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The 1993 SummerSlam was the sixth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on August 30, 1993, at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan and featured ten televised matches.
Yokozuna attacked Hart before the bell, and Hart attempted a couple of comebacks in vain. [36] Eventually, Yokozuna made a mistake and allowed Hart to knock him to the mat. [37] Cornette tried to distract Piper, but Piper punched him and knocked him off the ring apron. [42] Yokozuna performed a leg drop on Hart but then missed an Avalanche ...
The 1993 Royal Rumble was the sixth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 24, 1993, at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California.
James E. Cornette debuted in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1993 as the villainous Yokozuna's American spokesperson. [1] Cornette began a faction at WrestleMania XI on April 2, 1995, when Yokozuna formed a tag team with Owen Hart and won the WWF Tag singles Championship by defeating The Smokin' Gunns (Billy Gunn and Bart Gunn).
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", [ 3 ] it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania , Royal Rumble , and Survivor Series , [ 4 ] and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs ...
[1] [2] [13] [14] The same night, Hart and Yokozuna went on to lose the titles to The Smoking Gunns. [2] [9] After the match, their tag team disbanded as Yokozuna focused on singles career while Hart formed a tag team with The British Bulldog in 1996. [15] [16] Both Owen and Bulldog feuded with Yokozuna in early 1996.
Hart tried to use his technical wrestling abilities against Yokozuna, while Yokozuna relied on his size advantage in the match. Hart gained control at the beginning, but Yokozuna came back with a clothesline, leg drop, and nerve hold. Hart regained the advantage when Yokozuna missed a running splash. Yokozuna applied another nerve hold but ...
Survivor Series is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV), produced every November by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1987. In what has become the second longest running pay-per-view event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam, which were dubbed the "Big Four", [5 ...