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Features footage from the Summerslam events of 1988 and 1989. Featured matches include: 'Hercules vs Jake Roberts', 'The Ultimate Warrior vs The Honky Tonk Man', 'Jimmy Snuka vs Ted DiBiase' and 'Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake vs Zeus and Randy Savage'. Features nineteen matches in total.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Feel The Heat...., 14 Sep 2004

By	WCW Fan (Wales) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Summerslam is another WWE PPV that's been given the "Tagged Classics" treatment. Summerslam 88' and 89' are both included in this special 2 disc set.

Summerslam 88' was the first of its kind and was headlined by a tag-team match between The Mega-Powers (Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage) and The Mega Bucks (Ted Dibiase & Andre The Giant). Back in the day, this was considered a huge box-office attraction, because the TV shows were many made up of short squash matches and interviews.

Summerslam 88' opens up with an enjoyable tag-team match between The British Bulldogs and The Rogeaus'. Unfortunately, it takes a while for the card to get back on track after this (most of the following matches are either awful or just average).

The WWF Tag-Team Title Match between The Hart Foundation and Demolition is easily the best match of the entire card, and Boss Man VS Koko and Jake Roberts VS Hercules are pretty decent.

The main event (Hogan & Savage VS Dibiase & Andre) is fairly entertaining, but stands out due to the involvement of the Mega-Powers' "mascot", Elizabeth. In what was considered a little racy at the time (and perhaps that's why this got a "15" rating back in the day), Liz removes her skirt and exposes her underwear during the closing moments of the match (obviously tame by today's standards, but pretty ground-breaking back in the more "family friendly" days).

Summerslam 90' is a slight improvement on the first one. There are some terrible matches to endure (particularly Dusty Rhodes VS Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine VS Hercules), but there are some great ones to look forward to as well. Probably the best match of all is the exciting and well-paced 6-Man Tag between Tito Santana, The Rockers, Rick Martel and The Rogeau's. In second place is The Hart Foundation VS The Brain Busters, which sadly, is a non-title affair.

Also worthy of mention is the decent IC Title bout between Ultimate Warrior and Rick Rude, and a fairly good 6-Man bout pitting Demolition and Jim Duggan against The Twin Towers and Andre.

The main attraction is Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake VS Macho King and Zeus. Despite the involvement of a useless non-worker (Zeus, star of the film No Holds Barred), this is enjoyable fare, with some great interference from both Elizabeth and Queen Sherri.

Looking back on both events, it's clear that WWE and wrestling in general has advanced tremendously since the 80's and early 90's. However, this is still great nostalgia for long-time fans like myself who like to look back on the wrestlers and the matches that they watched growing up. There's enough here to make this another fairly interesting "Tagged Classics" release.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Old School Entertainment, 12 Jun 2009

By	Mr. A. Barker (England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The first thing to remember when looking back at these early WWF events is that they should be judged by the standards of that particular time. Of course, a lot of the content can't compare to the high athleticism of today but they are still very entertaining to watch especially if you were a fan at the time and are taking a trip down memory lane.

Summerslam 1988

The inaugural Summerslam was held in 1988 at Madison Square Garden and is remembered really for two matches. The first being the Ultimate Warrior's crushing victory over the Honky Tonk Man, putting to an end the longest Intercontinental title reign of all time. The Warrior was still on the rise in terms of popularirty but the Garden went ballistic when he burst onto the scene to despatch Honky in about 30 seconds! The second is of course the main event where WWF World Champion Macho Man Randy Savage teamed with then best friend Hulk Hogan to defeat Andre The Giant and The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase in a decent match in which Miss Elizabeth distracted the Mega Bucks duo by removing her skirt which raised a few eyebrows at the time.

The rest of the card wasn't much to write home about with the exception of Demolition's World Tag Team Title defence over the Hart Foundation which was probably the best of the night. The 20 minute time limit draw between The British Bulldogs versus The Fabulous Rougeaus wasn't bad, neither was the bout between Koko B.Ware and the Big Bossman but the others offered little or nothing. The Ken Patera/Bad News Brown match was particularly dreadful.

Summerslam 1989

The second annual Summerslam was an improvement on the original and once again featured a tag team main event, this time pitting Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake against Randy Savage and "The Human Wrecking Machine" Zeus (actor Tiny Lister). The match wasn't bad and went down well with the hot crowd in New Jersey, especially when Zeus felt 'pain' for the first time towards the end of the bout (Tony Schiavone sounded like he was about to explode on commentary!).

Elsewhere Ravishing Rick Rude pulled another good match out of the Ultimate Warrior in the Intercontinental Title rematch from Wrestlemania V; The Rockers & Tito Santana had a very good match with The Rougeaus and Rick Martel; and once again the Hart Foundation took the match of the night honours, this time against the Brain Busters (Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard). Greg Valentine versus Hercules was a stinker, although it did help continue the feud between Valentine and Ronnie Garvin; the Jimmy Snuka/Ted Dibiase bout should have been a lot better but wasn't helped by the cheap finish; the second six-man tag was never going to be anything special and neither was the Dusty Rhodes/Honky Tonk Man match. Mr. Perfect squashed The Red Rooster in the only other match on the card.

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3.0 out of 5 stars good mix of the old times and a new era, 26 Oct 2007

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summerslam 88 was the last hurrah for so many of the established stars of the early 80s in the wwf and in these two pay per views. summerslam 89 though shows how things had changed as some new legends and stars were now at the front. summerslam 88 gets off a fine start in a match between the british bulldogs and the rougeou brothers. can englands finest dispatch the all american boys?

in one his last ppvs ken patera takes on bad news brown but this isnt in any way memorable. another early 80s star then takes on one of the new generation as the ever poular junk yard dog squares of against rick rude. only worth watching really for 2 awesome entrance themes. and for the ovation for the JYD in his last ppv. in their first ppv the massive powers of pain square off against the bolsheviks but apart from an impressive finish and athleticism from the barbarian theres nothing of note here.

we then get a brother love show with hacksaw jim duggan, NEXT

the honky tonk man vs ? brutus beefcake cant make it so an open challenge is met by the ultimate opponent? can the longest ever intercontinental champion keep the gold ot this open challegne a big mistake. (i think we all know what happened here)

yet another ppv departee as don muraco has a wrestlemania rematch with dino bravo. again nothing noteworthy until the hart foundation, new crowd faves take on tag champs demolition. how will the harts fare without former manager jimmy hart?

koko b ware then takes on ppv newboy the very BIG boss man and the overweight cop pummels the bird man but this is actually a half decent match. just before the main event jake the snake battles hercules (certainly interesting to see how hercs physique changes from summerslam 88-89). the main event features wwf champ macho man and hulk hogan against andre the giant and the million dollar man who have virgil and bobby heenan in their corner. but what tricks will hogan and savage have it theirs/ does liz have a trick up her skirt for special guest ref jesse ventura?

summerslam 89 as per norm opens witha non title tag match, new champs the brain busters dont put the gold on the line as they only won in weeks earlier (how times have changed ) and the hart foundation step up to challenge. extremely excellent match between 2 superb teams.

new wwf star dusty rhodes then takes on the honky tonk man but will the elvis lookalike be left singing the blues? (a scene is then cut out from here where a sign dropped in an interview with rick rude, when the sign dropped mean gene yells "fcuk it" its edited out but can be found on youtube). rude is defending the gold against the man he beat for the title the ultimate warrior in one of the best matches of the night. Before that match there was an excellent 6man tag with tito Santana/rockers taking on rougeous/martel/

we then have the 2nd of two 6 man tags as king duggan/demolition take on the twin towers and andre the giant(the powers of pain are named on the back of the cover but its the twin towers. whether the powers were to appear i dont know but i doubt it) can size overcome guts? can the demos get revenge on andre for costing them the tag gold?

next up we have hercules vs greg valentine with rugged ronnie garvan watching on in the most boring match of the night, superfly jimmy snuka then returns to ppv against ted dibiase but despite a great end for snuka the match is rather lame.

The main event between brutus beefcake/hulk Hogan and zeus/macho man is rather lame though apart from tony schiavone and the crowd going nuts.

Worth watching I spose

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