Summerslam 88

Hey Scott,


I was just watching an old episode of ‘Prime Time’ from 1988, and they were hyping up the card for the inaugural SummerSlam.

My question is: Why was this card booked so lackluster? I mean, aside from a main event tag match that people were interested in, the rest of the card (at least most of it) looked like a glorified B-level house show.

Obviously they could have used this new PPV event to at least blow off some feuds, right? But instead, the card was populated with the likes of the aging JYD, Ken Patera and Don Muraco in meaningless matches.

Why was this planned so badly?

Gracias.

​I think they were still operating under the "Don’t give away the house show matches on PPV" mentality at that point, especially with Summerslam being a secondary show to Wrestlemania. ​