Every SummerSlam Women's Match Ranked - From Worst To Best
Only one match stands in the way of Sasha/Charlotte II topping this list in 2017...
This coming Sunday at WWE SummerSlam Sasha Banks and Charlotte will collide once again in a hotly-anticipated bout for the WWE Women's Championship. Many expected the 'Biggest Party of the Summer' to act as the official crowning of The Boss, but as it transpires Banks will enter as the hunted, not the hunter. Times they have a-changed.
We live in good times when the prevailing assumption ahead of a Women's Championship match is that it should be good, because a cursory glance at the history of women's singles matches at SummerSlam makes for fairly grim reading. There haven't been a whole lot of such matches at WWE's second biggest show, but only three could claim to be good. Three could also claim to be abhorrently bad.
After the particularly miserable match at SummerSlam 2000 (which you'll read about shortly), WWE didn't book a single one-on-one women's match at SummerSlam for 10 years. A decade, for those keeping count. There was a battle royal in 2007, but 'women's battle royal' was pretty much the only card in the 'women's division match choice' box WWE creative had at that time.
So here we are, the women's one-on-one matches from the history of SummerSlam, from the very worst to the very least worst. Where will Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte feature on this in 2017? I dare say rather high...
9. The Kat Vs. Terri - 2000
This was the final women's singles match at SummerSlam for an entire decade, which either gives you an idea of how bad it was or how little interest WWE paid in the division during the first decade of the new millennium. I'm going with the former, on account of this being really bad.
Saying that, what did you expect? It is The Kat vs. Terri Runnels, arguably two of the worst in-ring females of an entire generation. This was a 'Thong Stinkface' match, and if you are too young to know what that means I think it is best for an entire generation of wrestling fans if things remain that way.
This was one of those Attitude Era matches that promised full-on sexuality going in, but pulled back at the last second because obviously. This was dreadful, utterly dreadful. The Kat won (by rubbing her backside in Terri's face). Everyone else lost.
To put this into some sort of perspective, this was the meat in a sandwich that included Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho and the first ever TLC match on the one side, and The Undertaker vs. Kane and The Rock vs. Angle vs. Triple H on the other.