SummerSlam (1992)
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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 | The SummerSlam You Thought You'd Never See! | ||
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The 1992 SummerSlam was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the fifth annual SummerSlam and 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. It remains the highest attended wrestling event to take place in Europe.[4] 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sachdev, Tathya (10 August 2023). "AEW All In 2023 Smashes WWF SummerSlam 1992 Attendance Record". eWrestlingNews.com. Retrieved 13 August 2025.