10 Times WWE Let Everyone Down At SummerSlam

2. The Entire 1995 Event

CM Punk, Kevin Nash SummerSlam 2011
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One of the New Generation era's worst major shows, SummerSlam 1995 was saved only by a strong Intercontinental Title ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon. The rest of the card was a turgid mess, and nowhere near good enough for a show regularly pushed as WWE's second biggest pay-per-view of the year.

Let's start with the worst of the bunch: the main event.

Diesel's WWE Championship defence against King Mabel deserves to go down as one of WWE's all-time worst headlining matches. While Diesel was never a particularly exciting wrestler, his opponent made him look like Ricky Steamboat. Big, slow, and dangerously clumsy, Mabel's mere presence was enough to kill the match, and his performance was predictably sluggish.

The undercard wasn't much better, either. Bret Hart has stuck facing Isaac Yankem DDS, while The Undertaker had the unenviable task of trying to drag an enjoyable Casket match out of Kama. The undercard flopped too, with Bob Holly vs. a young Hunter Hearst Helmsley the main offender.

Fans have rightly come to expect excellence from SummerSlam, given the event's billing, but while this show wasn't close to the horrors of King Of The Ring '95, it was still one of the year's worst.

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