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The 1989 SummerSlam was the second annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on August 28, 1989, in the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Ten matches were contested at the event, including one dark match held before the live broadcast.
WWE controversies (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Professional wrestling controversies" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
In July 2021, WWE resumed live touring with fans, and in an effort to sell out that year's SummerSlam, which was held at the Allegiant Stadium in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada, [24] WWE promoted SummerSlam as the "biggest event of 2021". [25] The 2021 event in turn became the highest-grossing SummerSlam event of all time. [26]
The American professional wrestling promotion WWE has been broadcasting pay-per-view (PPV) events since the 1980s, when its classic "Big Four" events (Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series) were first established—the company's very first PPV was WrestleMania in 1985.
The company also ceased operations of three short-lived titles: the WWF North American Heavyweight Championship (1979–1981), [14] WWF Canadian Championship (1985–1986), [15] and WWF Women's Tag Team Championship (1983–1989). [16] Despite their names, the geographic-name-based titles were not restricted to wrestlers from that location.
Promotion Name Abbreviation Notes All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling: AJW Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre: EMLL Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling: FMW Founded in July. New Japan Pro-Wrestling: NJPW Universal Wrestling Association: UWA World Championship Wrestling: WCW World Wrestling Council: WWC World Wrestling Federation: WWF
July 18, 1989: Saturday Night's Main Event XXII: Worcester, MA: 1 76 This was a two-out-of-three falls match which the Brain Busters won 2–1. Aired on tape delay on July 29, 1989. [15] 43 Demolition (Ax and Smash) October 2, 1989: Superstars: Wheeling, WV: 2 72 Aired on tape delay on November 4, 1989. [16] 44 The Colossal Connection (André ...
Garvin then became a ring announcer, and began aggravating Valentine. At SummerSlam 1989, for his match with Hercules, Garvin announced Valentine as being Hercules' "so-called opponent" and at 249 lbs looking to Garvin like he was "overweight by thirty pounds" as he approached the ring. Other insults by Garvin during the introduction included ...