25 Greatest WWE SummerSlam Matches EVER
4. The Rock Vs Triple H (SummerSlam 1998)
Triple H and The Rock expertly used their Madison Square Garden masterpiece to announce their intentions to dominate the future of the industry. Both succeeded in their stated aim.
In defeat, 'The Great One' couldn't have looked more poised to break out as the biggest threat to Stone Cold Steve Austin's spot atop the company and industry at large. Ultra-charismatic and becoming too cool to be crucified by the audience that once despised him, Rock was still just enough of a heel to make Hunter's climactic grasp for the strap a cathartic moment for the D-Generation-X leader.
Meshing magnificently as they had before and would many many times in the future, the pair battered one another with the ladder in an Attitude Era rendering of prior classics. Rock was particularly devastating, gleefully enjoying his work as he sought not just to retain his title but to definitively defeat D-Generation-X as leader of The Nation Of Domination. Hunter's snatching of the strap may have ostensibly signalled victory for the degenerate quintet - but Rock and Hunter were both major winners on the night.