SummerSlam (1995)

rdf:langString SummerSlam (1995)

rdf:langString SummerSlam

rdf:langString SummerSlam

rdf:langString Promotional poster featuring Diesel

rdf:langString The Undertaker defeated Kama

rdf:langString Barry Horowitz defeated Skip

rdf:langString Bertha Faye defeated Alundra Blayze

rdf:langString Diesel defeated King Mabel

rdf:langString Hakushi defeated The 1–2–3 Kid

rdf:langString Hunter Hearst Helmsley defeated Bob Holly

rdf:langString Shawn Michaels defeated Razor Ramon

rdf:langString The Smoking Gunns defeated The Blu Brothers

rdf:langString Bret Hart defeated Isaac Yankem, DDS by disqualification

rdf:langString Singles match for the WWF Championship

rdf:langString Singles match for the WWF Women's Championship

rdf:langString Ladder match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship

rdf:langString Face the Heat

rdf:langString The 1995 SummerSlam was the eighth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on August 27, 1995, at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A total of nine matches were contested at the event. The main event that was for the WWF Championship competed between Diesel and King Mabel. Diesel retained the championship, pinning Mabel after performing a clothesline off the second rope. There were three matches on the undercard that had more build-up than other matches: The Undertaker defeated Kama in a Casket match; Bret Hart defeated Isaac Yankem by disqualification after Yankem and Jerry Lawler attacked Hart while Hart was in the "hangman" position. The third match on the undercard that had significant build-up was Shawn Michaels versus Razor Ramon in a feud for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. The two faced off in a Ladder match, with Michaels retaining the title. The pay-per-view received a 0.9 buyrate, equivalent to approximately 205,000 buys in 1995 (1.0 equated to roughly 230,000 homes in the domestic market that year). Although this was up on the buyrate for the In Your House 2 pay-per-view which took place the previous month, the buyrate was down on the 1994 SummerSlam event, which received a 1.3 buyrate. Summerslam 1995 was the last WWF PPV before the Monday Night Wars era of September 4, 1995, to March 26, 2001, during which WWF's Raw and World Championship Wrestling's Nitro competed for ratings in a weekly Monday night time slot, which is now widely seen as the "golden age" of pro-wrestling.