10 Worst Endings In WWE SummerSlam History

10. SummerSlam 2001

We'll start with a match that wasn't actually that bad, but led to something far worse.

As we were in the thick of the Invasion angle at the time, SummerSlam 2001 had a WWF vs. Alliance theme. Choice matches included Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Hardy in a ladder match, Stone Cold vs. Kurt Angle for the WWF title, and the main event of Booker T defending his WCW Championship against The Rock.

The idea of the WCW title being defended in the main event of SummerSlam would have seemed ludicrous just six months earlier, let alone with one of the WWF's biggest ever stars as the challenger.

In a great back-and-forth match, The Rock kipped-up whilst Booker T was Spin-a-Roonie-ing to hit the Rock Bottom and win the gold.

The Rock winning the WCW title signaled the direction that the company was taking with this storyline. Going forward, the title would bounce around between The Rock and Chris Jericho, two established WWF stars, whilst the WCW imports were left out.

Whilst the match was fun, it was the clearest example yet that the Alliance angle was becoming less about new WCW and ECW stars and more about the existing WWF names.