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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.
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 ...
SummerSlam is an annual pay-per-view (PPV) produced every August by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer", [1] it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series, eventually dubbed the "Big Four". [2]
The same building hosted SummerSlam 2007, which featured a main event of John Cena vs. Randy Orton for the WWE title. Now, WWE and New Jersey will make history once again with the first ever two ...
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]
Vince McMahon, the former owner of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, called Mr McMahon, that chronicles his downfall and the sexual abuse ...
The ring boy scandal was a sex scandal in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; now known as WWE) centered around allegations that in the late 1980s and early 1990s ring announcer Mel Phillips (1941–2012) had recruited teenage boys for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
WWE officially announced the move to TV-PG on July 22, 2008. [18] The 2008 SummerSlam pay-per-view (PPV) was the first WWE PPV to carry the TV-PG rating. [19] To appeal to younger fans, WWE released the WWE Kids magazine in 2008, [20] and debuted the kid-friendly Saturday Morning Slam television program in 2012. [21]