BobbyUK Here are the matches...Rockers v Power and Glory: This turned into a handicap match as repackaged jobbers to the stars Hercules and Paul Roma hit Shawn Michaels in his already injured leg on ambush with the chain. Marty Jannetty makes a valiant effort before succumbing to the innovative Power Plex and pin. Michaels leaves the arena on a stretcher, selling his leg injury like a wild man.4/10 Texas Tornado v Mr Perfect for the Intercontinental title: Mr Perfect takes a few bumps before losing to the claw and Tornado Punch for an upset pin-fall. It was a nice WWF moment but it's sad to see Perfect lose without putting in the work-rate for a man of his potential.5/10 Sapphire v 'Sensational' Sherri: Sapphire loses the match by forfeit because she doesn't make it to the ring. The WWF do a reasonable job at making it look legitimate.0/10 Tito Santana v Warlord: Tito jobbed to one Powers of Pain at Wrestlemania, he may as well job to the other at Summerslam and he doesn't do a bad job of it. Tito tries for a monkey-flip but Warlord holds on to turnbuckles finishing Tito off with the power-slam and pin.4/10 Hart Foundation v Demolition for the tag team titles in a 2-3 falls match: Demolition incorporated a new member called Crush to share the work load because Ax wasn't well and started a confusion angle (the only people confused where the officials as far as I was concerned) where Harts didn't know which two of the three they were getting. Interesting that Crush refer to Legion of Doom as 'second rate impostors' as Legion of Doom were the inspiration behind Demoliton. Crush and Smash start the match and get the first pin on Bret making it 1-0 to Demolition. The Foundation would soon come back after a terrible decision by Crush to take out the ref rather than Bret Hart who was pinning Smash - deliberate or rookie mistake? Shortly after the disqualification decision on Demolition (making it 1-1), Ax comes to the ring and hides under the apron and from there Smash switches sides so a fresh Ax comes into play. Legion of Doom come to the ring shortly after to serve justice to Demolition. Crush gets schoolboy pinned after taking a ringside slingshot from Niedhart making it 2-1 to The Hart Foundation to become new tag team champions. What I once considered a classic isn't as amazing in retrospect because The Foundation weren't fighting the original members.7/10 Jake 'The Snake' Roberts v Bad News Brown - Big Boss Man as special referee: Absolutely pitiful match as Bad News Brown gets disqualified for hitting Jake a second time in the stomach with a chair. This effort would be Bad News Brown's last match on PPV.2/10 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and Nikolai Volkoff v Orient Express: It is very weird to see Nikolai Volkoff as a face but even more weird seeing him sing 'America the Beautiful' badly with Duggan before the match. The Orient Express get murdered by Duggan and Volkoff which ends in Duggan's 3 point stance clothesline and rare clean pin.3/10 Dusty Rhodes v 'Machoking' Randy Savage: The only point to the match was to show where Sapphire ended up - bought out by Ted Dibiase. The empty smile on Sapphire's face seemed very effective though that may be because Sapphire in real life was besotted with Dusty and knew the plot would draw her away from him. Dibiase's acts got poor Dusty distracted, ambushed and pinned after use of Sherri's loaded purse within a very short space of time. Rhodes screaming for Sapphire after the match as she went off in Dibiase's limousine was quite an image. If Rhodes had his way, Sapphire would have been a prostitute but WWF thought it unsuitable. If the WWF did go with Dusty's idea it would have made this plot angle so much more darker.2/10 Hulk Hogan v Earthquake: I know there was build-up to this match but it certainly didn't deserve main event status. Were the WWF that worried if Hogan didn't main event their PPVs he would be forgotten about or was it Hogan's ego taking control at this point? The Hulkamania thing became stale from here as we enter another 'clash of the titans' type match featuring the typical Hogan can't slam big guy the first time but does the second time type thing. The difference between this match and other Hogan matches is that Earthquake loses by count-out after getting slammed on a table which is an awful booking decision. Nobody really gained anything from this result.4/10Ultimate Warrior v 'Ravashing' Rick Rude for the World title in a steel cage: You can tell Rude was on the way out here because he referred to the crowd as 'Pennsylvanian Pissants' which caused a genuine stir. This match had shades of their previous encounter at the last Summerslam and was quite brutal as both were throwing each other into the cage from the start. I wasn't convinced that Rude would win the match after he went to the top of the cage following the 'Rude Awakening' neck breaker. He didn't look like he wanted to win, even missing an opportunity of going through the door while Warrior was tangling with Heenan. This would be Rude's last PPV match with the WWF. 6/10 Overall, I think the most disheartening realisation of Summerslam 1990 was that a lot of wrestlers at this point were on the way down, way out or underutilised and we would see the slow WWF career deaths of Dusty Rhodes and Demolition from this point on. Also I didn't realise how awful Roddy Piper was on commentary at this point. I believe he was a 'Jesse Ventura replacement experiment' but it ended with bad results - back to the drawing board, Piper.

jexlin01 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.

wwfhistoryguy *SPOILERS*In some ways, this one was terrible. Santana vs. Warlord, Bad News Brown vs. Jake, and Savage vs. Rhodes were just painful to watch. Savage and Rhodes actually had a great match months later on Saturday Night's Main Event (Dustin Rhodes' first tv appearance). The late Sapphire vs. Scary Sherri, potentially the worst match in SummerSlam history, didn't even happen.Marty Jannetty vs. Hercules and Paul Roma wasn't actually that bad. Marty actually came very close to winning. I'm sure they wanted to include Michaels in the match, but they had to stage the knee injury that occurred days before the event. Notice how Marty and Shawn walk to the ring rather than run.Mr. Perfect really started jobbing after WM VI. This was Kerry Von Erich's single WWF highlight. He was a fantastic person (I met him once in Honolulu), but he used even fewer wrestling moves than the Ultimate Warrior. After this, he would lose several times to Perfect, and besides winning a non-televised feud with DiBiase, his WWF career went nowhere.Hacksaw Jim Duggan sure made quite a career out of SummerSlam tag team matches. Before this, the Orient Express had a great string of countout wins over the Rockers, and, yes, even Demolition. This was the beginning of their downfall.The Hart Foundation-"Demolition" match was superior to their match from '88, and almost as good as Bret and Jim's match against the Brain Busters the year before. I don't know about any of you, but Ax and Smash look nothing alike. We really had to suspend our disbelief here. The Hart Foundation cemented their place here as the best tag team ever. We had lots of talented teams, but LOD, the Bulldogs, and the Steiners had disappointing careers. The Harts always did great, winning almost all their feuds: the Bulldogs, Killer Bees, Strike Force, Rougeaus, Rhythm & Blues (twice), Hercules and Paul Roma, and the Powers of Pain. Plus quick wins over the Orient Express and Bolsheviks. Strangely, the only team they never beat was the Rockers.Both of the main event matches were surprisingly good. I like how the referee allowed all the cheating in the Hogan-Earthquake match. And Rick Rude was fine in his last big WWF match. Strangely, he lost all his feuds: Jake the Snake, the Ultimate Warrior, and Roddy Piper.So watch the show, but know where to fast-forward. Especially the Jake-Bad News match. But the Harts-Demolition match and the main events are great.

Spawn Devil 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 matchOverall Mark: B