10 Times WWE SummerSlam Was Better Than WrestleMania

6. SummerSlam 2000

TLC SummerSlam 2000
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A blockbuster pay-per-view that was at long last a celebration of one of the most wonderful calendar years in WWE history, SummerSlam 2000 was everything that year's WrestleMania failed to be. With the exception of the 'TLC' sequel.

'The Show Of Shows' was little more than a showcase showdown back in April, with multi-man matches getting everybody on the card but failing to live up to expectations set by white hot weekly television shows and some of the best in-ring work the company had ever put forth. The triangle ladder match was a wonderful coming out party for Edge & Christian, The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz, as well the division they were midway through crafting. But the follow-up was even better.

The Tables, Ladders & Chairs match increased the danger on a show that that was hard to steal. Triple H and The Rock had a blinding WWE Championship battle with third man Kurt Angle legitimately concussed for most of it. Shane McMahon fell a hundred million feet in the sort of sh*tkicking he'd be too vain to take a decade and a half later, and Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit's pulsating two-out-of-three falls match was as much an exhibition of WWE's dominance over WCW in every category as it was a technical triumph.

 
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