Summerslam

In the spring of 1990, Hulk Hogan's career was in jeopardy. Weeks after a brutal encounter with the Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania, Hogan was attacked by the 500-pound Earthquake, who repeated squashed Hogan enough times to send him to the hospital. Inspired by cards and letters from his Hulkamanics, Hogan returned to announce he had signed to fact Earthquake at SummerSlam 1990. Although Hogan did not get the revenge he wanted - Jimmy Hart and Dino Bravo interfered on Earthquake's behalf to give Hogan the DQ win - it was clear that Hogan and Hulkamania were back, and better than ever! SummerSlam '90 capped the bitter feud between the Ultimate Warrior and `Ravishing' Rick Rude when Warrior defeated Rude in a steel cage to retain the WWE Championship. Two title changes also took place: The Hart Foundation defeated Demolition in a best-of-three falls match to become WWE Tag Team Champions, and Kerry Von Erich - `The Texas Tornado' - defeated Mr. Perfect to win the Intercontinental Championship.

Power and Glory defeated the Rockers Sensational Sherri defeated Sapphire when Sapphire never showed up The Warlord pinned Tito Santana Jake "the Snake" Roberts pinned Bad News Brown (Big Boss Man was guest ref) Nikolai Volkoff & "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan def. the Orient Express Randy Savage pinned Dusty Rhodes The Texas Tornado pinned Mr. Perfect to win the Intercontinental Title The Hart Foundation defeated Demolition in a best-of-three-falls match to win the Tag Team Championship Hulk Hogan defeated Earthquake by DQ WWE Champion The Ultimate Warrior defeating Rick Rude in a cage match

Overall Mark: B

Heats up fast this summer power and glory bring Shawn Michaels to his knees which leaves one rocker chasing glory in fun fast action filled starter. Intercontinental title next a perfect rivalry of styles two of the greatest ever Texas tornado mr perfect with the brain at ring side. No one sells for the opponent like perfect and here's a good example of how. Then the temperature drops with a no show match followed by a slow match. "Two hearts beating as one" said Bret Hart of the Hart foundation to face two of the three members of demolition two of the greatest tag teams of all time. Damon the snake up next always a fan favorite. Macho dusty million dollar man compete for sapphire affection. Then an earthquake as damaged hulk hogan can he come back or is this natural disaster to big world champion ultimate warrior in a cage with rick rude the main event . Great names brilliant characters great storyline following on from wrestle mania 6 . I was 11 years old first time round and at that age watching these superstars was amazing 30 years on still for me still one of wrestling golden eras.That it for SS90 In the words of roddy piper wham bam summer slam

First ever event i watched thought it was real looking back its still a fantastic event the first match was excellent a real underdog fight with a realistic ending Perfect losing was a waste of one of the best characters ever he should of kept the title for a long time Warlord could have fought barbarian in a tag match with heenan and slick. The harts match could be the greatest tag match I've ever seen. i cannot understand why l.o.d where not used and even though hogan earthquake was good everyone wanted a hogan warrior rematch. Why bother wasting peoples time with bad news vs jake it was terrible and what has poor tito done to vince to be jobbed every two minutes

Roddy Piper joined Vince McMahon to comment this standout SummerSlam event of the good old days of WWF action. Power $ Glory took it to the original Rockers in a sneak attack before the bell. Watch for the final, wild moments of the Hulk Hogan-Earthquake revenge bout. Big Bossman was in Hulster's corner. He rushes the ring with a chair as Hogan is held up in a vicious choke hold-the, one, two shots to the 5-foot wide back of Earthquake (John Tenta)! Piper screams in disbelief to Mr. McMahon: "Did you see the welts on his back from that chair!" A steel cage main event title match follows with the late Rick Rude challenging his toughest opponent then WWF champion The Ultimate Warrior.

This one has always been a sentimental favorite of mine. I won a VHS copy of it in a newspaper competition about 8 years ago, and I still watch it today, it's great fun.

It's like a peek into another world-Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior are on top of the WWF, and probably two of their more interesting , if not brilliant, outings are here. Vince McMahon and Roddy Piper are hamming it up on commentary, and virtually everything that was great about wrestling between 1988-92 is here-a great Hart Foundation bout, prime Curt Hennig stuff, The Rockers, the underrated Brother Love sketches and plenty more. Not totally great, but really fun stuff all round.