25 Greatest WWE SummerSlam Matches EVER

25. Ted Dibiase Vs Virgil (SummerSlam 1991)

"Virgil's best ever match" almost damns this clash with faint praise, but this grand payoff to the former bodyguard's three-year abuse arc with his evil employer was also one of Ted Dibiase's finest efforts too.

WWE had patiently waited not just to have Virgil turn on the Million Dollar Man, but to have Dibiase's vanity belt switch owners. The turn took place at the Royal Rumble, their first match at WrestleMania VII, and the long-awaited win here.

A red hot Madison Square Garden crowd clung on to every shred of pathos the pair inserted in to a scientifically simplistic scuffle that relied so much more on the conflict between the characters than what moves each man used on the other. Pro wrestling rather than deathly dull good wrestling, this made the impossible possible either side of the confines of kayfabe - Virgil legitimately looked like a main event star in victory.