SummerSlam (1996)

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SummerSlam (1996)
Details
Promotion	World Wrestling Federation
Date	August 18, 1996
Venue	Gund Arena
City	Cleveland, Ohio
Attendance	17,000
Pay-per-view chronology
In Your House 9	SummerSlam (1996)	In Your House 10: Mind Games
SummerSlam chronology
SummerSlam (1995)	SummerSlam (1996)	SummerSlam (1997)

SummerSlam (1996) was the ninth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on August 18, 1996 at the Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The tagline for the event was "Opposites Attack!"

Contents 1 Results 2 Other on-screen talent 3 Miscellaneous 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Free for All match: Steve Austin defeated Yokozuna (1:52)
  • Austin pinned Yokozuna with a roll-up when the ring rope broke while Yokozuna was going for a Banzai drop.
• Owen Hart defeated Savio Vega (13:23)
  • Hart won by TKO with the Sharpshooter after knocking Vega out with his cast.
  • Hart was warned by the referee that he would be disqualified if he used his cast as a weapon; Hart used the cast anyway during the end of the match but wasn't caught.
  • After the match Justin Bradshaw came out and attacked Vega.
• The Smokin' Gunns (Billy and Bart) (w/Sunny) defeated The Bodydonnas (Skip and Zip), The New Rockers (Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy) and The Godwinns (Henry and Phineas) (w/Hillbilly Jim) in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship (12:18)
  • Billy pinned Zip after interference from Jannetty (4:00)
  • Henry pinned Jannetty after a Slop Drop (7:18)
  • Billy pinned Phineas after Bart delivered a double axhandle off the top rope (12:18)
• Sycho Sid defeated The British Bulldog (6:24)
  • Sid pinned Bulldog after a Powerbomb when Bulldog became distracted by Clarence Mason and Jim Cornette arguing on the outside of the ring.
• Goldust (w/Marlena) defeated Marc Mero (w/Sable) (11:01)
  • Goldust pinned Mero after the Curtain Call.
• Jerry Lawler defeated Jake Roberts (4:07)
  • Lawler pinned Roberts with a roll-up after hitting him in the throat with a bottle of Jim Beam.
  • Before this match started, Mark Henry came down to the ring and joined commentary.
  • Lawler was making several jokes at Roberts expense and taunted Roberts by bringing several bottles of alcohol with him to the ring (Roberts was a recovering alcoholic). Lawler wore a Baltimore Ravens jersey to antagonize the crowd since the Cleveland Browns had been moved to Baltimore earlier that year. After Lawler won, he proceeded to pour the alcohol down Roberts throat. Henry came down to the ring to save Roberts.
• Mankind defeated The Undertaker in a Boiler Room Brawl (26:40)
  • Mankind won after Paul Bearer hit Undertaker in the head with the urn, and gave it to Mankind.
• Shawn Michaels (w/Jose Lothario) defeated Vader (w/Jim Cornette) to retain the WWF Championship (28:59)
  • Michaels pinned Vader after a Moonsault.
  • Vader had originally won the match twice, first by count-out (after press-slamming Michaels onto the guard rail) and then by disqualification (when Michaels struck Vader repeatedly with Cornette's tennis racket), but because WWF championships can only change hands by pinfall or submission, Cornette demanded that the match restart both times. WWF President Gorilla Monsoon allowed this when Michaels agreed.

[edit] Other on-screen talent

Commentators Vince McMahon Mr. Perfect Jim Ross Interviewers Dok Hendrix Todd Pettengill Referees Mike Chioda Jack Doan Earl Hebner Tim White Harvey Wippleman

Spanish Commentators Carlos Cabrera Hugo Savinovich Others Gerald Brisco Tony Chimel Howard Finkel - ring announcer Rene Goulet Dave Hebner Gorilla Monsoon Pat Patterson

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Pettengill hosted the "Bikini Beach Blast-Off" party during the Free For All, where a pool was set up for everyone. Guests included Sunny, Sable, Marc Mero, The Smokin' Gunns, Marlena, Goldust, T.L. Hopper, Who, Jerry Lawler, The Bushwhackers, Aldo Montoya, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and Shawn Michaels.
• Pettengill also interviewed Faarooq Asad and Sunny. Faarooq was scheduled to face Ahmed Johnson in a match for the Intercontential Championship at the event, but the match did not take place due to Johnson's injuries.

[edit] References

• onlineworldofwrestling.com - SummerSlam '96 results
• twnpnews.com - SummerSlam
• hoffco-inc.com - SummerSlam '96 review

[edit] External links

• Official 1996 SummerSlam site