3. Ultimate Warrior Won the Intercontinental Championship Multiple Times – SummerSlam 1988
WWE used to be run very differently than it is today. Because they had to tape weeks of television before pay-per-views sometimes wacky things happened.
In the shows taped before SummerSlam, WWE had to find a way to show Ultimate Warrior with the Intercontinental Championship. Honky Tonk Man was set to be beaten by the Warrior at SummerSlam and so WWE worked their wacky magic in the weeks prior to the show.
On each of the shows taped to air after SummerSlam, Ultimate Warrior would beat Honky Tonk Man for the title early in the night, then did his planned segment later in the show.
Afterward, they would reverse the decision and do it again on the next show. So if you went to all of those shows, man, were you in for a surprise.
2. This was the First SummerSlam to top 600,000 buys – SummerSlam 1989
Remember pay-per-view buys? That crazy thing that earned WWE all that money before the WWE Network? What a concept.
SummerSlam 1989 was the first SummerSlam event to top 600,000 buys. This was a different era but 600,000 buys was still a colossal number for the promotion.
When WWE switched to their Network format in 2014, the only pay-per-view that would surpass such a number would be WrestleMania.
Everything else would not even come close. Considering the poor card, this number was a massive success.
1. WWE Wanted Ric Flair for the Event – SummerSlam 1988
Ric Flair heading to WWE in 1991 was a massive deal in the world of wrestling. The biggest icon of the NWA finally jumped ship and made his way to WWE but what you may not know is it could have happened three years earlier.
Vince McMahon wanted to get Ric Flair to come to the WWE in 1988 to wrestle World Champion Randy Savage at the inaugural SummerSlam.
Considering how great their match would end up being at WrestleMania VIII, this would have been quite the treat. Of course, this did not happen as Flair was loyal to the NWA and Ted Turner said he would not purchase WCW without Flair.
Three years later, Flair had burned through that loyalty due to his backstage rivalry with Jim Herd.
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