The WORST Moment From EVERY WWE SummerSlam
17. You’ve Got 8 Seconds, Lads! (2009)
What on earth were WWE thinking here?!
Management gave Christian’s ECW Title defence vs. William Regal just 8 seconds at SummerSlam 2009. Their entrances were longer, as you’d probably guess, and the whole exercise was an insult to workers that talented. By comparison, duff matches like Kane vs. The Great Khali (9 minutes) and MVP vs. Jack Swagger (8 minutes) received bags of time on the card.
Sadly, the ECW Title was made to look like a total afterthought. That might've been fair enough had the belt been on someone like future champ Ezekiel Jackson, but Christian and Regal were/are world class workers who deserved a lot better than this slap in the face in front of a packed Staples Center in LA.
Regal hadn't even removed his entrance attire before Christian smashed him with a quick Killswitch and pinned him to retain the belt. The announce team screeched with faux shock at what had just happened, and WWE chirpily pretended that any of this had been worthwhile. It wasn't, to be blunt.
Christian and Regal could've put on a clinic out there. They'd have done a better job with 8-10 minutes than some aforementioned matches on the same show, but it wasn't to be. Nobody would've been gutted (other than the wrestlers themselves, of course) had MVP vs. Swagger been relegated to the subsequent episode of Raw or SmackDown instead of taking place on PPV.
The same goes for a thoroughly dull Kane vs. Khali big man battle no-one actually bought SummerSlam to see.