History of WWE SummerSlam 1993: Hulk Hogan vs Bret Hart Cancelled

Explore the history of WWE SummerSlam 1993, one of the most intriguing events of the early ’90s. Although the highly anticipated Hulk Hogan vs. Bret Hart match was cancelled, the card still delivered exciting bouts, including high-stakes tag team matches, championship contests, and unforgettable moments from WWE’s biggest stars. Get the full rundown of matches, outcomes, and backstage stories from SummerSlam ’93.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a prime time with Sean Mooney Production History Channel,
Legend History Channel, Time of thirty the Wrestling History Channel

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from the failed push of Lex Luger to Brett Hart
being denied a Hulk cogin match SummerSlam nineteen tenenty three.
Welcome to the Wrestling History Channel. I'm sifault On. Today
we're talking about the history of the nineteen ninety three SummerSlam. Now,
if you remember, this is a weird time in the WWF.

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Is it the Golden Era? Is the New Generation era?
We are in a transitional period here at SummerSlam nineteen
tenenty three, taking place in August thirtieth, nineteen ninety three,
the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan. Now, I bet
a lot of fans out there attended this event who
are watching this video, so please in the comments let

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me know your experience, because for some people this might
be their favorite Summer Slam, this might be the worst
Summer Slam to sign people. So there's a lot of
feelings around these events, and so the history of the
Wrestling History Channel will try to tiptoe around your childhood.
But the big thing about this is it's the first

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WWF pay perview without Hulk Cogan, Ultimate Warrior or the
Machaman Randy Savage in action. Now, we did go to
WrestleMania nine where Cogin competed, winning the World Championship in
a controversial fashion at the end of that evening, almost
winning the tag team titles early in the night. Machamen

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is on commentary in Warrior is nowhere to be seen
at WrestleMania nine, got fired at Survivor Series nineteen ninety
two a little bit before that. So let's take a
breather for a minute. The Golden Era to me officially
is dead. Well, you have no Hogan, no Warrior, and
no Savage Wrestling. That begins for me at least the end.

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And I have talked to Sean Mooney, who used to
work for the WWF for many years during the Golden Era.
We have a podcast about the Golden Era, and he
has shared so many stories about when did the Golden
Era die? He says at the end of nineteen ninety two.
I sang in the summer of nineteen ninety three. But
we'll discuss that here. Now. The main event heading into

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this is Lex Luger versus Yoko Zuna for the WWF Championship.
Previous to this, Lex Luger was a bad guy. He
was the narcissist. He was supposed to be, you know,
the antithesis of gorgeous body look at him. WBF the
World Body League Federation that Vince McMahon had for a

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little while also say selling protein powder, I go pro
fitsick Man had a heart on for big dudes with
big muscles, and Lex Lugur was brought in from WCW
not to wrestle, but to be the face of his
body building league. Well, steroids become a big problem in that.

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So no longer are these athletes gigantic and bulging and huge. Yeah, nope,
they all lose their muscle mass like a balloon losing
its air. Boo gone. That league disappears, but Lex Luger
is still here. We gotta do something with them. In
nineteenenty three Royal Rumble, they make him nake his debut.

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He's a narcissist and he's here as Bobby Heenan's new apprentice. Well,
we need someone to replace Hull Cogan as mister America, right,
because Hull cogin he won the world title at Wrestlment nine.
He loses it at Kindlering nineteen ninety three, just a
few months before SummerSlam. So we need a new guy

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we can all rally behind. Why choose Bret Hard He
was doing really well in early excuse me, late ninety two,
early ninety three. No, no, no, no no. We need
someone to be mister America again. And that's when Lex Sluger,
on July fourth, flies down on a helicopter, lands on

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the Intrepid, the USS Intrepid, this giant vessel, this navy
vessel is there, and the WWF decides to have a
body slam competition, bring an NFL, NBA, bringing some celebrities
and try to body slam their current world champion five
hundred and five pounds Yokozuna. No one can do it.

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Crush can't do it, Macho man can't do it. But
out of nowhere, what's that? What's that? What's that? Oh?
It's Lex Sluger, who was a bad guy just a
few days before kind of nowhere, shows up in a helicopter.
He's wearing a US say T shirt. Bobby Heenes is managing,
is very confused. He's on the boat. He's like what's
going on. Lexus pushes him to a side, and Lex

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Sugar comes in uses the metal plate that is in
Lex Luger's arm that will come to play here in
the storyline, Don't you worry. Metal plate bops Yukko in
the face, body slams him. Suddenly everyone loves Lex Slugar
because he body slammed Yoko Zuna, And now we have
a new Hule Cogan. But it's Lex Luger. H h

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whole Cogan l L Lex Luger. I bet that was
Vince's logic too. Yeah, Hey, Hogan, Lex Slugar L. It's
the same thing. There are letters on the alphabet, they're
both the sien. That's what I imagine is happening. But it's
just so such a weird transitional year, Boss Man, Earthquake,

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Hogan Savage. So many people are just missing from this,
this event and all the things that we're building out
to it. But one of the major controversies in backstage
drama heading into this event was Breth the Hitman Heart
being told by Vince McMahon. It is all in Bert

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Hart's book. Bert Hart says that Vince tells him at
Summer Slam it's gonna be Brett the Hitman Heart versus
Hulk Hogan. Now you can find this image online. I
have the magazine as well, and it's Hogan and Brett
doing a tug of war over the WWF Championship. Clearly,
when you get a magazine that says they're having a

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tug of war over the championship, We're heading into Summer Slam,
second biggest event of the year. Brett's gonna be Hogan.
Hogan's gonna put over Brett. Oh my god, where canna
get it? Oh no, no, no, no, no, nope, nope,
that does not happen. Hulk Hogan portally says he refuses

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to lose to Bret the Hitman Heart, but he will
lose to Yoko Zuna. He loses to Yokozu, King of
the Ring. Boom, Hogan's gone. Now Brett is sitting there like,
oh shit, okay, well, what the f am I supposed
to do? Vince McMahon allegedly told conflicting stories to both men, saying, yes, Brett,

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you're gonna beat Hogan. Don't worry Hogan, you don't have
to lose to Brett. Well, Brett the Hitman Heart got
Hogan and got Vince in the same room, asked him
the same questions, and Vince McMahon realized he got caught.
Brett Hart, though in his book, also realized he was
in the middle of a divorce. Hogan and Vince were

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not pleased with each other on both sides of the
table money Championships respect Both men have built the WWF
since what the early eighties, and now here we are
in nineteen ninety three and things aren't doing very well.
Business is no longer booming, the steroid trial and Hogan's

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face is all over the news about steroids and professional wrestling. Well,
apparently Vince lied to everybody, and Brett, how it, realized
he was a pawn in the game between Vince and
Hulk Cogan. So we do never We never get the
Hogan versus Brett Hart match in the WWF. You get
it in WCW. But come on, Hogan owned everything in WCW.

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He owned a portion in the WWF, but Vince was
in charge WCW. Shit. Hulk Hogan could have said like, uh, listen,
brother Eric Bischoff, I'm gonna I'm gonna beat everybody one match,
dude into then I'll just go home with all the
championships into the All Show. But I feel like it.
Eric most likely would have said, Okay, that sounds good,

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as long as you show up the next you know,
four months. But this changed Summer Slam. Instead, we had
Lex Luger and Yoko instead of Brett versus Hogan. I
much rather would have seen Brett Hart versus hul Kogan. Now, again,
these are all Brett's words in his books, so we're

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taking Brett Hart's word for it. Now, Lex Luger's failed push,
let's talk about that, because, as I said, vis Man
tried to make Lex Luger the next Hulkgan, and he
even got a bus, dowled it all up in red,
white and blue, called it the Lex Express, and the

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Lex Express was a patriotic tour traveling around the country
promoting Lex Luger, the WWF and SummerSlam. We are underneath
the impression that we are building a brand new babyface
to be our new hul Cogan, to be our new
world champion, because Brett Hart certainly is not going to
be that guy. Lex Luger is perfect cool as a kid.

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I was thinking, I love Brett Hart, but if the
company's telling me to love Lex Sluger. Well, I'm a
little kid and I don't know any better, so let's
go Lex. Well. Lex Luger at this event is supposed
to be the world champion. At the end of the evening,
He's supposed to be celebrating, right with the world title,

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the USA flag, balloons and all the celebration of fireworks.
He's a new world champion. He defeated that foreigner, Yoko Zuna. No,
Lex Luger does celebrate with the United States flag. He
does celebrate with balloons fall from the sky. He does
celebrate with wrestlers holding him up, not as world champion.

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Lex Luger wins by count out. He hits Yoka in
the face with his foreign object in his arm, the
metal player, remember callback metal plate. Yoko falls out of
the ring. Well, he gets counted out. Lex Lugar he
celebrates like he won the goddamn world championship. He didn't
win the world title. He didn't, but they play it

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off like it's the greatest thing in the world, Like
can you believe it? He did it. Going to rumors,
Lex Luger was supposed to go off and carry this
into WrestleMania ten in Madison Square Garden. What they yo
go in Lex or on opposite teams At Suravers Series

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nineteen eighty three. Okay, Roy Rumble ninety four, Lex Luger
wins the Roy Rumble with Bert Hart. Two people they
even knew a taping where Alex Luger comes out with
the World Championship to kind of feel off the audience.
The audience hasn't does no idea what's happening. And again,
this is not social media days where I could easily

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get my phone and oh my god, record it and
then post it on TikTok or somewhere. And everyone has
seen that Lex Luger is holding the world Championship. Okay,
so the trying things out they're scene. If Lex can
get the crowd going, even as a false world champion,
we get the wrest many A ten. Lex Luger does
not win the championship. Brett Hart does. So. From Summerslim

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ninety three to Wrestle Any of ten, we're still in
Lex Luger's camp. We're supposed to be rooting him, but yeah,
for some change reason, we're all behind Brett Hart too.
And then Brett Hart wins the world championship. It's very
baffling where the Lex Luger experiment could have easily been

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fixed here at Summerslim nineteen ninety three, with Luger beating
Yoko for the world title, he doesn't be world champion forever.
He could have lost at a house show, because if
Rick Flair lost his world title at a house show
to Brett Hart, the tag team title certainly changed hands
at house shows. In her continental title has changed hands
at house shows. Why can't Lex a little tippy toe

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of world title time and then lose? I never did it.
It was a failed experiment. But the WW celebrating like
Lex Lugur won the championship was very confusing to the
audience because you're thinking, like, okay, he won by count out,

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Like I think the balloons covered the people booing because
you eventually the screen is just covered in balloons and
confetti and there's Diner Brothers and mych other. I'll celebrate
with Yoko. He won the damn world title. He didn't.
It's uh bizarre, But Bert Hart he's not gonna fight

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Hult Cogin at Summer Slam, so he needs someone to
fight who's equal to Hult, Cogin could be like Undertaker.
You know, maybe maybe raisor Ramone, maybe know the man. Nope,
it's a guy who does commentary. Jerry the King Lawler
her the King Muler is also an active wrestler, but

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he is not looking like a superstar. He's just come
in recently in nineteen earlier in ninety three, and he's
supposed to take the place of Hope Cogan versus Brett Hart.
So Bert Hart is thinking, what the hell is this shit?
I was supposed to fight for the world title against Yoko,
excuse me, against Hogan, and now I'm gonna fight Jerry Lawler.

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Now this turns out to be an amazing three year
storyline between Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler. It becomes a
great storyline. It does. Yet m I don't. In Bert
Hart's book, he even says like I was not excited
about this, but I was gonna make the best of
it because he is the best there is, the best

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there was, and the best there ever will be. Now. Originally,
Bert Hart defeats Doink the Clown by its qualification because
Jerry Lawler is apparently injured so he can't compete against
Brett Hart. He's pretending to be hurt, So we get

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Bret Hart versus Dunk the Clown again. A good match,
but I can't imagine Brett was like, I can't wait
to fight Doink instead of Hultk Cogan for the world title.
And the reason Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler are fighting
is because Brett Hart won the nineteen ninety three King
of the Ring tournament. That's the same event that Hogan

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lost the world title to Yoko Zuna. Brett Hart beat
three men that night. Do we get King of the Ring?
Jerry Lawler attacks Brett Hart after because Jerry Lawler he
wants to be the only king in the WWF. Okay,
these storylines all make sense, they're all adding up. It's
just I can't imagine how disappointed Brettart would be if

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he went from Hulk Cogan to Doink to kind of
fight Jerry Lawler. Because Lawler fakes an injury to have
Dunk the Clown Wrreussell for breath Russell Bret the Hitman
Heart instead Jerry Lawler that attacks Brett Hart with a
crutch afterwards, revealing the ruse He was never injured, so
Brett Hart snaps and gets a sharpshooter on for three minutes,

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according to Brett Hart, purposely trying to hurt Jerry Lawler's knees.
So now the decision is reversed and Jerry Lawler is
declared the winner by disqualification because Brett Heart wouldn't let
go of the sharpshooter after it was revealed Jerry Lawler
wasn't hurt and he could compete so Bert Hat, Russell

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Doink and Jerry Lawler back to back at SummerSlam nineteen
ninety three. Now the question is is why does Brett
Hart really want to hurt Jerry the King Lawler. I'm
guessing Brett Hart saw vincecmann in Hult Cogan's face on
Jerry Lawler's body as he held that sharp shooter in
Bernhart realized said in his book that he had three
minutes he could just sit there and lean back as

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hard as he wanted to and punish Jerry Lawler. Now,
Jerry Lawler has made some smart ass comments about Bert
Hart's family, some of them Jerry Lawler would tell Brett Hey,
I'm gonna say some insults about your mom. Okay, But
Jerry Lawler didn't realize that Bert Hart loves his mommy
and daddy more than anything in the world, besides winning

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championships and besides hating Goldberg. Of course, so Jerry Lawler
decided to say beyond defensive things about Stu and Helen
Hart on television and they aired him all. Berhart did
not like this, and that is why we have a
three minute sharp shooter where Brett is pulling back as
hard as he can on this. Now, this would start

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real life view between Jerry Lawler and Bert Hart, but
also JERRYL. Loler realized sometimes when you go too far,
the receipt is coming, and Jerry Lowler received that receipt
and after this, eventually they become better in friends than
they continue their storyline for years, leading into a kiss
my Foot match at King of the Ring a few
years later. Though, Dort does have a water prank because

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Donk de Clown he's known for. You know, here's a
little he's a little toy for you and I'll rip
the head off. Here's a balloon, I'll pop it. Well,
he has a bucket of water. He's supposed to throw
confetti because sometimes he has two buckets. One has confetti
one has water. Sometimes I told the confetti at a
kid hahaha and laugh and run away because he tricked

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the kid. Well, doink the clown when he's coming down.
Because Bruce Hart and Owen Heart are a ring side
doing through a bucket of water, no confetti on Bruce Hart.
Bruce was not told about this ahead of time, causing
him to lose his shit live on air. If you

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watch this event, if you check it out, it's an
okay event, so you can check it out pieces of
it again. But if you watch it, Bruce loses his mind.
He's trying to jump the guardrail. Security and owner like no, no, no, no, no, Like,
you're not part of the show. You stay there, you
stay behind the guard rail. I'll never forget that moment.
Bruce looks pissed. Berhart confirmed Owenhart warned doing not to

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get him wet or they be paidback because Owen Heart
notorious for ribbing people, so clearly doing say, okay, I
won't get Owen Heart wet. Because he actually works here
every single day, Bruce Hart is here as a guest someone.
Bruce is trying to get himself into the company, pitching
storylines for him trying to return to the ring, trying

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to fight Brett Hart and storylines. He pitches a pretty
good one for Savors Series nineteen ninety three, which I
will talk about later on in a nineteen ninety three
cybri Series review History of Sybaceries video. That is so bruce.
He was always trying to get himself back into the
wrestling world. Sad things about this summer though, is this

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is the end of the Million Dollar Man Ted de
Biassi's run. He wrestles Razor Ramon, he loses, and it's
his final match in the WWF before leaving due to
personal and marital issues. Million Dollar Man does come back
as a manager, managing the Million Dollar Corporation, doing commentary

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as well at Roy Rumbold nine ninety four, but this
is the end of his injuring competition and he would
go to w CW in a few years as the benefactor,
the man who's supposed to be funding the nWo O. Well,
NWL got pretty plievarlier and Eric Berschoff was like, wait
a minute, I should get in this too, and that
ends Million Dollar Man's big run. There manages the Steiner

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Brothers and uh, it's got a pretty cool podcast. But
this is the end of the Million Dollar Man's run.
And think about it, because when he came in, he
had those vignettes He's wearing a cape. He ended up
working with Andre, paying Andre to win him the world title,
having the best storylines with Jake to Snake, Roberts and

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Hult Cogan, Million Dolar Man, Top five Wrestlers, Top five
carriacters to the Golden Era. You know you have Hogan,
you have Savage, you have Warnior, Jacob Snake, Milliondola Man,
everybody else. I love to death, Big Boss Man, Hacksaw,
Jim Duggan, you know Earthquake, Typhoon, Bushwhackers, Rodney piper Is
Snooka all great, Billion Dela Man. Top five. You decide

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where you put him in your top five, but Million
Dollar Man is a top five of the Golden Era
of the WWF. Mendela Mann later did reveal he left
focus on his real life and his and his wife
in his religion. He eventually becomes a born again Christian
because in his podcast, as many books, he's said, he

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cheated on his wife a lot. He was on the road,
you know, three hundred days a year, doing drugs, sleeping,
with women living the rock and roll lifestyle, and some
people love that life lifestyle. But when he has a
wife and kids at home, well, I'm guessing his wife
and kids do not like the idea that their dad
is always gone and that her husband is cheating on her. Yes,

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he's bringing home millions of dollars, but after wrestling, what's
left family through real life? When the crowd is done
cheering your name, when the crowd is done, when Vince
is done with you, gotta go home nor cheers, No
more big paydays. Just be a father, be a husband.
So he became a born again Christian and things seem

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to be working out for him now. So congratulations. The
intern Continental title is also on the line here, Sean
Michaels versus mister Perfect Shaw. Michaels is your intern Continental Champion. Now,
if you're anything of a wrestling historian, I love history
and wrestling. Mister Perfect still to this day is looked
at as being one of the greatest intern Continental Champions

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of all time, not just the Golden Era of all time.
So you have Sean Michaels who is coming into his
own For about a year and a half now, he's
been a singles wrestler. He broke up the Rockers in
January of nineteen ninety two. Sean Michaels has been on
fire since winning the inter Continental title, having amazing matchings

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with everybody. So you're thinking, mister purfect, who's one of
the greatest of all time is gonna fight currently maybe
the greatest of all time Sean Michaels. They built this
match as being a classic, the best versus the best
who will win? And I think that was the problem. Sometimes,
like when a movie comes out, everyone's telling you it's

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the greatest movie of all time, it's gonna be the
greatest match of all time. When you're told this over
and over, how this is gonna be the greatest thing
of all time and it's not even close to being
the greatest thing of all time, you're very disappointed. And
I think a lot of fans went into this match
being told it's gonna be a classic five stars. Everyone's

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gonna poop their pants while watching this. It's gonna be
so good. Not the case. I believe it's over hyped.
It does not live up to the hype. It's not
the greatest of all time. Honestly, I think it's one
of miss the perfect worst matches of all time. And
it's not a bad match, but if you look at

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the criteria and the resume, have missed it perfect. Well,
this match, I think it might be his worst. I'm
not counting his w cit W run with the you
know when he joined the nWo and turns on Rick
Flair and has his country gimmick. No, this is this
worst match ever. It's not a bad match, but it's

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his worst match. Yeah, ending count out too, Think about that.
The main event ends in counting for the world title,
the Interncontinental title ends in count out. Like, clearly, no
one's happy in the WWF. So we don't want to
have missed a perfect loop. We don't have Shawn Michaels lose.

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So how do we have somebody lose without actually getting pinned? Oh?
Account out? Okay, Well it's fine for one match, when
you do it for two of your championship matches. No,
one of the worst matches in WWF history happens at
this event. It's the Undertaker versus a Giant Gonzales and

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an arrest in peace match. The Giant Gonzales cannot move
around in the ninth seventy three Royal Rumble when Giant
Gonzalez made his debut and attacked the Undertaker. I was
all in, who is this giant? He's huge? Oh my god.
I don't give a shit about his airbrush muscles or
his airbrush crotch or the furrow over his body. I

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don't care. I was a little kid. I was all in, baby.
But then he wrestled at Rest Many and nine. No,
it's supposed to be a monster. They used chloroform to
knock out Undertaker at that event. Okay, then we head
to this another match. So we've been dealing with Jihant

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Gonzal is an Undertaker storyline since January. It is August,
January and August. We're going through seasons. We got Winter,
we got Spring, now we're in summer of Giant Gonzales
versus Undertaker. Okay, as a kid, didn't think anything of it.
As an adult, it is the worst match on the card,

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impossibly a top ten worst WWF matches of all time,
and that's not including great Caylie matches because he has
like his own category. To be honest, that dude never
had one good match. John Gonzales, I actually like his debut.
No another sad news if this Summer Slam, this is

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the end of mean Gene Oakland. He leaves me and
Jane leaves the WWF after nine years, he was never
offered a new deal and he joins w CW. It's
sad because Survivors Series ninety three will be the end

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of Bobby the braid Heenan. In the WWF one event,
you lose me and Gene the next event, you lose
Bobby the braid Heenan nine years. And think about that.
All the times Hulk Cogan ever did a backstage promo
for a pay per review or a Saturday Night's main event,

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or an interview in front of the audience, it was
Mean Gene doing that with Hogan. Mean Gene was the
face of the backstage interview. And now I love Sean
Mooney to death, but me and Gene Oakland, he was
the guy. They gave the big time too, the Warriors
and the Hult. Cogan is the macho man. Sean Mooney

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got them too. But when you think of Hulk Cogan interviews,
you think of Mean Jen being next to him in
Hulk Cogan saying, well let me tell you something there, brother,
let me take you something there, Mean Gene. It's done,
and as I mentioned before, business is not doing very well,
so they have to figure out what can we save on. Well,

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Mean Gene is making enough money like a wrestler, Well
he's that wrestling, so let's cut them so we can
make get some money back and give it to some
wrestlers and bring in some talent. I used the word talent,
but there was. It's a very weird, very weird time
in the WWF. There's a lot of wrestlers who you're thinking,
like Bashchim Booger. We paid Bashi Booger, but we didn't

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keep Mean Gene. Okay, I think that's why WSW started
kicking well not even kicking their ass yet, but I
think that's why WSW looked legit because they had all
of the talent that made the WWF a household name.
They had Bobby, they had Gene, they had Savage, they
had Hogan. When you have those brands that people recognize,

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it's like, shit, I'll watch you because you remind me
of my childhood. And then on WWF you're watching Lex
Luger ride around in a bus, like, who the fuck
is this guy? Did be to swear there, but seriously,
let me give you the match results though. For this event,
Raizormone defeated the Million Dollar Man. As I mentioned, this
is Million Dollar Man's last WWF match. The Steiner Brothers

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defeated the Heavenly Bodies. The tag team titles were on
the line. It was good, decent, Heavenly Bodies were good
in the ring, just really awkward body shapes. And I'm
the muscle man either, but awkward body shapes. Sel Michaels
defeated Mister Perfect by count out. Very disappointing match. Brett

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Hart defeated Doink by DQ, and then Jerry Lawler defeated
Brett Hart by DQ. King of the Ring feud, This
will continue on for a long time. Ludvig Borgo defeated
Marjanetti squash match. Very anti American. Louded eventually would take
out to Tanka and ruined his undefeated streak. You Aren't

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Taker defeated Giant Gonzalez and a rest in Peace match
that you don't need to watch. Gian Gonzales would not
be in the WWF for very long. He has released
quite quickly to Tanka. In the Smoking Guns defeated Bam
Bam Bigelow and the Headshrinkers. It's a fun match. It's
just a fill in the time because you know, eight

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matches was traditional back then, and that would have been
on seven and the main event of the evening, lax
Sluger defeated Yokozuna by count out. Major disappointment. Major disappointment.
The thing with this event is, like some of these events,

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they carry storylines into others. This is the end of
Jian Gonzalez and Taker, which then kicks off on a
Taker and Kamala to Gian Gonzales leads the WWF and
he was managed by Harvey Whoopleman. So Harvey Woopleman brings
in Kamala to take on Taker. So I guess that
continues on the Luger and Yoko thing. People are already

(31:12):
were tired of this, but as a fan watching on
television at the time, you couldn't really tell the fatigue
was there. But as you watch these events kind of
start discovering that these aren't very good. But it's this
pay per view, though, is you viewed as one of
ww's most like transitional and awkward pay per views of

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all time. Between the Holden era and the New Generation era.
We are kind of figuring out who we are. I
guess it'd be like when a teenager goes through puberty.
You know, you started to crack at your voice and
you start changing a little bit, good ways and bad ways.
This is the puberty pay per view for the w
WF where you're not sure what's next, but you know

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things are gonna change because you're losing mean Gene, You're
losing the million of the Man. No hacks on this event,
no Big Boss Man, no natural disasters, no bushwhackers. We're
missing out on a lot of Golden Hour wrestlers. It's
just shocking to think that we could have had Brett
Hart versus hul Coogan in the main event of a

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Summer Slam nineteen ninety three, and we do not get it.
That could have been amazing or it could have been terrible,
a little bit of both. Maybe a little bit of both.
But there you go, folks. That's the history of the
nineteen ninety three Summer Slam right here on the Wrestling

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History Channel. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope we
entertained you a little bit here and gave you some
fun facts you didn't know about because the fun facts
are the funnest part about this event. You don't have
to go back and watch it, all right, you don't,
but thanks for watching. I'm Steve. Have a wonderful day.
We'll see you next time. Bye bye, lex Express History

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