10 Worst Endings In WWE SummerSlam History
The Biggest Party (Pooper) Of The Summer.
This year's SummerSlam is going to be really weird.
The "Biggest Party of The Summer" is going to be more like your Grandma's 90th than Spring Break, with no crowd to revel in what should be one of WWE's biggest shows of the year.
Although, when you think about it, perhaps the crowds at the following ten SummerSlams might have wished they weren't there.
In its 32 years, WWE's August spectacular has given us plenty of tripe and nowhere is that more obvious than in the history of its main events.
Bad matches, bad angles, botches, injuries, and full-on meltdowns have dominated the final match of the SummerSlam card for decades, but what is the worst of the worst?
The following ten main events all sucked for one reason or another. Whether they just ruined the show they were on or had far-reaching ramifications, these matches are infamous and some of them rank among the most-hated in WWE history.
So let's take a stroll down memory lane, but take a nose peg with you - some stinkers lie ahead.
10. SummerSlam 2001
We'll start with a match that wasn't actually that bad, but led to something far worse.
As we were in the thick of the Invasion angle at the time, SummerSlam 2001 had a WWF vs. Alliance theme. Choice matches included Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Hardy in a ladder match, Stone Cold vs. Kurt Angle for the WWF title, and the main event of Booker T defending his WCW Championship against The Rock.
The idea of the WCW title being defended in the main event of SummerSlam would have seemed ludicrous just six months earlier, let alone with one of the WWF's biggest ever stars as the challenger.
In a great back-and-forth match, The Rock kipped-up whilst Booker T was Spin-a-Roonie-ing to hit the Rock Bottom and win the gold.
The Rock winning the WCW title signaled the direction that the company was taking with this storyline. Going forward, the title would bounce around between The Rock and Chris Jericho, two established WWF stars, whilst the WCW imports were left out.
Whilst the match was fun, it was the clearest example yet that the Alliance angle was becoming less about new WCW and ECW stars and more about the existing WWF names.