10 Biggest WWE Summerslam Controversies

2. Owen Hart Nearly Ends Austin's Career

It's one of the most infamous botches in WWE history.

At SummerSlam '97, Steve Austin was wrestling Owen Hart in a Kiss My Ass match for the Intercontinental title. For some unknown reason, Hart and Austin decided to include asit-out tombstone piledriver in their choreography. Austin's head was positioned far too low and when Hart brought him down with all of his weight, right on his dome, his neck was severely hurt, briefly paralysing the Rattlesnake from the waist down.

Austin couldn't be booked to lose the match - forcing a man who's barely able to walk to kiss another man's ass would have been the feel-bad moment of the decade - and he executed the single worst rollup in wrestling history, pinned Hart and the announcers scrambled to cover up the dreadful mistake.

Austin's neck injury would force him to retire years early and the uproar in its wake was one of the contributing factors to the piledriver being outright banned in the WWE.