10 Worst WWE SummerSlams Ever - According To Dave Meltzer
2. SummerSlam 1990 (1.83)
Professional Wrestling is many things to many people, but the core of Vince McMahon's model is predicated on stars. 'Superstars', as he'd eventually force into the parlance.
Throughout the late 1980s, Hulk Hogan was his ticket-selling star, but with his push came a complete reclassification of the way WWE matches traditionally played out in order to cater to a new money-making machine.
It's perhaps this ideology that drowns SummerSlam '90 in a Meltzer mire, so fabulous are the moments of joy rooted within a heel-heavy pay-per-view.
Victories, be it decisive or otherwise, for Hogan as well as the Ultimate Warrior, the Hart Foundation and the Texas Tornado leave an audience glowing with pride for their worthy heroes. But elsewhere, the show is a night for squashes, and the matches that service the nefarious ne'er-do-wells and dominant do-gooders are either short, boring or a combination of the two.
Completely distracted by the show-long 'Where's Sapphire?' angle, Dusty Rhodes is callously brushed aside by Randy Savage in a waste of both, whilst quick wins for Warlord and a Jim Duggan/Nikolai Volkoff send the show careering off a cliff.
With the Harts/Demolition doubles duel stealing the show in the middle, only the opener comes close to it, in a gloriously one-sided match that allows the legitimately injured Shawn Michaels to rest on the floor whilst partner Marty Jannetty takes an unapologetic kicking from the wicked Power & Glory.