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SummerSlam is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event, produced every August by professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The event was created in 1988, with its inaugural event taking place on August 29, 1988 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. The event was a pay-per-view unlike the Royal Rumble of that year which was broadcast as a television special on USA Network. SummerSlam was created as a pay-per-view to help the company compete against rival promotion World Championship Wrestling (formerly Jim Crockett Promotions). The event has been dubbed as "The Biggest Event of the Summer." ^[1] Along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble and Survivor Series, the event is one of the "Big Four" pay-per-views and was one of the original four annual WWE pay-per-views.

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History

Development

In the late 1980s, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s main competition in the professional wrestling industry was from Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP). McMahon countered Jim Crockett's successful Starrcade pay-per-view, which began airing in 1983, by making the WrestleMania franchise. After WrestleMania III, the most successful professional wrestling pay-per-view event in history, McMahon made the Survivor Series franchise, which aired the same day as Starrcade '87 in November 1987. After defeating Crockett in the ratings, McMahon made the Royal Rumble, an event airing for free on the USA Network in January 1988, which set a ratings record for the network with eight million households tuning in to watch the event. In retaliation, Crockett made the Clash of the Champions event, which aired simultaneously with WrestleMania IV. WrestleMania IV garnered higher ratings, and not long after, Crockett filed for bankruptcy and sold his company to Ted Turner, who renamed it World Championship Wrestling (WCW). ^[2]

As the WWF continued to replace its closed circuit programming with pay-per-view programming, McMahon added more pay-per-views to the lineup to capitalize on the success of his previous events. In addition to WrestleMania in March, the Royal Rumble in January, and Survivor Series in November, McMahon made an event for August, which he named SummerSlam. To keep the WWF from having a pay-per-view market monopoly, Turner began airing monthly WCW pay-per-views, and both companies began bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. ^[3] SummerSlam became one of World Wrestling Federation (and later World Wrestling Entertainment)'s most successful events and one of the "Big Four" pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Survivor Series, and the Royal Rumble. ^[4] ^[5] Those four events, along with King of the Ring, are known as the "Classic Five". ^[6]

Brand extension

The first SummerSlam was held on August 29, 1988 in Madison Square Garden in New York City. In 2002, WWE instituted a brand extension,where the roster was split and wrestlers and pay-per-views were made exclusive to the RAW and SmackDown! brands. As a result, SummerSlam, WrestleMania, the Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series were the only four events featuring wrestlers and matches from both brands. The 2006 event was the first to also feature the newly made ECW brand. ^[7] In 2007, however, all pay-per-views began once again featuring talent from all three brands. ^[8]

Dates and venues

Event	Date	City	Venue	Main Event
SummerSlam (1988)	August 29, 1988	New York, New York	Madison Square Garden	Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage vs. Ted DiBiase and André the Giant
SummerSlam (1989)	August 28, 1989	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Meadowlands Arena	Hulk Hogan and Edward Leslie
SummerSlam (1990)	August 27, 1990	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	The Spectrum	Warrior (wrestler)
SummerSlam (1991)	August 26, 1991	New York, New York	Madison Square Garden	Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior vs. Sgt. Slaughter, Iron Sheik
SummerSlam (1992)	August 29, 1992	London, England	Wembley Stadium	Bret Hart (c) vs. Davey Boy Smith
SummerSlam (1993)	August 30, 1993	Auburn Hills, Michigan	The Palace of Auburn Hills	Rodney Anoa'i
SummerSlam (1994)	August 29, 1994	Chicago, Illinois	United Center	The Undertaker vs. "Brian Lee
SummerSlam (1995)	August 27, 1995	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh Civic Arena	Kevin Nash
SummerSlam (1996)	August 18, 1996	Cleveland, Ohio	Gund Arena	Shawn Michaels (c) vs. Big Van Vader
SummerSlam (1997)	August 3, 1997	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Continental Airlines Arena	The Undertaker (c) vs. Bret Hart for the WWF Championship
SummerSlam (1998)	August 30, 1998	New York, New York	Madison Square Garden	Stone Cold Steve Austin
SummerSlam (1999)	August 22, 1999	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Target Center	Steve Austin (c) vs. Mick Foley
SummerSlam (2000)	August 27, 2000	Raleigh, North Carolina	Entertainment and Sports Arena	Dwayne Johnson
SummerSlam (2001)	August 19, 2001	San Jose, California	Compaq Center	Booker Huffman
SummerSlam (2002)	August 25, 2002	Uniondale, New York	Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	The Rock (c) vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship
SummerSlam (2003)	August 24, 2003	Phoenix, Arizona	America West Arena	Triple H (c) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Kevin Nash vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Randy Orton vs. Bill Goldberg
SummerSlam (2004)	August 15, 2004	Toronto, Ontario	Air Canada Centre	Chris Benoit (c) vs. Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship
SummerSlam (2005)	August 21, 2005	Washington, D.C.	MCI Center	Hulk Hogan vs. Shawn Michaels
SummerSlam (2006)	August 20, 2006	Boston, Massachusetts	TD Banknorth Garden	Adam Copeland
SummerSlam (2007)	August 26, 2007	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Continental Airlines Arena	John Cena (c) vs. Randy Orton for the WWE Championship
SummerSlam (2008)	August 17, 2008	Indianapolis, Indiana ^[9]	Conseco Fieldhouse	The Undertaker vs. Edge in a Hell in a Cell match
SummerSlam (2009)	August 23, 2009 ^[10]	Los Angeles, California	Staples Center	Jeff Hardy (c) vs. CM Punk in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the World Heavyweight Championship

DVD box set

WWE released a complete DVD box set entitled SummerSlam: The Complete Anthology , which showcases every SummerSlam event from 1988 to 2007 in its entirety, on August 5, 2008. ^[11]