking into a true lion's den

The Ringmaster debuted allied with Ted Dibiase, as Million Dollar Corporation turned into Undertaker's cult, Dibiase only remained with The Ringmaster and the debuting Brian Pillman but these two completely hated each other and fought at any chance they had. They had a tag match against Undertaker's cult where if MDC lost, Ted Dibiase would be fired from WWF, The Ringmaster stunner'd Pillman and let him be pinned. Ringmaster announced himself as Stone Cold Steve Austin as both men entered the KOTR with Austin constantly beating up Pillman and eventually beating him in the finals. Pillman said it wasn't fair because Austin kept cheap shotting him so he challenged IC champion Goldust for a title match on the day after and actually won. Austin and Pillman will fight tonight for the IC Championship and Pillman has added the stipulation that if Austin loses, he will embarass him and shave his hair

Bret Hart kept saying he was gonna help out his little brother Owen win the WWF title from Mr.Perfect at Survivor Series, Owen said that if Bret stepped a foot in the ring during the match he would beat his ass as Owen wanted to win the title all by himself for people to respect him. In the Survivor Series match, Bret showed up anyways but he started chairshotting Owen and made him lose the match, they continued feuding but teaming at the same time as both men had a grudge against Camp Cornette but hated each other at the same time. Jerry Lawler announced that for the first time ever Bret Hart would face Owen Hart on the episode of RAW post 7 week break, they tore the house down as they wrestled for 1 hour and 23 minutes and the match ended with both men falling to the ground exhausted as it finished in a draw. Owen returned 2 weeks later hyped up as he challenged his brother yet again, Vince Mcmahon himself announced that the rematch would be taking place at Wrestlemania but with a 30 minute time limit as he couldn't afford them to waste an hour of Wrestlemania, the match ended in a draw as both men turned face due to the huge crowd support. They continued their feud as Owen Hart became mr.money in the bank and tried cashing in but Bret stopped him, tonight they will face each other and the loser cannot have title shots until after the Royal Rumble

At In Your House 20, in the finals of a tournament for the vacant Intercontinental Championship, Goldust defeated Marc Mero after Marlena debuted and took out Mero's manager Sable, Mero challenged them both to a mixed tag match to see who is the true power couple of WWF

D-Generation X cost Ultimate Warrior a WWF title match against Vader just to spite authorities, Warrior was embarassed by this as he was bodyslammed by a woman, Chyna. Warrior suddenly challenged her to a singles match which she accepted

Ministry of Darkness's Mankind defeated Shawn Michaels in one on one action and at Money in the Bank Mankind and Mark Henry picked up the win against Shawn and Billy Gunn, Shawn challenged the freak Mankind to a match tonight where the winner entered the G1, Shawn has tried to announce the newest DX member every week but he keeps being interrupted, it is expected that he will debut tonight

## Results

Other participants: The Godwins, Headbangers, Faaroq and Undertaker and New Foundation

## Details

* Pillman is happy that he gets to embarass Austin but Austin punches him on the face, picks up the razor and shaves it all himself looking like a badass, he stunners Pillman
* Owen Hart turns heel as British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart align with him and help him win against Bret
* After the tag title match, Taz, Shane Douglas, BWO, Raven, Tommy Dreamer and Bam Bam Bigelow show up from the barricade to a huge pop from the philadelphia crowd, they start beating up the teams in the ring, security come out but they also destroy them with chairshots to the head. Jerry Lawler doesn't know what he can do anymore when Vader's theme hits, he nods at Lawler and goes running to the ring with a chair. Taz tells all the ECW guys to get out of the ring as him and Vader stare each other down, Taz leaves the ring and screams "STEAL OUR TALENT, WE STEAL YOUR SHOW CUNTS"
* It's announced that the son of Rocky Johnson, Rocky Maivia will make his debut entering the G1, since this vignette happened after the ECW invasion, the crowd started chanting "fuck off" at the kid as soon as the camera was on him
* Vader completely squashes Ahmed due to his leaks, he was fired after the show
* Vader demands a real challenge and out comes DX as they are finally ready to announce the newest member of DX: WCW'S BARRY WINDHAM MAKING HIS FIRST WWF APPEARENCE IN ALMOST 9 YEARS.
* Shawn SCM's Vader during the match and Windham rolls him up but Vader kicks out