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The History of SummerSlam

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock chronicles the history of every WWE SummerSlam event from 1988 to 2024.

In this audio-only podcast, Pollock discusses each event’s notable highs and lows, best and worst matches, business metrics, and ranking within his top, middle, and bottom tiered system.

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Hello, everybody. It's John Pollock, and it is the history of SummerSlam special here at

1:23.4

Post Wrestling. I did this for WrestleMania back in April and I thought we would revisit

1:28.7

this concept for SummerSlam, which is coming up next weekend in East Rutherford, New Jersey

1:34.4

for two nights at MetLife Stadium. So today, we are going to go through year by year looking

1:41.0

at some of the business notes, highs and lows of each year's SummerSlam,

1:45.3

how it performed, and we'll also slot each SummerSlam into a top, middle, or bottom tier

1:51.8

for all of the events going back to 1988.

1:55.9

I'll make mention of the reported buys over the years.

1:59.8

We have the disclosed number of buys that WWE would

2:04.3

have to report in their earnings filings post-1999. And then before that period, it's reliant

2:12.4

heavily on outlets such as the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. David Bixixen Spann a number of years ago did an

2:19.0

interesting research piece looking at data from Kagan research that also gives us a variation

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