10 Worst WWE SummerSlams Ever - According To Dave Meltzer
8. SummerSlam 1991 (2.34)
Suffering through Meltzer's lens perhaps due to WWE's pedestrian match quality in the early 1990s, SummerSlam '91 is at least a joyous festival of fan service even when action bell-to-bell sometimes stumbles.
It's a card fondly remembered for torch-passing Intercontinental Title clash between Mr Perfect and Bret Hart that fused high octane physicality with glorious emotional triumph, but Dave's low snowflake count doesn't take notice of the explosive reactions triggered from a raucous Madison Square Garden crowd across the evening.
Lifting the company's tag straps to complete a AWA/NWA/WWE triple crown, the Legion of Doom gave The Nasty Boys a cathartic kicking, whilst the Big Boss Man looked at his physical peak in disposing of The Mountie, which itself triggered a series of hilarious vignettes of the Canadian lawman's journey through a host of New York prison clichés.
Though again a contest not on par with New Japan's output today (or All Japan's in 1991), Virgil claiming his ultimate reparation in the form of Ted Dibiase's Million Dollar Belt was a career high for the former bodyguard, and a credit to the magnificence of Dibiase on his best day. Effectively the payoff to a four year story, it it exemplified WWE pathos done right.