Summerslam 1996 Submitted By James Walsh on 04/14/06
Summerslam 1996 1996-08-18, Gund Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1. Owen Hart def. Savio Vega Savio Vega submitted to a sharpshooter after being hit with Owen's plaster 2. Tagteam title match, four team elimination match: Smoking Gunns (ch) def. The Godwinns (eliminated as number three), The New Rockers (eliminated as number two) and The Body Donnas (eliminated first) 3. Sycho Sid def. British Bulldog British Bulldog was pinned after a chokeslam followed by a powerbomb 4. Goldust def. "Wild Man" Marc Mero Goldust won after Marlena had distracted the referee when Mero had Goldust down for a pin. After the match, Goldust was making advances towards Mero's "manager" Sable, and was then attacked by Mero 5. Jerry "The King" Lawler def. Jake "The Snake" Roberts Lawler pinned Roberts after hitting him over the head with a liquor bottle. After the match he tried to get Roberts, who recently had recovered from his alcoholism, to drink from the bottle, but the guest commentator Mike Henry intervened and chased Lawler away 6. Boiler room brawl, in the basement: Mankind def. The Undertaker The object of the match was to get back up to the ring and get the urn from Paul Bearer, who was stationed in the ring. When they got there, Paul Bearer, The Undertaker's manager, first turned his back on The Undertaker, and then hit him with the urn, helping Mankind to win. He then followed Mankind out of the arena 7. WWF championship match: Shawn Michaels (ch) def. Vader Vader first won over Shawn by a count-out, but Vader's manager Jim Cornette talked Shawn into continuing the match. Vader then again won, this time by a disqualification when Shawn grabbed Cornette's tennis racket and hit Vader, but again Cornette didn't want it to end that way, and the match was restarted. After Vader missing a moonsault, Shawn got Vader with one, and won by a pinfall
