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10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE SummerSlam - Edge’s WILD 2008 Pitch! The Original Plan For '88! Hulk Hogan's Unique Record! 2004’s Dodgeball Disaster?!

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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WWE almost opened the "Forbidden Door" before AEW could... Simon Miller presents 10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE SummerSlam...


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0:00.0

It is time for the hottest event of the summer, also known as SummerSlam.

0:04.3

When you break it down, WWE show names are very silly.

0:07.5

Given that we may be getting one of the biggest shows ever come August though,

0:10.8

I, SummerMilla, heard what culture decided, you should know 10 things you didn't know about the event.

0:18.4

I totally screwed it up, number 10, the amount of people who have attended.

0:22.0

So you can't argue it now, SummerSlam has become a beast.

0:25.6

It sells out stadiums and as of me talking, it's going to do around 50,000 tickets for the 2023 version.

0:31.8

That's amazing. If we look at the previous 35 iterations between 1988 and 2002 though,

0:37.4

do you want to know what we're up to? 735,997 people have gone to see it live.

0:44.2

Wow, it's definitely going to increase light mad as WWE is simply going to be running bigger

0:48.7

buildings, but even then, getting almost a million individuals to SummerSlam over the years

0:53.5

is quite the stat. I think there may be something to do this.

0:56.7

The first part is we didn't include the 2020 Pretty Mume Live event,

1:00.1

because why bother? Humans didn't exist then, without that, we'd be even further ahead.

1:05.6

9. The original plan for 1988, whether you want to believe it or not, plans change.

1:11.1

Vince McMahon especially can never make up his mind, and this was true even way back during

1:15.4

SummerSlam number 1. When all was said and done, we did get the mega powers versus

1:19.2

Andre the Giant and Ted D. Biosi, which was pretty cool, but the mature man Randy Savage almost

1:24.3

took on Ric Flair. Now today that doesn't sound so shocking, but at the time the nature boy was

1:29.5

absolutely wrapped up with the NWA, but as he had some struggles on that side of the fence,

1:33.8

there were some conversations about making the jump. In the last moment, Flair decided this was a

1:38.4

bad idea and he didn't do it. Given that this would have meant Ric making his WWF debut in Madison

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