Summerslam (1998)

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Summerslam 1998 was the 14th Summerslam event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 16th August 1998

## Background

The main match heading into Summerslam is Jeff Jarrett defending the WWF Championship against Stone Cold. Jarrett cashed in his MITB contract against Austin at King of the Ring as he shook hands with Vince Mcmahon and joined The Corporation, Jarrett explained that he never planned on joining Vince until Austin kept attacking him because he didn't trust him, Vince said that if Austin interfered in any match or caused any brawl throught these 4 weeks, he would be suspended and wouldn't have his match tonight, Austin still went ahead and beat up both Vince and Jarrett and got himself suspended, a fatal 4 way happened for NO1 contendership but Austin returned, took out Undertaker and proceeded to win the match, Vince still suspended him until Summerslam but he's trying everything to make sure he doesn't get the title back

The Rock felt like he should be the leader of Nation of Domination and Faaroq was pissed saying he MADE The Rock what he is, they decided to have a match against each other and if Rock can win, he can become NOD's leader at Survivor Series but Faaroq hit him with brass knuckles to get the cheap win. Rock didn't remember this as he respected Faaroq for this win but he would come back when he's ready, multiple wrestlers started laughing at Rock due to him not knowing what happened so Rock sat down and watched the Survivor Series footage as he saw that Faaroq cheated to win, he was pissed and said he wasn't a real man to lead this black power stable, he ended up defeating him at Royal Rumble 1998 to become the new leader of NOD. It took some weeks but Faaroq accepted his spot and endorsed him as the leader, they joined The Corporation and The Rock became a 2 time intercontinental champion in the same night Faaroq won King of the Ring, Faaroq and The Rock were set to face Bradshaw and Ahmed Johnson but Faaroq attacked Rock while Bradshaw attacked Ahmed as Faaroq chose to face the intercontinental champion, he claims The Rock isn't an upgraded Rocky Maivia, he's just a wannabe Faaroq

The Union's Dr.Death and european champion Dan Severn started beating up IC champion Ken Shamrock for no reason, Shamrock tried to take the european championship but failed in a 6 men package. At King of the Ring, Severn cost Shamrock the IC title against The Rock, Shamrock won a 20 men battle royal to become NO1 contender and won a beat the clock challenge to choose tonight's stipulation as a lion's den weapons match

Paul Bearer turned on Undertaker and started to say that he was gonna unveil Taker's secret and that "Kane is coming". On an episode of RAW, Bearer finally revealed that in 1981, Undertaker put his house on fire as he killed his mother, father and brother BUT what he didn't know is that HIS BROTHER MADE IT OUT ALIVE and he's coming for revenge. At Badd Blood, during a HIAC match between Shawn and Undertaker, Kane made his debut as he ripped the cage door apart and tombstone'd Taker, Taker intially refused to face his younger brother as he felt remorse for what he did but he kept having segments talking to an unknown man who said it'd be better if Kane was taken out as soon as possible for their plans not to be ruined. Kane continued taunting Taker by beating up his members of the Ministry of Darkness, Taker accepted a match against Kane but only if he could defeat MOD in a gauntlet match which Kane did last pinning Undertaker in 16 SECONDS, Undertaker now felt no remorse and said he wouldn't fail to kill Kane this time, at Wrestlemania 14 after 3 tombstones Undertaker defeated Kane. He wasn't done with him as Bearer challenged Taker to Kane's speciality match, an inferno match. At Unforgiven, Viscera, Jacqueline, Edge, Christian and Gangrel debuted making sure Ministry of Darkness didn't interrupt as Kane picked up the win. Kane continued targeting Ministry of Darkness with his new stable Ministry of Fire, going as far as knocking the stage down and almost crushing Ministry of Darkness in half, Undertaker didn't care as he only wanted to make the higher power happy as he went for the WWF title, Vince Mcmahon decided to make both men happy as tonight it'll be Ministry of Fire vs Ministry of Darkness with the winner's leader becoming the NO1 conender to the WWF Championship

Ahmed and Bradshaw were tag team champions in early '96 but as soon as Ahmed started going into the WWF title contendership, he quickly forgot about Bradshaw, this was proven as Ahmed was given the choice of either continuing his WWF title match or saving Bradshaw from Ministry of Darkness and he chose the first option, Bradshaw was pissed beating up Ahmed, they had a no DQ match in an episode of RAW which Ahmed won but this feud never continued as Ahmed was released after Summerslam 1996. Bradshaw tried to join The Corporation but Vince was offended that a lowcard would say that to him so he put him in a tag match against Faaroq and The Rock, Bradshaw chose the returning Ahmed Johnson as his teammate but as soon as the match began Faaroq turned on Rock and Bradshaw turned on Ahmed, Bradshaw will fight with Ahmed tonight in a match no one wants to see

After Sunny's promise to Headbangers that they could do anything they want with her if they won the tag titles which motivated them more than ever as they rose up the tag team rankings, they defeated Hardy Boyz and Legion of Devils to become NO1 contenders to New Age Outlaws' tag team championships

Shane Mcmahon started being involved in the LW division with a great match against Scorpio in a ladder match, he challenged Jeff Hardy for the title but Scorpio invaded it as he thought this was bias because Shane was Vince's son, Scorpio was quickly suspended due to his vile comments about former LW champion Brian Pillman's death, Shane revealed that at Summerslam it would be a huge 6 men elimination match for the LW title between Jeff, Dick Togo, Funaki, Gillberg, X-Pac and Shane Mcmahon in a big LW showcase

Owen Hart joined DX at Royal Rumble 1998 but that quickly ended as every member of DX turned on Shawn Michaels, Owen stood with Shawn but he also ended up turning on him to join Jim Cornette's The Union who were building up a feud against Vince's The Corporation(which Shawn was a member of) Shawn attacked Owen during a G1 qualifying match against Mr.Imperfect Al Snow which made him lose, Owen quickly got his revenge as he made Shawn lose against Crash Holly also in a G1 qualifying match, Shawn attacked Owen on the locker room and Vince decided that only 1 man could be in the G1 as they would settle it in a match

Lilith(Sable) asked Lucifer(Marc Mero) if being in the Ministry of Darkness was the best use of their talents, Lucifer was pissed at what she said and a week after he threw a rock on her head to knock her out as he gave her to Undertaker for them to harness energy for the higher power, The Blue Guy, Gillberg and Mr.Imperfect Al Snow made their debut as the Blue World Order to save Sable but as soon as they entered the ring, they knew they were dead, The Union showed up and took out all of MOD as BWO pretended they were the ones who saved Sable, Lucifer tried to get Sable back but she refused so Lucifer decided to challenge her to a intergender match tonight

Ever since Undertaker threw Mankind off the top of the cell at Summerslam 1997, his mind has been split within 3 personalities who don't know of each other's existance and have certain gimmicks: Mankind, a twisted maniac who enjoys pain and wants revenge on Undertaker; Cactus Jack, an extreme legend that has a tag team with Terry Funk and Dude Love, a dude who just wants to dance and feel the groove. Cactus and Funk won the tag titles at Wrestlemania even with Cactus switching his personalities a bit during the match, everytime he turned into Dude he didn't know who Funk was and wanted to challenge him for the tag titles which Funk obviously refused as his tag team partner was another personality of Mick Foley, Terry just wanted his friend to go back to his normal state so he attacked him and chairshotted his head in hopes that he would go back to being mentally stable, when this failed Terry challenged Dude Love to a hell in a cell match so he could re-experience the trauma and hopefully realize that Foley is all 3 of his personalities, Terry threw Dude Love off the top of the cell and Love did a Taker sit-up staring at Funk, the week afterwards he acted like both Dude Love and Mankind during a promo so Terry challenged him to one last match: a barbed wire last man standing match

During a NO1 contendership fatal 4 way to the WWF Championship, Kurt Angle and Steve Blackman targeted each other with Angle almost beating him to become contender if it wasn't for Austin showing up and winning it himself, they were both in a NO1 contender battle royal to the European Championship and eliminated each other, they had a one on one match which ended in a double countout so they will settle their feud tonight

## Details

* The Rock enters the ring, puts the IC title on the ground, goes to the stage and picks up a mic as he says he forfeits because he's got better things to do than to hold this belt, Faaroq is mad because he wanted to beat up Rock, Rock shakes hands with Vince on the stage
* Al grabs Lucifer's feet, Lucifer and the ref complain with him and Sable lowblows Lucifer AND POWERBOMBS HIM to win
* Undertaker picks up his urn, says some demonic words and The Brood, Jacqueline and Viscera turn on Kane as Ministry of Darkness win like this
* Bradshaw vs Ahmed begins and the crowd immediatly starts booing, it's like this for 30 seconds until The Union appears and beats both men up, Jim Cornette tells Vince that it's time for this sports entertainment bullshit to fuck off, he demands that one of the blocks for G1 is exclusive for professional wrestlers and all 4 of his men to be in it. Vince comes out and says Cornette can suck his nuts, gives him the middle finger and leaves
* Terry Funk clothslines Foley onto the ropes and he gets caught in barbed wire, Mankind is enjoying the pain but starts screaming "MY EAR, FUNK GET ME OUT" so Funk helps him. He gets a mic and says he's not Dude Love, he's not Mankind, he's not Cactus Jack, HE'S MICK FUCKING FOLEY, HE IS ALL OF THEM. Funk's objective was to make Foley relieve a painful Cactus Jack moment(when Sid Vicious threw him into barbed wire and his ear was ripped off) so he could get back all his memories, Funk hugs Foley as Foley says "I was in the rumble 3 times, my ear is gone because of a Sid match, I'm a former tag match, Pac betrayed me but most importantly HE'S COMING FOR THE DEADMAN"
* After the main event, Austin shaves off Jarrett's hair