Summerslam (1987)

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Summerslam 1987 was the third Summerslam event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 16th August 1987

## Background

The main feud heading into Summerslam is Sting defending the WWF Championship against Ricky Steamboat, at Superstars 100 Ricky Steamboat would hold an open challenge for the WWF Championship, his protege Koko B.Ware answered and shockingly won the belt, Steamboat proceeded to beat him up and turn heel in the process and Sting took profit of this cashing in and winning the WWF Championship becoming the quickest rookie to ever do so as he debuted only 2 months prior. Ted Dibiase and Hulk Hogan were scheduled to have a NO1 Contendership match at King of the Ring when Steamboat attacked Hogan before the match and took his spot beating Ted Dibiase and becoming NO1 Contender, Steamboat is looking to become a 3 time WWF Champion with this new found attitude while Sting is getting more and more support from the fans.

Ted Dibiase debuted in May bribing wrestlers to get him to the WWF Championship scene, this included making a deal with Andre The Giant as at SNME May, both men tried to beat up Hogan and Steamboat but failed, at SNME June Ted Dibiase managed to pin Hogan in a tag match between the 2, Dibiase kept saying that this meant he deserved a WWF title shot but Hogan wasn't letting him go that easily challenging him to a NO1 Contendership match at KOTR. On the show, Hogan was taken out and replaced by Ricky Steamboat who won the match, Hogan feels like Dibiase bribed Steamboat to do this and Dibiase just attacked him wanting an actual match against him and it was set for Summerslam.

Rick Rude won King of the Ring and now he will face Bret Hart for the Intercontinental Championship, Bret has been champion for a year now and seems unstoppable, Rude has been distracting Bret in tag matches leading to a losing streak for Hart Foundation which is not making Jim Neidhart happy.

Honky Tonk Man started a 7 match series where if he got more wins than losses, he would get a WWF Championship match, but if he got more losses his career on WWF would be over, he felt like this would spark a fire on him as he hadn't won 1 match in WWF yet, it clearly helped as on the 1st match he defeated Roddy Piper with Rick Rude distracting Piper, HTM would try to get easy challengers as he introduced a local talent named The Blue Blazer but was also defeated by him at Superstars 100, HTM showed more aggression as he's now 3-3, he challenged the injured Koko B.Ware to his last match and people are unsure if Koko will be able to show up.

Strike Force won the World Tag Team Championships at Superstars 100 but were forced to vacate it 4 days later due to an injury of Rick Martel, a tournament started, Full Nelson Bam and Demolition advanced onto the semi finals while The Naturals advanced immediatly into the finals as Orndorff & Kamala forfeited the tournament after winning their quarter finals match.

Ever since a failed reunion between The Islanders, Haku has been destroying people left and right, at Superstars 93 Haku was put in a tag match teaming with Jim Duggan, they won but after the match Haku proceeded to beat the crap out of Duggan for no reason, Haku ended his feud with Tama at SNME June by putting him on a choke during 2 minutes and the match had to be called off, on the Superstars after SNME June, Duggan managed to roll up Haku to beat him pissing him off and putting a target on his back as Haku made sure Jim Duggan lost his MITB Briefcase to Sting, Haku and Duggan had a match to decide the stipulation of their match at Summerslam, Haku won and chose a Loser Leaves WWF Match.

Ultimate Warrior squashed Paul Orndorff at SNME May in an open challenge, Kamala tried to ambush him but Sting debuted and Bladerunners(Sting and Warrior) took them out, Orndorff and Kamala have been trying to beat up Bladerunners but Bladerunners don't even care about them as they had better stuff to do, Orndorff & Kamala managed to defeat them at Superstars 103 in the quarter finals of the World Tag Team Championship tournament but immediatly forfeited as they wanted a match against Bladerunners again at Summerslam, since Sting already had a match Warrior would be forced to pick a new partner.

Nick, Greg Valentine, Brutus Beefcake and Barry Horowitz were all eliminated in the quarter finals of the KOTR Tournament and now they have to have a match where the pinned guy gets suspended until November.

## Details

* Tama returns and helps Haku win the match turning heel
* Ultimate Warrior chose The Blue Blazer as his partner, after the match Blazer rolled Warrior up to win the 24/7 championship and with that officially became signed to WWF
* The Naturals were attacked by Roberts and Piper before the match who took their spot
* Sting vs Ricky Steamboat was 1987's MOTY