10 Times WWE Got The SummerSlam Main Event Wrong

by Andrew Soucek

1. SummerSlam 95 - Diesel vs. Mabel

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What The Main Event Should Have Been: Bret Hart vs. Diesel (or just about anything else).

It’s amazing that SummerSlam didn’t die for good after giving us Taker vs. Taker and Diesel vs. Mabel in back-to-back years. They were two horrendous main events, and showed that the WWF had no idea how to keep up with the times. No one bought Mabel as a sudden top star, and Kevin Nash was struggling to gain traction as the champion. Putting them together was like mixing dog puke and goat diarrhea.

The two put on the type of match you would have expected: slow, plodding, largely bumpless. Though Nash did take one hell of a sit-down splash to his back that could have ended his career, and legitimately p***ed him off.

Bret Hart and Diesel worked pretty well together, with their Survivor Series 95 match perhaps being the best of Nash’s career. Those two battling at SummerSlam would have ended the night leaving fans wanting more, and also would have saved us from Isaac Yankem vs. Bret. A brilliant idea all around.

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