10 Best WWE SummerSlam Main Events Ever - According To Dave Meltzer
1. SummerSlam 2008 - The Undertaker Vs Edge (****1/2)
A gloriously epic payoff to one of the longest simmering rivalries in the company's post-Attitude Era tenure, The Undertaker's decisive Hell in a Cell victory over Edge capped off the best non-WrestleMania match period of 'The Deadman's entire career.
Exhibiting the chemistry that had carried their rivalry through multiple pay-per-views that year including a magnificent WrestleMania main event, the SummerSlam show-closer even fed into Edge's own return the prior November in a separate Hell In A Cell contest between 'The Deadman' and Batista.
Without the help of a scorned Vickie Guerrero and his decimated goon squad, Edge was systematically destroyed by his larger rival. An even-handed match eventually went in favour of Undertaker, as he completed a sequence that gave the wily heel absolutely no chance of recourse.
Chokeslamming Edge through a table, then hitting a Spear, then a shot with the camera as Edge had done in Taker's aforementioned Batista defeat, then hitting a con-chair-to and then a Tombstone, Undertaker made Edge feel every pain he had endured during the entire feud.
It was a perfect, perfect conclusion to their war. Writing Edge off of television for months, Undertaker chokeslammed 'The Rated-R Superstar' through the ring to finally see him off for good.