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| Promotion | World Wrestling Federation | ||
| Date | August 29, 1992 (aired August 31, 1992[1][2]) | ||
| City | London, England | ||
| Venue | Wembley Stadium | ||
| Attendance | 78,927[3] | ||
| Tagline(s) | The SummerSlam You Thought You'd Never See! | ||
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The 1992 SummerSlam was the fifth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on Saturday, August 29, 1992, at Wembley Stadium in London, England and aired on tape delay on Monday, August 31, 1992. It was the first major WWF pay-per-view to take place outside North America.
The pay-per-view included two main event matches. In the first, The Ultimate Warrior challenged "Macho Man" Randy Savage for the WWF Championship. The Ultimate Warrior won the match by countout but did not win the title. In the other main event, "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith pinned Bret Hart to win the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship. The undercard also included The Natural Disasters retaining the WWF Tag Team Championship against the Beverly Brothers and Shawn Michaels and Rick Martel wrestling to a double countout in a match with the stipulation that the wrestlers were banned from hitting each other in the face.
The event had an attendance of 78,927.[3] WWE themselves claimed a disputed attendance of 80,355, which would make it their seventh-biggest event. Between ticket prices and merchandise sales, the WWF made over $3,650,000 in revenue. Reviews of the event are almost all positive, with the Smith–Hart match rated as the best match in SummerSlam history.
On April 29, 2022, it was announced that a 30th anniversary DVD and Blu-ray would be released for the United Kingdom and European markets to celebrate the anniversary of the event on August 29, exactly 30 years to the event taking place. The release would also include all live event dark matches for the first time which are not a part of the WWE Network showing or on the previous release.[4] During a WWE Live event at London's O2 Arena that same day, it was announced that WWE would return to the United Kingdom to host another major stadium event titled Clash at the Castle in September 2022.[5]
- ^ Cawthon, Graham (2014). the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 4: World Championship Wrestling 1989-1994. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1499656343.
- ^ "2007 Wrestling Almanac & Book of Facts". Wrestling's Historical Cards: SummerSlam 1992 (London, England, Wembley Stadiu). Kappa Publishing. 2007. p. 128.
- ^ a b Observer Staff (14 April 2014). "Apr 14 2014 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Most newsworthy week in years, WrestleMania, Hall of Fame, post-Mania Raw, death of Ultimate Warrior, so much more". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
93,173 (WrestleMania III), 80,676 (WM 29), 80,355 (SummerSlam 1992 at Wembley Stadium) and 80,103 (WM 23). The real numbers for those shows were 78,000, 72,000, 78,927 and 74,287.
- ^ Bee, Daniel (29 April 2022). "Breaking: SummerSlam 1992 – 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray/DVD Added to WWE Home Video Schedule!". wrestlingdvdnetwork.com. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- ^ Russell, Skylar (29 April 2022). "WWE Reveals Clash At The Castle Name For U.K Stadium Event, Ticket On-Sale Date Set". Fightful. Archived from the original on 29 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.