Summerslam (1988)

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Summerslam 1988 was the fourth Summerslam event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 14th August 1988

## Background

It was announced that for the first time ever the Intercontinental Championship would be main eventing a PPV as Bret Hart defends against KOTR Winner Mr.Perfect, Bret Hart won the title at Summerslam 1986 and 728 days later he's still the champion as he has had the best title reign since WWF started, Mr.Perfect debuted in May and quickly rose up the ranks and beat former WWF Champion Sting in the KOTR Finals.

Bad News Brown proclaimed that he wanted to beat every former WWF Champion, he started with Andre The Giant, then went for Koko B.Ware and then for Ted Dibiase, at SNME June 1988 Bad News Brown took out Warrior and prevented him from winning the MITB Briefcase and Bad News Brown decided to challenge the current WWF Champion and forget his whole path of former WWF Champs, Warrior accepted deeming him as good competition and that's what he wants.

At Wrestlemania IV, Harley Race defeated Hulk Hogan in the quarter finals of the WWF Championship tournament as Big Boss Man debuted and distracted Hogan, since then they have targeted Hogan with constant beatdowns, at SNME May 1988 One Man Gang joined them and they formed Twin Towers, Hogan will face Big Boss Man and One Man Gang tonight in a handicap match.

At G1 Finals 1987, Jacques Rougeau helped President of WWF Jack Tunney defend his 24/7 Championship, ever since then he's been called Tunney's bitch by other wrestlers and they keep saying that sucking up to the president will get him nowhere, at first Tunney told Jacques that he had to stay fair with every wrestler but starting at Superstars 136 this attitude seemed to change as Tunney started giving Jacques previleges such as awarding him a MITB spot, giving him a WWF Championship shot for no reason and now he decided to give him a tag team championship shot with Jack Tunney himself as the tag partner, Tunney is completely abusing his power and this tag title match is about that.

At Superstars 141, Dream Team called Demolition's tag title reign the worst one in history which Mr.Fuji responded that at least they were tag champions, this brought hatred between the 2 teams and they will face each other tonight.

Harley Race called himself the King of WWF ever since arriving to WWF in 1985, Haku has been doing nothing noteworthy since Wrestlemania IV so he challenged Harley for this name to see who is the true King of WWF

## Results

Other participants: The Blue Blazer, Marty Jannety, Virgil, Koko B.Ware, Shawn Michaels and Ted Dibiase

## Details

* This PPV took place in Canada
* Hulk Hogan decided that he didn't wanna do this handicap and chose Sting(who had been getting beaten down by Twin Towers in the past few weeks) as his tag partner
* Honky Tonk Man did a promo that the year of HTM would continue as he entered the G1 and challenged anyone for the opportunity to enter the tournament, Roddy Piper returned and took the challenge
* Tito Santana tells Martel that he can't beat up his boss feeling pity for him, Tunney rolls him up to win the titles
* Judge of Wrestling Vince Mcmahon came out saying that this is abusing of power at its finest, he says that the tag titles are not vacated but Jacques Rougeau will have to defend it handicap because Jack Tunney is fired.
* Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard debuted and helped Mr.Perfect win the title forming The Ringmasters

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