Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

callanvass Live from Auburn Hills, MIAttendance 23,954Your commentators are Vince McMahon & Bobby HeenanRazor Ramon Vs Ted DibiaseThe crowd is red hot for Razor. This is also notable for being Dibiase's last match ever due to back issues. Razor wins with the Razor's Edge. Not bad overall and an OK way to get the crowd going. Dibiase was a solid choice to jumpstart Razor's face push.** out of 5We get a cringe worthy segment of Scott Steiner's Mother and Sister trying to act like Rick and Scott are really brothers. The Mother looks so embarrassed. Tag Team TitlesThe Steiner Brothers (C) Vs The Heavenly BodiesThe Steiner Brothers win. Pretty fun match here. Really fast-paced with a lot of exciting action. And there were a couple of moments where you might think The Heavenly Bodies had it.***1/4 out of 5Intercontinental TitleShawn Michaels (C) Vs Mr. PerfectMichaels wins by count-out after Diesel interferes. Definitely a solid match. That's a given with these two...but they were both really off as well. The timing wasn't right and there were some botched spots. It also felt rushed. Criticism aside, it's still worth a look for sure. **3/4 out of 5The 1-2-3 Kid Vs I.R.SIRS wins with the flying clothesline. Watchable, simply due to the 1-2-3 Kid. Rotunda is mediocre and always has been. Much better than I could do...but I've never been a fan of his and the IRS gimmick was the worst. What purpose did an IRS win serve here? This show is horribly booked.**1/2 out of 5Bret Hart Vs DoinkJerry Lawler feigns a knee injury and names Doink as a replacement. He babbled incessantly and I barely paid attention. Never been a fan of Lawler's. Not because he's a great heel...because he's super annoying and overrated. Bret has the match won...but Lawler uses his crutch to cause the DQ. Pretty boring stuff. *1/2 out of 5Bret Hart Vs Jerry "The King" LawlerJack Tunney demands Lawler face Bret. If Lawler doesn't come back, he'll be banned from the WWF for life. Normally, I wouldn't complain about two Bret matches...but Lawler and Doink are not ideal opponents. Bret wins the match with The Sharpshooter, but Bret refuses to let go of the hold. The decision is reversed and Jerry Lawler is the "undisputed" King of the Ring. Pretty poor booking here.** out of 5Ludvig Borga Vs Marty JannettyBorga wins with the Torture Rack. If this didn't telegraph his feud with Luger, I'm not sure what else would. Borga wouldn't amount to much anyway.*1/2 out of 5Rest in Peace Match (No DQ, No Countout)The Undertaker Vs Giant GonzalezThe Undertaker wins with a flying clothesline from the top. TERRIBLE! Even worse than their Wrestlemania 9 match, which is truly saying something. Vince McMahon is a masochist and a sick puppy. Harvey Wippleman berates Gonzalez after the match and turns Gonzalez face. Gonzalez was supposed to feud with Adam Bomb, but he left the WWF. DUDTatanka & The Smoking Gunns Vs Bam Bam Bigelow & The HeadshrinkersTatanka and the Smoking Gunns win. One of the best matches on the show so far. Rather fun. Not great...but fun.**1/2 out of 5Randy Savage comes out with Aaron Neville to get the crowd to pop. He's the guest ring announcer. WWF ChampionshipYokozuna (C) Vs Lex LugerLuger wins by count-out after knocking Yokozuna to the floor with that loaded forearm. The wrestlers come into celebrate to sell it as a "Moral" victory. I've actually come to appreciate Luger, but he was so out-of-place as the next coming of Hogan. They had a chance early on to make Luger a legitimately popular top babyface, but they blew that here. All that ridiculous hype down the drain. What was Vince thinking? He put all his cards here and he decided this? I guess Vince thought Luger's star power could last long enough to give Luger the all important WWF Title win at Wrestlemania 10. But fans were already growing weary of Luger's forced push. They should have given Luger the title here for a few month trial at least. Average match overall.** out of 5One of my least favorite Summerslams. Even Michaels and Perfect is underwhelming for their standards. I'd give it a pass, if I were you.4/10

zkonedog In terms of overall drama and pacing, SummerSlam 1993 is actually a pretty successful event. It has it's share of stinkers, but also a good deal of entertainment.The Good: -Razor Ramon as an established superstar (taking on Ted DiBiase). - Intercontinental Title Match: Shawn Michaels (budding star) vs. Mr. Perfect (on the way out) - The 1-2-3 Kid gimmick is actually kind of cool...taking a "jobber" and flipping the script. -Bret Hart vs. Doink the Clown. Once you get past all the Jerry Lawler crutches nonsense, the match is actually pretty good.The Bad: -WWF couldn't buy a good tag team at this point. Smokin' Guns? Heavenly Bodies? Headshrinkers? Yikes. -With the knowledge that the Hulk Hogan era was finally over, Vince McMahon tries to replace him with...a clone of himself (in Lex Luger). Unforgivable. Can't just have another cut guy to wave the flag. -Fat guys (like Yokozuna) just don't make good headliners. They just can't move well enough to carry a match.The Ugly: -Undertaker (always a good performance) vs. Giant Gonzalez (maybe the worst "wrestler" I've ever seen. The guy could hardly walk!)So, overall I was basically entertained by SummerSlam 1993. Besides some clunkiness and awkwardness, there are some really fun moments. It's too bad that Vince McMahon was still so enamored by the roided-up guys and Hogan clones that he couldn't adapt as fast as happened later. However, with WCW still a little ways off from mounting a challenge, the WWF could pretty much put any level of talent on the air and get eyeballs.

bh_tafe3 This was the first PPV in a new era for the WWE as Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, Ric Flair and Sherri Martel had all left. A new crop of talent needed to be pushed. And this all started with Lex Luger, a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion being given a title shot against Yokozuna. Lex travelled all over the US in a bus called the Lex Express to inspire Americans into rallying behind him in his bid to beat the Japanese monster (who was actually Samoan) and get the WWE Championship back into American hands. As such there was much anticipation for this match.But every good PPV needs an undercard and this had some good stuff.The night started off with Razor Ramon defeating Ted DiBiase in a good match. The story going into this was that DiBiase had picked on Ramon and even offered him a job as a slave after his shock loss to the 1-2-3 Kid on RAW in July. Ramon, angry, had then teamed with the 1-2-3 Kid against the Money Inc tag team of Ted DiBiase and Irwin R Shyster. To settle their differences they were both given one on one matches DiBiase vs Ramon and Shyster vs The Kid. Razor was able to settle his side of the deal after hitting a Razor's Edge.Next up came the Steiner Brothers putting the WWE Tag Team Titles on the line against The Heavenly Bodies. Depsite the interference of "The Bodies" Manager Jim Cornette, who hit Scott Steiner in the throat with a tennis racket, they were able to pull out the win in a decent match.Shawn Michaels and Mr Perfect had been feuding since Wrestlemania IX when Shawn Michaels confronted Perfect after his loss to Lex Luger. Perfect had then cost Michaels the Intercontinental Championship when he distracted him in a title match against Marty Janetty. Michaels had won the title back and was putting it on the line against Mr Perfect, but Michaels now had a powerful ally in his corner in his 7 foot bodyguard Diesel. Micheals and Perfect had an excellent match here, but it was Diesel who proved the difference maker, pulling Perfect out of the ring and throwing him into the steel steps for Shawn to win by count out.Irwin R Shyster avenged the loss of his tag team partner earlier in the night, easily accounting for the 1-2-3 Kid.Next came one of the big matches of the night as Bret Hart prepared to battle Jerry Lawler for the title of undisputed King of the WWE. But Lawler came out with crutches, saying he'd been injured in a car accident earlier that day and that he'd arranged another opponent for Hart: Doink the Clown. Hart and Doink had a passable match which Hart won with a sharpshooter. He was then jumped from behind by Lawler. This bought WWE President Jack Tunney to the ring who told Lawler that he would receive a lifetime ban if he didn't wrestle Hart. Hart then destroyed Lawler, winning with the sharpshooter, but Hart refused to let go of the hold and the referee reversed his decision. So after all that Lawler was named the undisputed King of the WWE. This match was followed by Ludvig Borda destroying Marty Janetty in a short match.The Undertaker finished his long rivalry with Harvey Wippleman, which had started in 1992 when the Undertaker had defeated Wippleman's client Kamala at Summerslam and continued when Wippleman's latest monster The Giant Gonzales had destroyed Taker at the Rumble and then again at Wrestlemania, with a decisive victory over Gonzales here. Gonzales then turned on Wippleman, chokeslamming him after a poor match.Next it was time for six man tag action as the Smoking Gunns (Bart and BIlly) and Tatanka defeated The Headshrinkers (Samu and Fatu) and Bam Bam Bigelow with Tatanka pinning Samu.This brings us to the main event with Yokozuna, flanked by Jim Cornette and Mr Fuji, putting the WWE Title on the line against Lex Luger and it was all on board the Lex Express. Lex came out attacking, but Yokozuna took control. Lex came back though as he was able to avoid a banzai drop and then body slam Yokozuna before knocking him out of the ring. Luger then attacked Cornette and Fuji as Yokozuna was counted out. Luger had won a fine match!!!!! Balloons fell from the ceiling. The heroes all came out to congratulate him on his win. Yokozuna may have retained the title, but Luger had proved he could be beaten. The only question was, who could beat him in the ring and get that title off him?

Spawn Devil On July 4, 1993, aboard the USS Intrepid, Yokozuna was making a mockery out of America by issuing a challenge to any American strong enough to bodyslam the 500-pound behemoth. The American efforts were futile, until Lex Luger made a dramatic entrance from a helicopter to the Intrepid, and proceeded to bodyslam Yokozuna! The events aboard the Intrepid earned Luger a shot for Yokozuna's WWE Championship at SummerSlam 1993. Touring the country via the `Lex Express,' Luger generated the support of an entire country, but he also knew the odds were against him. Not only did Luger have to pin the champion or make him submit, Yokozuna's manager, Jim Cornette, added a clause in the contract that this would be the one and only shot Luger would ever receive at Yokozuna's championship. Luger defeated Yokozuna - and celebrated with the rest of America - but the win was by countout. Therefore, Yokozuna was still WWE Champion. Only thanks an unusual set of circumstances heading into WrestleMania X did Luger receive a second shot at Yokozuna and the WWE Championship.Razor Ramon pinned Ted DiBiase Tag Team Champions the Steiner Brothers defeated the Heavenly Bodies Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels defeated Mr. Perfect by countout Irwin R. Shyster pinned 1-2-3 Kid Bret Hart defeated Doink the Clown by DQ Jerry Lawler defeated Bret Hart by reverse decision Ludvig Borga defeated Marty Janetty by submission The Undertaker pinned Giant Gonzalez in a Rest in Peace Match Tatanka & the Smoking Gunns defeated the Headshrinkers & Bam Bam Bigelow Lex Luger defeated WWE Champion Yokozuna by countoutOverall Mark: B