10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About SummerSlam

SummerSlam is the biggest party of the summer. We know this because Michael Cole reminds us upwards of 10,000 times every single year.

WWE is immensely proud of its annual August pay-per-view - which sits, alongside WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series, in the list of its super-big Big Four shows - and takes great pains to impress upon its audience the history and splendor of the event each time it comes near.

But SummerSlam is now in its 30th year, and you really can't expect to put on that many live wrestling shows without a hitch. For all of its great, era-defining matches (and weddings), the biggest party of the summer has also given us one or two moments that some people would rather forget. In fact, enough to count on both hands.

By some people, we mean WWE, which has in recent years taken to airbrushing its history to ensure that tidbits like these never see the light of day. Unfortunately, though - thanks to the internet - some particularly disobedient fans just won't let them die. That's us.

Virtually every major WWE pay-per-view event has been televised live in North America. The only ones that haven't were those appointed "UK exclusive" shows like Rebellion and Insurrextion, one of which was once headlined by a match involving Paul Heyman.

But in August 1992 they had a problem. SummerSlam was set to emanate from London's Wembley Stadium - England's first and, to date, only legitimate WWE PPV - and there was no way you could broadcast the show back in the States during the mid-afternoon (particularly as SummerSlam used to go out on a Monday).

So, they aired 1992's London summer extravaganza on tape delay instead - and, although this was before the internet really emerged as a source of wrestling gossip, plenty of fans doubtless already knew the results.