This slideshow will take a look at 11 superstars who stand above the others at SummerSlam and could be inducted into a potential SummerSlam Hall of Fame. Kane is a powerhouse when it comes to matches at SummerSlam. He has one of the most impressive records of any current WWE superstar and has obtained that record against some of the toughest opponents in WWE history. The no-contest came against The Undertaker the next year. In , in his match against King Booker, Batista was attacked by Queen Sharmell and was awarded the victory, but not the World Heavyweight Championship.
The next year, The Great Khali got disqualified after attacking Batista with a steel chair, again preventing him from obtaining the title.
Batista's only loss came in a triple threat match for the Intercontinental Championship in which Edge speared and pinned Chris Jericho to retain the title. Though Shawn Michaels doesn't have the best record in SummerSlam history, he does have one of, if not the greatest match.
The ladder match between Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels has been consdiered not only the greatest match in SummerSlam history, not only the greatest ladder match in history, but some consider it the best match in WWE history.
Angle put Lesnar in the ankle lock again, Brock was tapping, but there wasn't a ref to see it. Cue Vince McMahon, who hit Angle in the back with a chair. I thought Lesnar was going over here especially after that one legged F5, which was spectacular. That's what I want to see! Sell the pain of a move while you do a move. That's what everybody needs to do more often. When Angle kicked out of that it was shocking. Brock gets the ropes three times although not for long, so Kurt keeps pulling him back.
Then Lesnar tapped out at the 21 minute mark. It was surprising because the idea of Lesnar tapping clean was a crazy thought at this point.
That's why I liked the match, though. It was unpredictable and gave us a strong finish. The heels cheated, but they still lost. I love that chant. A month later they had a 5-star 60 minute Ironman Match on Smackdown. These two had amazing matches together every time. This one is no exception.
If there ever was a match that was a coming out party for two guys this one would be it. Embroiled in a feud for much of the summer, the Intercontinental title hung in the balance as the leader of DX Triple H challenged the leader of the Nation of the Domination, The Rock, who was the Intercontinental Champion. At this point neither guy was a World Champion, which is hard to believe because between the two of them they went on to win 20 World Titles combined 22 if you count Rock's two as WCW Champion during the Invasion angle.
You have to start somewhere right? While neither guy had the athleticism of a Shawn Michaels, they made the match work without too many crazy spots. Early on, The Rock worked over Triple H's knee and that set up the first half of the match. Hunter kept coming back, showing the kind of toughness and heart that a babyface should. They fight on the ladder, Hunter falls off, Rock's ready to get the title and then Hunter bounces into the ladder, which knocks Rock off.
Then a cool spot as Rock did a People's Elbow while using the Ladder. It looked ridiculous, but the NYC crowd was cheering for Rock because he was so cool at this point.
Hunter comes back, he goes for the title again, but Rock hits a Rock Bottom. Hunter follows that up with a Pedigree. Then Rock's ally Mark Henry, Mr. Kool-Aid, threw powder in Hunter's eyes to blind him and keep him from climbing. Fuji would have been proud. They fight on top again except this time Chyna, who was with Triple H, punched Rock in the nuts to send him crashing down. Huge positive reaction to that. The crowd was really loud for the entire match. It was a respect thing. Both guys earned their love.
I think it's fair to say that everybody knew these two would be World Champions and in my opinion they had a better match after this Judgment Day , but this laid the foundation for their careers as main event players in the most successful era in WWE history.
They are unquestionably two of the greatest wrestlers in WWE history and this is their breakout match. Once again we're going with a play by play recap for this one. The special referee was Triple H. There's not a lot going on early, but the crowd is very loud. Early control goes to Punk, who gets a high knee to the face that leads to a nearfall. The announcers are doing a good job of setting up the match and its importance although I really wish Jim Ross was calling the match.
Cena hits a gutwrench suplex for two followed by a fisherman's suplex. Cue the "you can't wrestle" chant as Cena looks out at the crowd.
That was fun although I don't necessarily agree. Cena hits a bodyslam followed by an elbow. Punk comes back with a stiff boot to the face. Punk gained control by dropkicking Cena off the apron, which sent him crashing to the floor. The announcers did a good job pointing out that Cena's endurance is excellent. It's true. He doesn't tire much at all and that's one of the things I like about the guy.
We're at ten minutes now as Punk grounds him with a submission. Cena powers out and hits something that looked like a Bossman Slam. That was sweet. Punk counters a shoulder tackle with a knee to the face. Awesome counter. Cena counters the running knee, then he hits two shoulderblocks and Punk counters the suplex.
Punk hits the knee, goes for his bulldog and now Cena hits his suplex. That was a sweet reversal of moves.
Cena goes for the STF, but Punk fights out and puts him in a submission. Cena fights out of it and locks in the STF. Punk counters with a key lock submission. Cena counters that into a Crossface variation.
Punk makes it to the ropes. That was a terrific sequence of counter wrestling as we reach 14 minutes. The action picks up with Punk getting a back body drop on Cena that sends him to the floor. Punk dives through the middle ropes to take out Cena.
Triple H counts them out. He gets to nine. He stops there, then goes out to the floor and rolls each of them back in the ring. The crowd cheers that move as the announcers point out that this means that we'll definitely have a winner. I liked that spot. They did the punch sequence so the crowd could do the "yay" Punk and "boo" Cena. Cena wins the exchange with a picture perfect dropkick that got him right in the face. Five Knuckle Shuffle by Cena.
They replayed the dropkick by Cena. It was as good of a dropkick as he's ever done. Cena hits a Stinger Splash followed by a powerslam for two. Cena goes to the top, but Punk counters with a knee and hits a bulldog off the ropes for a two.
Punk jumps off the top ropes, but Cena moves and puts Punk into the STF right in the middle of the ring as we reach 20 minutes. Punk fights out of it. He reaches the ropes. They have another exchange and there's the first finishing move of the match as Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment. Great nearfall right there. Cena goes up and he misses his legdrop off the top. Punk hits the Go To Sleep.
He doesn't hook the leg. Cena gets his shoulder up at two. Punk to the top, he does a Macho Man Randy Savage pose and he hits a top rope elbow. That gets two. He argues with Triple H. There's a "Randy Savage" chant. I'm loving this crowd right now. They do another back and forth exchange. Punk hits a knee to the face. Punk hits another GTS although he didn't connect very well. As Hunter is counting the pin, Cena's foot is on the bottom rope.
He never saw it. The announcers are immediately pointing it out. The camera closes in on Cena talking to Hunter. We can hear Cena say "you missed it. That's why I didn't rate it five stars, but it's damn close.
They had some awesome counter wrestling exchanges as well as submissions. The nearfalls were good. For all the critics of Cena and the "you can't wrestle" chants the guy proved again that he's very good in big matches. Yes, Punk is the better of the two and that's obvious, but they both did an amazing job here. That was Raw, this was Smackdown. The Undertaker and Edge had a feud that lasted for much of the year with Undertaker winning at WrestleMania, Edge getting his win back later in the year and then this was the finish to the feud after all the stress that Edge had caused Undertaker.
I remember going into the match thinking how can they pull off a Hell in a Cell match without blood, which was a common theme for these kinds of matches? Of course that was a stupid question because these were two of the best in a hot feud and they did everything right in the match.
What was cool is that Undertaker gave Edge a lot of offense and treated him as an equal rather than the underdog. They pushed that angle in the weeks building up to it, so when the announcers talked about how nobody could hurt Undertaker like Edge you actually believed it in this case. That's how you use the story to build up to a match.
The big spot in the match was when Undertaker was leaning by the cage, Edge came charging in at him and speared him through the side of the cage. They obviously must have gimmicked that part of the cage to allow it to get unhinged easier.
Edge continued the assault by hitting him with a monitor to the head and then speared Undertaker through one of the announce tables while running across all of them. It was a very memorable spot. Undertaker managed to get back up, they went into this crazy sequence of nearfalls that was big move after big move.
The big turning point spot of the match was when Edge went for the Old School clothesline only for Undertaker to counter it and chokeslam him through tables. To wrap it up Undertaker did all of his payback spots like the Spear to Edge, a camera shot to the head, a conchairto and then he finished it with a Tombstone for the pinfall at the 27 minute mark.
After the match, Undertaker chokeslammed Edge "straight to hell" as the ring collapsed and lit on fire.
Edge was gone for a few months after this to heal up from various injuries. I liked the mix even with the PG setting. The term "marking out" is a commonly used phrase by fans of professional wrestling. It's another way of saying that somebody is excited about something that they are watching. When my favorite wrestler ever Shawn Michaels returned to the ring at Summerslam everybody wondered how good would he be. Would he be like the HBK that was arguably the wrestler of the 90s or would he be a shell of his former self and somebody that was broken down due to the back surgery he had?
It was the same old HBK we know and love. The match was a street fight, which allowed them to do some tricks to help the flow of it in case Shawn wasn't up to his normal speed. The match was a lot of fun and they went long at 28 minutes. Who comes back after four years to work such a long match? That's who. Hunter was bleeding, Shawn was selling every back bump as if it was going to put him in a wheelchair and everybody watching believed that it would do that.
The biggest spot of the match was HBK propping up a table on the floor, laying HHH across it and splashing him off the top. In the ring, he hit an elbow drop off the ladder. I'll never forget him doing the "I'm crazy" hand motion. The finish saw the superkick get blocked, then the Pedigree countered into a roll though cradle for Michaels.
He won the match and everybody was loving it. Post match, HHH hit him twice in the back with his trusty sledgehammer to put Michaels out for a few more months. We didn't know how much longer HBK would work. It turns out it would be another eight years. This was a very good brawl that really was better than I thought it would be.
Who knew that Michaels would come back after four years to be this good again? It was awesome. Watching it live, all I could think about was how all I wanted was to see Michaels walk out of there safe. It was great for HHH too. His face run just didn't work that well in He's more natural as a heel and this was his first big match as a heel in over a year. He delivered. The spots they worked were perfect.
Everything made sense, everything had the right flow and as is always the case with these guys, the timing was spot on. It's a really fun, emotional match that is one of those memorable ones that will last a lifetime.
Tables, ladders and chairs. Oh my. The match had a lot of moments where guys are falling off ladders, taking chair shots or going through tables making you say "ouch" with everyone. Bubba's full nelson bomb on Christian off the ladder was a sick spot early on. Then there was Jeff Hardy getting shoved off the ladder by Edge, only to land on a prone ladder that ended up slingshotting into Matt's face while he was on the ground.
There were parts of the match where Edge was creaming the Dudleys with really stiff chairshots those aren't even allowed today , but they barely get a reaction because it seems like nothing compared to the Hardy's legdrops off the ladder or Christian getting tossed off the top landing on Edge while he is sandwiched in between a ladder.
Towards the end, Bubba climbed the "20 foot ladder" in the middle only to be shoved off over the top rope all the way to the stacked tables on the floor. So then Matt gets to climb, but D'Von pushes the ladder back backwards into some tables on the other side of the ring in another sick landing. Those four events, along with King of the Ring , are known as the "Classic Five".
Pro Wrestling Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit this page. History Talk 0. SummerSlam Universal Conquest Wiki. New York, New York. Pick: Roman Reigns retains the title. As miserable an idea as it is to continue bringing Goldberg back to struggle to create a memorable three-minute match, it's clear WWE and Goldberg are content to continue doing it until Goldberg's three-minute matches look like the last time he tried to go eight minutes.
It wouldn't make sense for Goldberg to win here, but it didn't make sense for him to take the title off Bray Wyatt and it happened, effectively permanently destroying The Fiend character and setting off a chain reaction that eventually led to Wyatt and WWE parting ways. In the interest of a misguided shocking title change in front of a packed stadium, it may happen again. Pick: Goldberg to win the title.
Raw Women's Championship -- Nikki A. Rhea Ripley vs. Charlotte Flair. Her Money in the Bank cash-in was a nice moment, but the "Almost a Superhero" gimmick is not exactly setting the world on fire and when it fully runs out of steam, it's going to get bad quickly.
Ripley struggled as champion, not quite seeming ready to run with the ball quite yet, though she clearly will be as she gets more main roster experience.
It may not make fans happy, but Flair is still the top of the heap on the Raw side and it just seems she is the most reasonable pick to leave SummerSlam with the belt. Pick: Charlotte Flair to win the title. The one guarantee here is that the match is going to be outstanding. Belair and Banks proved their elite-level skills mesh perfectly at WrestleMania.
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