G1 Finals (1987)

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G1 Finals 1987 was the third G1 Finals event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 11th October 1987

## Background

The main match heading into the show is the G1 Tournament Final Match between Ted Dibiase and Bret Hart, after 2 months of eliminations, Dibiase defeated The Blue Blazer and Rick Rude, Bret Hart defeated Bam Bam Bigelow and Ultimate Warrior to get this spot, the winner will be getting a WWF Championship shot next month at Survivor Series.

Ever since losing the WWF Championship at SNME May, Hulk Hogan has been trying to get it back but has had setbacks feuding with people like Ricky Steamboat and Ted Dibiase, at SNME September Hogan vs Ricky Steamboat ended in a countout draw and on the show after, Hogan challenged the WWF Champion Sting to a match at G1 Finals and Sting accepted immediatly, a respectful match between the quickest rising star in WWF history and the biggest star in the world.

Ricky Steamboat took Koko B.Ware under his wing at Superstars 87 wanting to make him a world champion, to Steamboat's shock he held an open challenge for the WWF Championship at Superstars 100 and Koko B.Ware responded and won it, Steamboat celebrated with his protege but soon beat him up turning heel as Sting cashed in and won the WWF Championship from Koko, Koko was injured with this attack and only returned at Summerslam, after Koko was eliminated from the G1 he set his sights on Steamboat and challenged him to a match which Steamboat intially refused because he still wanted to get the WWF Championship back but after Koko taunted him on being better than him, Steamboat accepted, it'll be mentor vs protege

Junkyard Dog became NO1 Contender to the Intercontinental Championship at Summerslam, before he got his title shot he was added into another NO1 Contendership match so if he got lucky he would get 2 shots, JYD lost that match to One Man Gang though and now there are 2 NO1 Contenders to the title, One Man Gang wasn't happy about that wanting to be the only contender, Jack Tunney made this match to declare the one true NO1 Contender to the Intercontinental Championship and JYD wasn't happy

Demolition won a NO1 Contenders Match at Superstars 112 against Dream Team and will now get their rematch from Summerslam as they face Snake's Pit

Jack Tunney introduced the 24/7 Championship at Superstars 89 and since then it's been a whole mess, somehow an Invisible Man rolled Bret Hart up to win the 24/7 Championship at SNME September, Tunney quickly said that the only rule of this championship is that the holder had to visible so Invisible Man was forced to give up the title which Jack Tunney quickly declared himself as champion. Jack Tunney was sent into president's court as he was judged by the Judges of Wrestling: Vince Mcmahon, Antonio Inoki, Giant Baba and many more as they decided if Tunney should stay as president of WWF or not, they came to the agreement that while Tunney could stay as president, he'd have to defend that championship like anyone else and made a 6-Men Battle Royal for the title.

## Details

* Jacques Rougeau entered the ring during the battle royal and started helping Tunney eliminating people, it was down to Tunney and Jacques vs Andre and after Andre almost killed a 60 year old man on live PPV, Jacques managed to eliminate him as Tunney retained exhausted
* After the match, Jacques explained that this is our president and they should be respectful of him, The Islanders beat him up and a microphone landed on a laid down Tunney, a WWF Microphone is 24/7 Champion.
* Ted Dibiase defeated Bret Hart by cheating