10 Fascinating WWE SummerSlam 1991 Facts
1. It's The Only SummerSlam That Did A Greater Buyrate Than The Same Year's WrestleMania
SummerSlam 1991 was imperiled by the damage done to Hogan's name following the disastrous Arsenio Hall interview, and the buyrate was down mightily from one year earlier. In all, SummerSlam 1991 did 405,000 buys on pay-per-view, down 20 percent from 1991's 507,000 buys, and a whopping 35 percent from 1989's 625,000. The air was leaking out of Hulkamania, the whistling noise only growing in volume.
Still, the 1991 show holds the distinction of being the only SummerSlam to outdo the buyrate of the WrestleMania from the same calendar year. WrestleMania 7 not only flopped with the insipid Iraq War storyline that only had designs on filling one-fifth of the Los Angeles Coliseum, but it got beaten out by SummerSlam by about 5,000 buys, drawing 400,000 on its own merit.
That fact doesn't even rank in the top twenty most bizarre and quirky things associated with WWE in 1991, but it's still worth the mention.