Ranking All 30 WWE SummerSlam Main Events

16. 1997 – Undertaker (C) Vs. Hart

Shawn Michaels bret Hart SummerSlam 1997
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In hindsight, maybe Bret Hart should have refused the WWF Championship at SummerSlam.

Undertaker and Hart squared off in a main event title match that had the combustible element of Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee, and the stipulations that if Hart lost, he couldn’t wrestle in the U.S. and if Michaels favored 'Taker, he couldn’t wrestle in the U.S. again.

The match started slow, gaining steam as Shawn and Bret jaw-jacked throughout, and then 'Taker and HBK got into it. The match famously ended when Bret spit on Shawn and Michaels swung a steel chair… and hit Undertaker. Hart covered, and Michaels counted three.

The victory would only be temporary though, as Michaels and Hart would square off three months later at Survivor Series… in Montreal.

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