10 WWE SummerSlam Records You Didn’t Know About

It’s a pretty bold claim to ever suggest that any show is better than WrestleMania, but in the case of SummerSlam 1991, such a claim may well have been true.

Or at least, it’s true if we consider PPV buy rates the be-all and end-all success gauge.

Because in 1991, SummerSlam managed to amass 405,000 buys, versus the 400,000 of WrestleMania, meaning the summer show was approximately 1.25% better (or more purchased) than that year’s Showcase of the Immortals. Not sure how that works, but you get the point.

SummerSlam 1991 was headlined by the kayfabe wedding of Miss Elizabeth and Macho Man Randy Savage, while a few months prior, Hulk Hogan had beaten Sgt. Slaughter for the WWE Title at WrestleMania.

Given that this all went down when I was still little more than a fetus, I’ll let you form your own conclusions on which show was the better of the two. But considering the 1991 Royal Rumble recorded 440,000 buys of its own, perhaps this was more a case of WrestleMania under-performing rather than SummerSlam overachieving.