10 Times WWE Let Everyone Down At SummerSlam
9. The Ring Of Fire (2013)
The Wyatt Family joined WWE's main roster with a tremendous debut angle.
The characters felt fresh, exciting, and most important of all, different. Their creepy pre-arrival vignettes built immense hype, and they soon started battering their way through the roster, with Kane, R-Truth, and 3MB among the first victims.
This was all done to build towards Bray's big in-ring debut. Having spent the past month sending Kane messages to "follow the buzzards," 'The Eater Of Worlds' met 'The Big Red Machine' at SummerSlam. Sadly, the match was a total stinker, and memorable for all the wrong reasons.
An Inferno match in all but name, the Ring Of Fire suffered from each of the stipulation's usual problems. The crippling heat and lack of oxygen forced Kane and Wyatt to work a numbingly slow, plodding contest that did nothing to put Bray over as a decent worker, and he couldn't even win on his own accord, requiring Luke Harper and Erick Rowan's interference to do so.
The Wyatt Family's momentum was almost killed within those eight minutes. Bray has engaged in all kinds of terrible matches and wacky stipulations throughout his run, though few were worse than the Ring Of Fire.