Ranking All 29 WWE SummerSlam Main Events Ever

24. Team WWE Vs. The Nexus (2010)

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For one fleeting moment, it looked like WWE had figured out a clever way to redo the nWo invasion storyline in a fresh way, using rookies from its farm system to “take over” the company. Then John Cena went and killed it dead in an instant.

The seven Nexus rookies squared off against seven WWE superstars in an elimination match that had the potential to boost the rookies (or at least some of them) to new heights in one evening. While the match itself was fine, the ending – Cena overcoming the odds to win – effectively killed the entire angle. Edge and Chris Jericho, who were both on Team WWE, have discussed via podcast how Cena changed the ending from a Nexus win to a Cena victory (and how Cena later admitted he was wrong), so there’s no sense in reliving it all.

But for the poor booking decision alone, this deserves to be in the bottom third of SummerSlam main events, match quality be damned.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.