Summerslam (1991)

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Summerslam 1991 was the seventh Summerslam event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 11th August 1991

## Background

The main match heading into Summerslam is WWF Champion Haku in a gauntlet match against the New Generation. Haku has been completely dominating WWF ever since his WWF Championship win at G1 Finals 1990 as he calls himself the single best New Generation talent, Tito Santana took offense to that and did the best promo of his career calling out Haku on his bullshit that he barely even faces New Generation talent only limiting himself to the old guys of the Golden Age, he says ever since 1985 with Haku joining Heenan Family everything has been handed to him, they brawled and Tito was the first person since Andre The Giant to take down Haku with his fury. Haku was furious at this statement and says nobody worked harder than he has to get to the spot where he is, so he decides to take Tito up for the challenge as he faces as many men who wanna fight him as possible in a gauntlet match

Rick Martel started 1990 by calling out Hulk Hogan telling him it was time for the New Generation of talent to step up, but Martel would be defeated by Hogan at SNME May 1990 in 5 minutes, Martel went off in the first worked shoot promo saying how Hogan is Vince's golden boy and everyone is too chicken to step up to him and he was suspended due to his actions, once he returned he continued pissing off Hogan as at Summerslam 1990 he made sure Hogan lost the title to Undertaker, they had another match during the G1 and this one lasted 10 minutes but Hogan still defeated him, at Wrestlemania 7 Martel picked up the upset of the night as he rolled up and defeated Hogan. At SNME June 1991, Hogan and Martel were both in the MITB match and Martel managed to grab the briefcase while Hogan was punching him, tonight they face each other in a ladder match for the briefcase to culminate their feud

Jim Neidhart had been tormenting Bret Hart as the Invisible Man since 1985, after Bret Hart's win against Neidhart at Wrestlemania 7, he demanded to know only 1 thing, who was behind the creation of the invisible man cape as he knew Jim Neidhart wasn't a powerful mystic being to create such thing, Neidhart said it was Papa Shango but he has no idea who or where he is, at King of the Ring 1991, in the KOTR finals between Bret Hart and British Bulldog, Papa Shango revealed himself choking out Bulldog and Bret without even touching them, he's this weird voodoo guy, Bret is hoping to end this Invisible Man chapter of his life defeating the Mystic Papa Shango tonight

At King of the Ring 1990, British Bulldog won the tournament and went on to Summerslam to be defeated by Koko B.Ware for the Intercontinental Championship, Ringmasters tried to get him to join them but Bulldog responded with a lowblow and joining Dusty Rhodes. At Wrestlemania 7, after learning a lot Bulldog defeated Dusty and joined The Ringmasters, now he's been on a roll becoming the first man to win King of the Ring twice, he faces Randy Savage tonight who's also been going on the roll of his career since returning at Wrestlemania 7

Speaking about Ringmasters, Roddy Piper wants to revitalize his career and asks to join them, Texas Tornado responds that Ringmasters have to have some very good quality ring work, and Piper's days might be behind him, Roddy Piper asks for a chance and Mr.Perfect says that if Piper can have a great match with the worst WWF wrestler Bushwhacker Butch, he will join Ringmasters, Piper accepts that offer

Ted Dibiase brought Legion of Doom to WWF as they formed Million Dollar Corporation, later Dibiase paid the former Mike Rotunda to join the group as well being renamed IRS. At Wrestlemania 7, LOD defeated Demolition to become tag team champions when Dibiase and IRS showed up bribing Gorilla Monsoon and immediatly getting a tag title match backstabbing LOD in the process, of course they got the win easily. LOD look to have their revenge on their backstabbing partners tonight

The Rockers have not been doing good teamwork for a while, constantly losing matches and going on heated discussions with each other, they decided that they should face the weakest tag team so far on WWF Beverly Brothers to maybe see what needs to be fixed within their team

## Details

* After the first match, Texas Tornado and Mr.Perfect showed up and shook hands with Piper seemingly confirming his inclusion on The Ringmasters
* During the ladder match, Hogan "broke" his shoulder, this "injury" was just so Hogan could take a few months off to cool down from the steroid trial
* Bulldog is celebrating with Ringmasters when Mr.Perfect throws him down and he and Tornado beat him up, Roddy Piper comes out to join them but Perfect and Tornado stare at him and Bret Hart attacks Piper, Bret Hart is the third member of The Ringmasters as Bret, Tornado and Perfect turn heel
* Shawn Michaels went for the sweet chin music on Beau Beverly who ducked and Shawn accidentally hit Jannetty leading to his rollup, Jannetty and Shawn argued afterwards and Jannetty left
* This was Yokozuna's debut
* In the final match, Bret and Perfect are hitting Haku with chairshots when he gets up, gets a chair through his head and doesn't feel a thing as he headbutts both men
* In the ending, Bret has Haku on the sharpshooter when Piper hits Bret in the head with a chair, the rest of The Ringmasters come out to help Bret but British Bulldog comes out to help Piper, Bret puts Haku in the sharpshooter again but Haku starts reverse headbutting him, hits him with a piledriver and wins