SummerSlam is that this weeked, so we can be kicking off the week with a glance again on the first ladies’s match within the historical past of the occasion. SummerSlam began in 1988, but it surely wasn’t till 1994 till we obtained a ladies’s match on the cardboard. Technically, there was a match between Sapphire and Queen Sherri booked for the 1990 occasion, but it surely by no means happened as Sherri gained through forfeit. Sapphire by no means got here right down to the ring for the match.
In 1993 nonetheless, the WWF Girls’s Championship was again. It deactivated in 1990 when Rockin’ Robin left WWF. Alundra Blayze was positioned because the champion after defeating Heidi Lee Morgan in a event. In 1994, she would defend towards Bull Nakano at SummerSlam.
The lead as much as this match truly noticed Luna Vachon in a sequence of matches towards Blayze. Nevertheless, Blayze continued to come back out on prime. To assist with this, Vachon introduced in Nakano to face Blayze at this occasion. The match noticed a end result that left Blayze retaining. After a number of involvements by Vachon, Nakano went up prime for a leg drop, however missed because the champion moved out of the best way. Blayze would then knock Vachon off the apron and land a bridging German Suplex to get the pin and retain.
Just some months later, Nakano would turn out to be the WWF Girls’s Champion after defeating Blayze in November. Blayze would win the title again in April of the next 12 months and Nakano would go away WWF and be part of WCW.
Each ladies are actually WWE Corridor of Famers with Blayze being inducted in 2015, whereas Nakano was not too long ago inducted in 2024.
