SummerSlam 1996
WrestlingFeuds documents two storylines that ran through SummerSlam 1996, held on August 18, 1996.
Storylines that built through here
The Undertaker vs. Mankind (Apr 1996 – Jun 1998)
Mick Foley debuted as Mankind by ambushing The Undertaker the night after WrestleMania XII, took Paul Bearer away from him inside a boiler room, and two years later took two falls off and through a sixteen-foot cage in Pittsburgh that reset what a WWF main event was allowed to look like.
The Undertaker · Mankind · Paul Bearer · Terry Funk · Kane
The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels vs. Sycho Sid (Jul 1996 – Jan 1997)
Shawn Michaels spent his 1996 WWF Championship reign defending it against the same handful of opponents, until his one-time bodyguard turned attacker turned ally, Sycho Sid, chased off a rival at ringside and earned a title shot of his own. Sid beat Michaels for the belt in front of a Madison Square Garden crowd that booed the champion out of the building, and Michaels won it back two months later in San Antonio while running a fever, only to forfeit the title three weeks after that over a knee injury Bret Hart never believed was real.
Shawn Michaels · Sycho Sid · Vader · Ahmed Johnson · Jim Cornette · Owen Hart · British Bulldog · Bret Hart · Steve Austin
Wrestlers involved
- The Undertaker
- Mick Foley
- Paul Bearer
- Terry Funk
- Kane
- Shawn Michaels
- Sycho Sid
- Vader
- Ahmed Johnson
- Jim Cornette
- Owen Hart
- British Bulldog
- Bret Hart
- Steve Austin