Reception
Writing for Online Onslaught, Adam Gutschmidt felt that the event had some humorous moments but did not offer a solid card of wrestling. He enjoyed the match between The Hart Foundation and Demolition, but he rated the Bad News Brown vs. Jake Roberts and Orient Express vs. Jim Duggan and Nikolai Volkoff matches as duds. He gave the Randy Savage vs. Dusty Rhodes match negative one star. Julian Radbourne of Bleacher Report enjoyed the event, particularly the tag team title match. He felt that the Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude match was not as good as their previous encounter, but he stated that the event was "well worth viewing". The columnists reviewed the event for 411mania. Stuart Carapola felt that the match for the WWF Tag Team Championship was the highlight; he enjoyed the show at the time but saw nothing particularly special looking back at the event. Arnold Furious felt that the storyline for the tag team title match was too complicated and that the main event match was "really poor". He thought that the show had too many matches, some of which served little purpose, and that the show is not worth recommending. Sydney Brown felt that the match for the Intercontinental Championship was "nothing" but that the tag team title match was good; Brown felt that both main events were the best of any SummerSlam to that point and gave the event a B-minus.
The attendance for the event was 19,304, which was the lowest attendance of the first seven SummerSlams. The WWF collected $338,452 from ticket revenue. The pay-per-view buyrate was 3.8, which was down from the previous year's 4.8 but higher than the following year's 2.7 buyrate.
SummerSlam 1990 was released on VHS by Coliseum Video on September 27, 1990, in the United States. The VHS edition was released in the United Kingdom on April 6, 1992. It was first released on DVD as part of Silver Vision's WWE Tagged Classics series on August 1, 2005. The event is also included as part of WWE's SummerSlam Anthology boxed DVD set. The anthology was released on August 5, 2008 in North America and was released on October 6, 2008 in the United Kingdom.
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