10 WWE SummerSlam Secrets You Need To Know About
7. Close To Nature
Just as he'd done with the inaugral WrestleMania, Vince McMahon picked his favourite location for the first ever edition of SummerSlam. Mindful that this venture into a third annual pay-per-view needed to carry the heft of the events that had preceded it, he stacked the Madison Square Garden with another spinoff of the biggest main event he'd ever sold.
Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant joined Randy Savage and Ted Dibiase respectively for a blockbuster doubles main event between 'The Mega Powers' and 'The Mega Bucks', but McMahon almost delivered a main event he'd ultimately have to wait another four years for.
As Flair put it himself in an interview with Sports Illustrated in 2017, he said; “I was on my way to work for Vince McMahon and wrestle Randy Savage at the Garden. My contract was up and Vince McMahon had been in touch with me. But I decided my best move was to remain in the NWA because I was so attached to my friends in the Four Horsemen. I thanked McMahon for the offer. I just couldn’t get myself to leave. I was too attached to my friends down there and too loyal to the NWA. Ultimately, it worked out, and I ended up working for Vince later. I respected Vince so much for asking me, but at that point, I just could not find a way to leave.”