The RAW announce team introduce us to the final package of the night. It features The Heart Break Kid, Shawn Michaels and The Immortal Hulk Hogan. This is a match that wrestling fans have waited along time for, as it features the mega star of the 80’s facing of against a man of the same fame in the 90’s. The video shows HBK asking Hogan to come back for “One More Match” and be his tag team partner in a match versus Kurt Angle and Carlito. Hogan returns and wins the match by dropping the leg. After the match Hogan and Michaels celebrate with the tradition Hogan poses. This is when Shawn surprised everyone and hits Hogan with the Sweet Chin Music. This is what leads to Michaels cutting the famous promo that is basically a shoot on Hulk Hogan. This all builds to the Main Event that is about to go down, Hogan Vs. Michaels: For The First Time Ever!

The Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels enters first and he is accompanied by one of the greatest theme songs annals in the business, Sexy Boy. Shawn stops and kneels on the ramp, as to say a prayer, and the pyro explodes before he hits the ring. He does the normal Shawn poses once in the ring and I was surprised he doesn’t get anymore pyro once he’s in there. The crowd starts the “Hogan” chants and it takes a moment before we hear the greatest theme in the history of the business, “Real American”. When Hulk Hogan enter the arena the crowd is going nuts and the roar becomes even louder as he begins to pose. Just when you think it can’t get any louder, a giant American Flag comes down behind the Hulkster and the top comes off the building. Hulk hits the ring and continues his traditional “I cant hear you” taunt. Great stuff here folks and it features arguably the two greatest theme songs in the business.

Before the bell sounds, Michaels rolls from the ring as if he doesn’t want to have the match. The crowd is going bonkers and Hogan is making gestures to imply he is breaking Michaels in half. After some time Michaels returns to the ring and the official sounds the bell. They circle around the ring a few times, and eventually enter into the collar and elbow. Hogan is quick to shove Shawn to the floor, and HBK is over-selling already. Lets get this out of the way now. This was supposed to be a best-of-three series, but Hogan changed his mind late. Hogan cited Shawn’s “unprofessional behavior” and the shoot promo HBK cut six days prior on RAW as the main reasons for this. This then made Shawn frustrated with Hogan and hence the over-selling of bumps. Now, back to the mat.

After a few more slow chops, Michaels leads Hogan to the opposite corner. When Shawn tries to smash Hogan’s face into the turnbuckle Hogan stops it by putting the foot up. This is where he really lays into Hulkster with a slap. When Hogan tries to punch him, Shawn ducks and pastes him with another slap. This apparently hurts Hulk and he is back in the corner getting beat with the knife-edge chops. Hulkster reverses another Irish whip to the corner that sends Michaels flipping onto the apron. He lands on his feet though and when Hogan approaches him, Shawn hits him with another slap. These definitely appear to be shoot slaps and have a nice, well, slap to them. Hogan decks him with a right though and this sends Michaels crashing to the floor. Hulk joins him out there this time and bangs Shawn’s head off the security wall. Hulkster slams Michaels onto the Spanish announce table and hits him with some hammering rights. Hogan does a quick slide into the ring to break the refs count and is quick to return his attention to Shawn. After Hogan whips Shawn into the ring post, he picks Michaels up as if he is going to snake-eyes him into it. Shawn escapes with the backslide and instead shoves Hogan into the pole. After another shove into the pole from Michaels, the dazed Hogan rolls back into the ring. And Shawn is right there behind him. Shawn puts Hogan in the corner and starts to hammer away the ten count. After only three he shoves Michaels to the mat but Shawn no sells it and is quick to start the ten count over. The shove away happens after four this time and Michaels splashes back onto Hogan this time. Shawn doesn’t bounce off and applies a side headlock, punching the head of Hulk the whole time. Hogan eventually goes to the ground but Shawn is still hammering away at his head. The ref has to pull Michaels off the Hulkster and when we are shown Hogan’s face again he is donning a nice crimson mask. For only taking some punches, the blood is really starting to flow. Maybe the Hulkster went a little deep with this blade job.

After a few more closed right fists from Shawn, Hogan soon finds himself in the grips of Michaels sleeperhold. Hogan starts to waver here and drops to a knee. Hogan’s face is leaking like a faucet now and all over the arm of Michaels. The ref checks the Hulkster’s arm for consciousness and before the ref can drop his hand for three we see the “I don’t think so” finger from him. This sends the crowd into a frenzy as Hogan starts to “Hulk-Up”. He escapes the sleeper with the suplex and this leaves both men shaking on the mat. Both men slowly make it to their feet and when Hogan reverses Shawn’s whip into the ropes it backfires. Shawn catches him with the flying forearm and when he nips up the crowd explodes for him. The Heart Break Kid takes to the top ropes and when he comes off for the elbow drop the Hulkster moves. Hogan is quick to his feet and is in true “Hulk-Up” mode now and so are the Hulkamaniacs. Hogan points the finger at Michaels and when Shawn throws a punch, the Hulkster counters it. Hogan hits his three punches and sends Shawn into the ropes. The fans all think the boot is coming, and so did I, but Shawn comes sailing back off the ropes and level Hogan and the ref with a forearm.  The ref rolls from the ring as both men lay prone on the mat. Shawn again nips up and goes right back to the top turnbuckle. The fans start a “We want Bret” chant here so we see Michaels mouth “You want Bret?” and he comes back into the ring. He then does such a great thing and puts Hogan in the Sharpshooter. A ref re-enters the ring and when Hogan gets close to the rope Shawn drags him back to center. Hogan eventually drags himself back to it and the ref forces the break. Shawn tries to reapply it, but this time Hogan kicks him away. Of course Shawn collides with the new ref and knock this one out too. The Hulkster is now the first one to his feet and Shawn is kneeling in the center of the ring. When Hogan tries to pick Shawn up he gets nailed with a low blow. Shawn then leaves the ring and grabs a chair. He then delivers a chairshot to the top of Hogan’s skull. Shawn goes up top again, and this time when he comes off he drives the elbow into the chest of Hogan. Shawn Michaels then heads to the corner and is Tuning up the Band. Shawn lands that Sweet Chin Music and goes for the cover….

The Immortal Hulk Hogan tosses him off at the count of two and instantly starts to “Hulk-Up”. The crowd are in an absolute frenzy now and Shawn has a great look of disbelief on his face. The Hulkster absorbs three punches before he points the finger and lands three of his own. Hogan hits the big boot and this maybe the most oversold move in the history of the business. HE makes the crowd even louder with the “I cant hear you” before he drops the leg and gets the three count.

After the “Hogan Must Pose” session, Shawn Michaels re-enters the ring and shoves Hogan from behind. The two men stare each other down before Michaels offers up the handshake. The Hulkster takes it and this is a great moment is wrestling history. If it wasn’t for Shawn overselling the whole match and being a complete dick, we would of had a much better end product. That being said, the match was still great and if you care about this business you should watch this historic event. I have read that Shawn has since apologized for his actions in this match, and rightfully so. Match Time-21:24

This was another great SummerSlam and I enjoyed it pretty much top to bottom. The three must watch matches here in my eyes are; Hogan/Michaels, Mysterio/Guerrero and Taker/Orton. But you cant go wrong if you just watch the whole card. As I always do at the end of these, lets see what Dave Meltzer thought of the card. These star ratings are acquired from www.profightdb.com. Dave has the Jericho/Cena match as the highest rated at 3.75 stars. Mysterio/Guerrero and Hogan/Michaels aren’t to far behind with 3.5. The lowest rated match was the opener with a quarter star. Well that does it for this edition of the Chairshot Classic and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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