G1 Finals (1992)

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G1 Finals 1992 was the eighth G1 Finals event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 11th October 1992.

## Background

The main match heading into the show is WWF Champion Hulk Hogan vs Sycho Sid. At RAW after Wrestlemania where Hulk Hogan welcomed everyone to the brand split and a new era, Sycho Sid immediatly targeted him as he beat him up wanting to end Hogan's career after he ended Snuka's at Wrestlemania 8. Sid would form a group with Randy Savage and Steiner Brothers called Empire as they feuded with Hogan and Koko for most of the summer, they split away for a while as Hogan defeated Koko B.Ware for his 4th WWF Championship reign. During the G1 tournament, Sid set his sights yet again on Hogan as he big booted him backstage, this cost him the G1 win as the Smackdown afterwards, Jim Duggan put Sid in the sudden death match as consequence of the attack and made it a no DQ match so Hogan showed up and made sure Sid was eliminated. After this, Sid still challenged Hogan for the title which Hogan accepted

This year the G1 Tournament Final Match will be between Bret Hart and Ric Flair, after 2 months of eliminations, Bret defeated Scott and Rick Steiner, Ric Flair defeated Lex Luger and Jerry Lawler to get this spot, the winner will be getting a WWF Championship shot next month at Survivor Series. Both men are Four Horsemen members but they have said that it's every man for himself when it comes to G1's, Royal Rumble's or any title wins and respect each other as wrestlers.

IRS won a NO1 contendership match in an episode of Smackdown but gave it away to his mentor Ted Dibiase, Ted Dibiase started taunting World Heaviweight Champion Tatanka as he managed to Yokozuna to Million Dollar Corporation, who was one of Tatanka's closest friends who helped him get the title. Although, this feud has become much less important for Dibiase as Yokozuna was kidnapped and beaten up by Doink The Clown and Barry Horowitz has requested everyone's help to take down Doink calling him a "real danger", Tatanka will face Dibiase tonight but always with a looming threat that Doink could be near

Demolition started demolishing the RAW tag team division as soon as the brand split started, when they didn't get tag title shots and kept destroying everything, Jim Duggan sent them to Smackdown where they quickly won the World Tag Team Championships. They have tormented Bobby Heenan and at Summerslam made a declaration as they attacked Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels, they wanted to become the first ever co-champions of a singles title, Heenan refused to give them the handicap match until Demolition threatened to put a chair through Heenan's leg, Heenan saw himself forced to give them the match but was injured anyways. Heenan promises that he will find something that will demolish Demolition from within but for tonight Shawn Michaels is forced to defend in an Intercontinental Championship Match

Bob Backlund has began a midlife crisis gimmick just saying babbling nonsense whenever he gets the chance, Owen Hart had just finished an European Championship match when Backlund attacked him with a crossface chicken wing and challenged him to a title match which Owen accepted to put an end to this nonsense

At In Your House 4, Koko B.Ware lost the WWF Championship to Hulk Hogan in a triple threat match also involving Mr.Perfect. He had his rematch 2 weeks later but lost after Perfect interfered and gave Hogan the win because by Perfect's words, he wants to be the one to end Hogan's WWF Championship reign, to end what was once the greatest in WWF. Koko was pissed and attacked Perfect in the following week which led to Jim Duggan making a match between the 2 with the NO1 Contendership for the European Championship in line, neither men seemed happy about this as they want the WWF Championship

## Results

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## Details

* Owen Hart defeated Bob Backlund in 1 minute
* Due to this, Owen says it's time for Backlund to hang up the boots and he would love to be the one retiring Backlund. Backlund screams that he is in the best shape of his career and he will never retire and locks in the crossface chicken wing on Owen, Koko comes out for the save but gets big booted by a returning Razor Ramon who also razor's edges Owen once Backlund drops him
* A balloon shows up during the world title match and Horowitz quickly pops it and he screams for Doink to come out. Lights go out and Doink has replaced Tatanka in the ring and chokes out Dibiase, Horowitz enters the ring and manages to push out Doink, the lights go back out and Doink is gone, they go back out again and this time Doink is slowly rising up on Horowitz's back and snaps his neck
* Bobby Heenan and Jim Duggan announce that at Survivor Series it'll be Team RAW vs Team Smackdown with the winners not only getting randomized title shots but also the next month's PPV Brand exclusive
* Ric Flair and Bret Hart shake hands after the match