WWF SummerSlam 1993 - OSW Review 81

That Radio WWF skybox with the monitor being balanced on the edge is dodgy AF.

This whole ending could have worked if Lex realized the count out would screw him. Imagine him sprinting out of the ring trying to get Yoko back into the ring and just when he’s about to manage it Hebner counts 10. The balloons still fall the baby faces still come out but Lex looks sad and dejected instead of happy. Then they could’ve built to the next PPV. It’s a damn shame.

There will be no Aaron Neville slander. The man is a hulking, falsetto angel.

Lex beats yoko, Lex faces borga team at survivor series and wins but is attacked by Yoko afterwards. Yoko beats Lex at rumble with a screwy finish involving borga (replace borga with crush if he leaves). Bret wins rumble and beats Yoko at mania and lex faces borga (crush) and wins. Yoko and borga (Crush) vs bret and Lex Owen wins KOR. Bret beats Owen at summerslam with help from lex but Bret hates it and tension grows. Lex and Bret team again at survivor series against team Cornett and lose because Lex nails Bret with forearm by accident. Lex wins rumble and Bret defends against camp Cornett member. Lex be bret at mania let crowd reaction dictate future booking but put Owen or Michaels in the title picture following mania. Boom! ratings.

What the fuck was the point of Mr Fuji by this stage? Useless.

Luger deserved better tbh, should’ve been him winning the belt at Wrestlemania X

HERES HOW I WOULD LEX AS WWE CHAMPION LEX WINS BELT AT SUMMERSLAM HAVE THE SUMMERSLAM MOMENT FACE OFF WITH LUDVIG BORGA EHE CHALLENGES LEX FOR A TITLE MATCH AT A UPCOMING RAW IN SEPTEMBER LUDVIG WINS VIA COUNTOUT CAUSE LEX HAS INJURED RIBS DURING THE MATCH LUDVIG GETS MAD AND INJURES LEX YOKO GETS HIS REMATCH ON A RAW IN OCTOBER IN A NODQ MATCH THE INTERVIEWER SAID YOU CANT COMPETE TONIGHT LEX SAYS UNLIKE YOKO I'M A FIGHTING CHAMPION AND I FIGHT FOR THE USA THE MATCH HAPPENS LUGER IS ABOUT TO WIN UNTIL BORGA COMES OUT INJURES LEX AGAIN AND YOKO HITS THE BANZAI DROP LEX'S RIBS AND YOKO WINS THE BELT

I do believe that big burly guy in the white t-shirt behind Owen and Bruce, staring directly at the camera, is fomer heavyweight boxing champion Michael Moorer, who had trained at Kronk Gym in Detroit and had a number of fights at The Palace.

It‘s a shame that OSW didn’t told about Borgas political career where he was in the finnish parliament for the right-winged True Finns Party, where he got attention by throwing homophobic slurs to then president Tarja Halonen. He also had a SS-Tattoo on his ankle which were never shown in TV due to Wwe telling him to cover it.

The hell was that female wrestling game? XD

Big w

Shawn had the greatest costumes (besides Macho) ever.

Borga ! My bottom boy

Besides Survivor Series 97, Lex v Yoko was the biggest botch the company has ever shit out.

Was America Rags dude, Christopher Daniels? Looks like him.

Woooooo

Still underrated time, but Bret was the man after hogan, that's the fact and just hogan become the biggest star in wcw. Hogan is the real freaking deal. Biggest wrestling star of all time

Not gonna lie lex looked good with the heavy weight title. the red white and blue trunks made the gold belt pop nice

I loved how ole backed out

4 years later and JR is still working

I was 12 when this first aired, and it's so great to rewatch as an adult. At the time I remember I absolutely hated Bobby Heenan, I absolutely could not stand him... and it's only as an adult that I can really appreciate just how amazing he was.
I think I was literally in my early twenties before it clicked with me that I hated him because I was supposed to hate him...and the fact I hated him so much shows just how good at his job he was.

Am I losing my marbles or is this an older edit than's been up since I first watched the New Gen arc? I'd swear the segment about Fowler and Mooney is longer than I remember.

I’ve seen this so many times, but this time it really stood out to me how ridiculous and stupid they made Lex look celebrating a DQ win. It’s the same outcome as if Zuna hit him with a chair.

Fun fact: Hall debuted in WCW in 96 during a Mike Enos match.

*Children of Ireland reciting the alphabet*

“L, M, N, O, P, Q, OOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRR, S, T, U…”

I always wanted them to have a 7ft black guy in the doink makeup and for him to be called dunk

After booking Luger to be POSSIBLY the smartest Babyface EVER - cutting off almost every Heel cheating/interference spot with NO help, but not smart enough to break the count and get the Champion back in the ring? THEN celebrating like he got the title?

That's another example of Vince "Vince-ing" all over it. Bollocks! Bollocks! Bollocks! Bollocks! Bollocks! Bollocks! Bollocks! Bollocks!

There is an irony in the thumbnail for this video. First of all, it's a really cool spoof of the street fighter alpha 2 cover, and I'd give y left arm for a poster of this.

The irony, for those who may not have known this, is the Street Fighter Alpha 2 cover where Akuma is staring down Ryu was actually inspired by the big Brett Hart vs Diesel title match where they had the same exact side view photo of Diesel staring down at a Brett Hart looking up at him. This was confirmed by Capcom.

The back 2 the future sound was a nice touch

Lex became a patriotic vampire from Pennsylvania, officially making it impossible to continue the Narcissist gimmick due to a lack of a mirror reflection. Canon.

What?