10 Greatest WWE SummerSlam PPVs Ever

But even a top-to-bottom card as strong as 2013's can’t compete with some of the madness we saw on display at SummerSlam 2000.

First off, we bore witness to Shane McMahon facing Steve Blackman for the Hardcore Championship. Sounds innocuous enough, but what followed was a moment of pure insanity that almost beggars belief, as Shane O’ Mac took a bump from the very top of the SummerSlam stage after Blackman had hunted him down and pummelled him with a kendo stick.

As if that wasn’t crazy enough, we were then given the gift of the first-ever Tables, Ladders and Chairs contest, as Edge & Christian defended their Tag Team Titles against The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz. Three of the greatest teams in wrestling history put on an exemplary showing, one that proved to be so great that at WrestleMania X-Seven the next year they were simply asked to go out there and give us more of exactly the same.

Add to that Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit in two-out-of-three falls action, and a stacked Triple Threat main event between the Rock, Kurt Angle and Triple H, and it’s tough to find fault with a show like this.

In the wider wrestling business, the year 2000 was a time when WCW was circling the drain as WWE were well and truly on top of the world, firing on all cylinders. That year’s SummerSlam was a testament to that fact.