15 Superstars With The Most Losses At SummerSlam

Who says wins and losses don't mean anything?!

by Andrew Pollard
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Next to WrestleMania, WWE SummerSlam is viewed by many as the second biggest show of the wrestling calendar. As such, big matches are put on, and even bigger performances are delivered. Not everybody can come out of SummerSlam as a winner, though.

Looking back through SummerSlam history since the PPV debuted in 1988, now is the perfect time to see who SummerSlam's biggest losers are. Be it in singles or tag team action, whether there's stipulations in place, or even if it's not winning a multi-man match, any-and-all failed attempt at victory has been taken into account for this list in order to find out who has picked up the biggest amount of defeats at the biggest show of the Summer.

A couple of participants on this list are actually in matches at this year's SummerSlam event, and so with this piece being penned before SummerSlam, there could even be some amendments needed when this year's extravaganza comes to a close.

So let's get to it. And be warned, some of the inclusions here may very well surprise you.

15. Bret Hart – 4 Losses

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Starting off this list is a man renowned for his excellent SummerSlam matches. That’s not to say he won them all, though.

In fact, one of Bret Hart’s greatest ever matches was a losing effort against Davey Boy Smith in a SummerSlam ’92 Intercontinental Title bout. He’d follow this up with a DQ loss against Jerry Lawler at the next year’s event, in a match where he got DQ’d for refusing to break his patented Sharpshooter.

Bret’s only other 2 SummerSlam losses came as part of the Hart Foundation, with him and Jim Neidhart losing to Demolition in 1988 and The Brain Busters in 1989.

Much like the Hitman, there are a few other superstars with 4 SummerSlam losses under their belts, but they feature higher on this list by virtue of having worse overall records at the WWE’s annual August PPV.

Even with 4 losses to his name, Bret Hart is still the superstar with the most high quality SummerSlam matches on his resume.

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