Ranking All 30 WWE SummerSlam Main Events

4. 2014 – Cena (C) Vs. Lesnar

Cena Lesnar Suplex
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Some will say that this match is ranked too high, but let’s not lose sight of both the significance and the spectacle of this match: Brock Lesnar essentially squashed living WWE icon John Cena to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

Lesnar delivered 16 German suplexes to a clearly outmatched Cena en route to winning his first world title in more than a decade. Michael Cole described the match by saying, “It wasn’t even close,” which was one of the truest, if understated, comments about it. Cena never had a chance in a match that looked more like it belonged on Superstars than the main event of SummerSlam.

Brock would hold the title until WrestleMania 31 the following spring. Coincidentally, that’s also when Cena would finally capture gold again, this time as United States Champion.

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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.