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WWE SummerSlam 1988 (1988)
Directed by Vince McMahon
Overview
WWE SummerSlam was the first annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event. It was produced by the World Wrestling Federation and took place on August 29, 1988 in Madison Square Garden, located in New York, New York. The PPV was created to help the company compete against rival promotion World Championship Wrestling. It was one of the first four annual pay-per-view events produced by the WWF. The main match of the preliminary bouts was the WWF Intercontinental Championship match between The Ultimate Warrior and the reigning champion The Honky Tonk Man. The Ultimate Warrior won the match in approximately thirty seconds to end the longest Intercontinental Championship reign. The main event was a match pitting The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage) against their long-time rivals, The Mega Bucks (Ted DiBiase and André the Giant). Hogan and Savage won the match after Miss Elizabeth distracted the special guest referee by removing her skirt to reveal a bikini bottom.
Rated NR | Length 150 minutes
Actors
Jesse Ventura | Hulk Hogan | André the Giant | Aurelian Jake Smith Jr. | Randy Savage | Bret Hart | Jimmy Hart | Davey Boy Smith | Adolph Bresciano | James Edward Duggan Jr | Ted DiBiase | Richard Erwin Rood | The Ultimate Warrior | Jim Neidhart | Baron von Raschke | Raymond Washington Traylor, Jr. | Bruce Prichard | Thomas Billington | Harry Fujiwara | Elizabeth Hulette | Don Muraco | Sylvester Ritter | Jacques Rougeau | Barry Allen Darsow | Terry Szopinski | Mike Jones | Bobby Heenan | Bill Eadie | Josip Nikolai Peruzović | Ray Fernandez | The Honky Tonk Man | James Ware | Raymond Rougeau | Allen Coage | Kenneth Wayne Johnson | Ken Patera | Sione Vailahi | Jim Harrell | Jean Gagné