Originally, the Ultimate Warrior and Jake Roberts were scheduled to have a story angle, following the vignettes they had filmed not long before SummerSlam. A possible match up between the Warrior and Roberts was in the pipeline for SummerSlam '91 but this never materialized.
Macho Man Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth get married at the end of the show. In real life, Randy Poffo and Elizabeth Hulette had been married for seven years. They divorced in real life a year later.
In his memoirs, Legion of Doom member Animal (Joe Laurinaitis) stated that the applause he and Hawk (Mike Hegstrand) were given was the loudest in their careers.
Featured a backstage segment with Bobby "The Brain" Heenan (Bobby Heenan) outside WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan's locker room holding Ric Flair's NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt. WWF to that point had generally ignored the existence of other promotions, so this was a very big deal. WCW Executive Vice President Jim Herd had fired Flair on July 1st, when Flair was still the WCW World Heavyweight Champion.