10 Worst SummerSlam Main Events Ever - According To Dave Meltzer
7. SummerSlam 1993 - Yokozuna Vs Lex Luger (**3/4)
It's quite something to be labeled a 'choker' in an industry with predetermined results, but Lex Luger somehow attained that tag in the early 1990s following several failed attempts at dethroning Ric Flair in WCW then later stumbling against WWE Champion Yokozuna despite an incomprehensibly expensive push in the summer of 1993.
'The Lex Express' bus that carted Luger around from town to town in one of the company's more desperate bids for fan support following his July 4th bodyslam on the evil Japanese champion still remains one of the company's bigger misfires, with the former 'Narcissist' taken off WWE's house show road in order to journey down real ones signing autographs and taking pictures like a presidential candidate.
The SummerSlam 1993 main event thus had a certain air of expectation about it, not least as it sat in the lofty shadow of Hulk Hogan's exit via Yokozuna the prior June. Even more red, white and bloody blue than 'The Hulkster', the vitality of America as we knew it sat on Lex's chiseled shoulders ahead of a WWE Title definitely being draped over one of them.
And yet, it didn't happen. Following a lousy match that lacked the audience engagement of Yoko's enjoyable efforts against Hulk and Bret Hart that same year, Luger used his illegal steel-plated elbow to knock the sumo star to the floor and claim a...count-out win. He then celebrated like he'd won the title anyway, which only highlighted how empty the glory was.