31 Years Of WWE SummerSlam Mistakes

30. SummerSlam '88 - Superstar Billy Graham On Commentary

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'Superstar' Billy Graham was many things: the longest reigning heel WWE champion in history; a wrestling trailblazer who popularised the beach-blonde, muscle-bound look; an enthusiastic lover of tie-dye.

He was not a great commentator.

With Gorilla Monsoon's regular booth buddy Jesse Ventura otherwise indisposed with referee duties in the main event, WWE clamped a headset on to nearest available equivalent. But for all Graham had the look of 'The Body' - heck, he was the one who inspired it - he was nowhere near as slick on the stick.

Graham's incoherent rambling encompassed some casual racism about the hardness of Junkyard Dog's head, amusingly christening Koko B. Ware as "Little Koko Man", and extolling his good buddy Hulk Hogan as "the man I call the man with the bionic biceps!" When Bobby Heenan took a place at the table for Don Muraco's match against Dino Bravo, the rise in quality was remarkable. Pity it couldn't last the whole show.

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