callanvass Live from East Rutherford, NJAttendance 20,000Your commentators are Tony Schiavone & Jesse VenturaThe Hart Foundation Vs The Brain Busters The Brain Busters win. Really good opener. Just good old-fashioned, classic tag-team wrestling. Started off a little slow...but picked up to become a lot of fun.Dusty Rhodes Vs The Honky Tonk ManDusty wins win Jimmy Hart accidentally nails Honky with the guitar. Not very good at all. Pretty mediocre and dull. The crowd LOVED Dusty though.Mr. Perfect Vs The Red RoosterMr. Perfect wins with the Perfect-Plex pretty easily. This was a glorified squash match and it didn't last very long.The Rockers & Tito Santana Vs The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers & "The Model" Rick MartelMartel and The Rougeau's win. This was another really fun match on this card. You had 6 really good performers in this match so it was pretty hard to screw that up. Still...quite fun.Intercontinental Title"Ravishing" Rick Rude (C) Vs The Ultimate WarriorThe Warrior wins the title, thanks to Roddy Piper. Solid match overall. Nothing spectacular...but the storytelling was good and it had plenty of action. Crowd was rabid for everything, which also helped.A bunch of interviews with Mr. Perfect, Roddy Piper, Ronnie Garvin, Bobby Heenan & Rick Rude take place.Demolition & "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan Vs The Twin Towers & Andre The GiantDemolition and Duggan win after Duggan uses the 2 x 4. Pretty terrible...but also fun at the same time if that makes sense. The antics from the faces were kinda fun.Hercules Vs Greg "The Hammer" ValentineRonnie Garvin is the guest ring announcer. Valentine gets the pin with his foot on the ropes...but Garvin announces Hercules as the winner. This was very weird and kinda pointless overall.Ted Dibiase Vs Jimmy SnukaDibiase wins by countout. Pretty decent stuff from these two. It was kinda meaningless and I don't see why Dibiase couldn't get a clean win here. Snuka was here to put over talent at this juncture.Hulk Hogan & Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake Vs "Macho Man" Randy Savage & ZeusHogan and Beefcake win after Hogan pins Zeus. Meh. It was an average main-event. Zeus was such a silly character and had no business main-eventing a PPV. He was just fodder for Hogan.It started off well...but it's a tad inconsistent for me to praise it too highly, definitely watchable and definitely worth a watch, though.6/10

zkonedog While the first SummerSlam event (1988) was a great premiere, this second edition takes a couple of steps backward due to only a couple really great matches and a "main event" that is anything but.The only two matches I really enjoyed from SummerSlam '89 were:-Hart Foundation vs. Brain Busters. Featured some great technical wrestling (as Bret Hart is always good for). -Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude. Just a classic feud that they let play out at THIS event instead of letting it percolate to the next Wrestlemania.Then, we have the "Zeus" angle (from the WWF film production "No Holds Barred") for the main event, as he teams up with Randy Savage to take on Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake. It is so obvious that Zeus is a film-promoting gimmick that it is kind of sickening. Plus, the Hogan/Savage feud had already been resolved at the previous Wrestlemania, so the bloom was off that rose.Overall, then, I felt that SummerSlam '89 was kind of a disappointment with its gimmicky main event and low quality of matches. Also, and perhaps this is a result of it being only the second event in the show's history, but this one seemed like little more than a place-holder for upcoming angles/arcs.

BobbyUK Here are the matches . . .Hart Foundation v Brainbusters: Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard actually have the tag titles here but the match was signed before they had them so this contest is a no title match. The Foundation look impressive here and The Brainbusters sell every move, even the basic ones, as if their lives depended on it and the psychology is flawless. A couple of nice moves involve Bret flipping and reversing to make double armdrags, Niedhart slingshot to the outside and Anvil reverse slamming Bret onto Tully for an attempted pin which is interrupted by an Arn Anderson double axe handle off the top rope. Arn then makes the switch and the pin. A very intelligent match from both sides and a great way to kick things off. 8/10 Dusty Rhodes v Honky Tonk Man: The effeminate Dusty takes control to start with and gains a psychological hold on Honky by roughing up his hair. Jimmy Hart's megaphone comes into play when it gets whacked in Rhodes's stomach (probably the only time the megaphone hasn't been decisive in a Hart match). The guitar becomes the decider when Jimmy Hart accidentally smacks Honky over the head with it aiming for Rhodes who gets the pin. Honky's delirious interview after the match is hilarious. 3/10 Red Rooster v Mr Perfect: Terry Taylor pretty much kills his wrestling career by posing as a rooster in this match with the impeccable Curt Hennig. Perfect performs a lovely hip-toss and standing dropkick. Rooster attempts to slam Perfect but falls backwards for Perfect to receive a 2 count. I reckon Taylor injured himself because seconds later Perfect scores the Perfect Plex for the pin. 4/10The Rockers and Tito Santana v Rougeau's and Rick Martel: Santana from here becomes a jobber to the stars and Martel has some relatively successful feuds - even their feud gets ignited once every year thereafter if they meet at The Royal Rumble. This energetic match is fast-paced throughout and shows some nice double team moves on both sides, Martel settling into his heel role very well. The match ends when Martel makes the save on a Marty Jannetty rollover pin attempt on Jacques (even though Michaels was the legal man) and pins him making this the first and last PPV win for The Rougeaus. 6/10 Ultimate Warrior v 'Ravashing' Rick Rude for the Intercontinental title: Warrior no sells Rude to start with and gorilla presses Rude to the outside where Warrior follows him and whacks him over the back with the Intercontinental belt which sparks off the famous 'he can do what he likes he is outside the ring' exchange between Jesse Ventura and Tony Schiavonne. Rude attempts the 'Rude Awakening' neck breaker but Warrior powers out of it. The action escalates when both wrestlers collide with the referee which causes Warrior to power-slam and pile-drive Rude for a near 3 count. The only bad point to the match is Rude messes up a reverse pile-driver but it doesn't look too obvious. 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper comes along and moons at Rude which distracts him enough for Warrior to belly to back suplex him off the turnbuckle, gorilla press and splash for the pin and the Intercontinental title. A great moment in the WWF and a brilliant promo by Bobby Heenan afterwards. 9/10 Demolition and 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan v Twin Towers and Andre the Giant: Duggan enters the ring with his face painted in the stars and stripes while wearing a crown and robe. Andre the Giant can barely stand up without falling over so needs to be in a tag team to carry him throughout the rest of his wrestling career. Smash creates the highlight by slamming both Twin Towers to a crowd pop. The match ends when 'Hacksaw' smacks Akeem over the back with his 2 by 4 and places Smash on top of him. Mercifully short. 4/10 Hercules v Greg 'The Hammer' Valentine: 'Rugged' Ronny Garvin starts the proceedings as ring announcer stammering through his weak insults against The Hammer. This match is absolutely hopeless as Greg gets the illegal pin with feet on the ropes over poor ol' Herc. Ronny puts a spanner in the works again as he informs the referee of the injustice and reverses the decision to disqualification in Hercules's favour. 2/10 'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka v 'Million dollar man' Ted Dibiase: The only eventful thing that happens in this match was Snuka botching a reverse leapfrog and landing on top of Dibiase. The rest is rather boring as Snuka predictably gets distracted by Virgil as he attempts the Superfly splash on Dibiase. Snuka gets counted out chasing after Virgil but manages to get revenge by performing the move on Virgil after the match. 2/10 Hulk Hogan and Brutus 'Barber' Beefcake v 'Machoking' Randy Savage and Zeus: It's Savage's second Summerslam in the main event and the second time he was overshadowed - this time by a talentless actor called Tom 'Tiny' Lister. The match is mostly a brawl with 'Machoking' settling into Ted Dibiase's role the year previously carrying his partner through the match, noticeably giving him instructions throughout as Brutus looks convincing in his role of support as Hogan does his thing. Elizabeth plays her part as cheerleader. The match ends illogically because Zeus is portrayed as indestructible that even chair shots don't affect him yet it only takes a couple of Hogan clotheslines at the end to rock Zeus. Hogan takes the loaded purse and wallops Zeus in the face with it. Hogan completes the slam and running leg drop for the pin. 6/10 Overall, a great event that goes downhill featuring the lacklustre undercard matches at the end, especially after the excellent Intercontinental title match. With a bit of match reshuffling Summerslam 1989 would feel more balanced.

jcraft-1 This was a great wresteling event from 1989. It was held at the Medowlands Arena in New Jersey. I like the main event which was Hulk Hogan and Brutis "The Barber" Beefcake vs. The "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Zeus. That was a classic WWF Event. One other of the matches I thought was also great was Dusty Rhodes vs "The Honky Tonk Man." I will remember "The Blue Blazer" aka the late Owen Hart for his great wresteling matches including this one with "Mr. Perfect" Curt Henning. Also, This was Andre The Giant's Last summerslam as he teamed up with The Big Boss Man and Akeem to take on "Hacksaw" Jim Duggin and The Rockers Shawn Micheals and Marty Jenatty. In anther great Match, This is a rematch from wrestlemaina 5, The Ultimate Warrior Tooked on "Ravishing" Rick Rude for the I.C. Belt and I loved it when the Warrior won his second I.C. belt. Rowdy Rowdy Piper was there, too. This was a great Pay-Per-Veiw.