10 WWE SummerSlam Secrets You Need To Know About

9. Live-To-Tape

Highest attended SummerSlam
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Since Triple H brought NXT to the UK for a phenomenally successful tour and TakeOver supercard in 2015, the calls have been louder than ever from British fans for WWE to finally follow on from the phenomenally successful SummerSlam 1992.

The Wembley Stadium showpiece was at the time a glittering reminder of the company's brightest days - enormous crowds responding to performers that had - for one night least - an Andre/Hogan aura about them. It was a shot in the arm for a struggling product, with matches and visuals that would live on for years until the company again rose in stature and back into stadia.

Such was the snail's pace of content nearly three decades earlier, the show wasn't even broadcast to the US pay-per-view audience live. It took three days for it to reach home soil - the very delay that WWE used as the primary reason why such an event could never happen again as the world got online either side of the new millennium. Administration was always going to be trickier, but the likelihood of spoilers until TakeOver: London's aforementioned success completely harpooned British hopes.

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