10 Times WWE Let Everyone Down At SummerSlam
8. WWE Dominate The Alliance (2001)
The wheels had come off the Invasion angle several weeks prior to SummerSlam 2001, but it was still salvageable by the time August 19th rolled around.
Mistakes had been made, and The Alliance were rarely treated like a legitimate threat. Still, with eight individual championships on the line, the right set of SummerSlam results could've tiled the angle in their favour, and recovered some much needed credibility.
Unfortunately, Vince McMahon had no intention of making his former rival promotions look good. The WWE side absolutely dominated the night, leaving with all but two of the titles, acquiring several new ones in the process.
Edge pinned Lance Storm to take the WWE Intercontinental Title in the opening match. X-Pac left the night as a double champion, having added Tajiri's WWE Light Heavyweight Title to his WCW Cruiserweight belt, while The Brothers Of Destruction did the same in the tag division. The Rock became WCW Champion in the main event. Depressingly, The Alliance's only championship gain was Rob Van Dam's Hardcore Title victory over Jeff Hardy.
A miserable night for the WCW/ECW side, SummerSlam 2001 wasn't quite the Invasion's death knell, but it definitely reduced the angle's momentum to a slither.