We're well on our way to SummerSlam 2021, and while it's widely regarding as WWE's 2nd biggest event of the year, there have been some TERRIBLE matches in the past. Join Adam Blampied as he breaks down 20 of the WORST SummerSlam matches in WWE history!
What's your least favorite SummerSlam matchup? Let us know in the comments!
0:00 - Introduction
1:08 - #20
1:45 - #19
2:19 - #18
2:53 - #17
3:28 - #16
4:03 - #15
4:44 - #14
5:27 - #13
6:06 - #12
6:45 - #11
7:30 - #10
8:11 - #9
8:46 - #8
9:26 - #7
10:05 - #6
10:40 - #5
11:32 - #4
12:05 - #3
12:41 - #2
13:45 - #1
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What's your least favorite SummerSlam matchup? Let us know in the comments!
0:00 - Introduction
1:08 - #20
1:45 - #19
2:19 - #18
2:53 - #17
3:28 - #16
4:03 - #15
4:44 - #14
5:27 - #13
6:06 - #12
6:45 - #11
7:30 - #10
8:11 - #9
8:46 - #8
9:26 - #7
10:05 - #6
10:40 - #5
11:32 - #4
12:05 - #3
12:41 - #2
13:45 - #1
#WWE #WWETop10 #SummerSlam
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00:00Tis the season of the Summerfest. God bless us everyone. Here's hoping that Jeremy Piven
00:06visits you in the night and leaves something nice under your pillow, and that's the worst
00:10sentence anyone's ever said. We're on the road to SummerSlam, which is widely regarded
00:14as WWE's number 2 show of the year, and speaking of number 2, oh boy there have been
00:19some turds in the pool at the biggest party of the summer. We'll do a top 10 best matches
00:23in SummerSlam history, don't worry, but WWE released Bray Wyatt last week, so you know,
00:28f**k em. Time to put the boots to the big dub and their stupid habit of doing stupid things
00:33in the stupid summer time. Everything's bad, everyone's terrible, everything you love will
00:37one day crumble to ash, nothing matters, let's do this. I'm Adam Haling from Parts Fun known
00:42here at the 20 worst matches in SummerSlam history.
00:45Spoiler, Team WWE vs Team Nexus isn't on the list. I know, right? Because the match itself
00:51actually kind of rules. It's just an atrocious bit of booking. If you disagree with that,
00:55let me know in the comments, and hey, why not let us know your most hated
00:58SummerSlam match, and make sure you subscribe, because please, please, please do it.
01:0820. Kofi Kingston vs Randy Orton 2019 Oh man, everyone really wanted Kofi's WWE
01:14Championship run to be good. Every month we'd think, maybe this is the one, this is the match,
01:18please Kofi, please stop feuding with Dolph. The feud going into this match was solid, built
01:22on an infamous moment of wrestling, quotes, getting real and legit backstage heat. Unfortunately,
01:27the match is real boring, glacially placed, thanks Randall, and ends the chants of bullsh**t
01:31and the two men get counted out because I guess Randy couldn't stop looking at Kofi's kids?
01:37That's weird. And exactly a year on from AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe ending in a sh**ty leave
01:42my family alone non-finish as well.
01:4521. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff 2003 Always a treat when Eric Bischoff wrestles in
01:51his silly little karate outfit. The man was a fantastic GM, a serviceable dad, but any time
01:55he competed in the ring it was the dog worst. Be it Starrcade 97, Survivor Series 2005 or SummerSlam
02:012003. We all know Shane can go, I mean not now, he's a thumb now, but back then, with the right
02:07wrestler? Sure, Eric Bischoff is not that guy, and what starts out as boring gets downright
02:11unwatchable when Coach heals it up and does solo commentary for it. The Austin comeuppance
02:15is at least a bit fun, but it is a long road to get there.
02:1918. Dean Ambrose vs Dolph Ziggler 2016 When the brand split happened in 2016,
02:25hopes were high for Smackdown. They made a huge deal out of Dean Ambrose taking the WWE title to
02:30the blue brand and marketed the show as the land of opportunity, confirmed when Dolph Ziggler,
02:34the patron saint of missed opportunities, won the right to face Ambrose at SummerSlam. This should
02:39have ruled, but instead the two wrestled a disconnected, storyless, intensely boring match.
02:44Can anyone remember one moment from this match? This match for the WWE Championship at the second
02:50biggest show of the year? Because that's damning.
02:5217. Edge vs Matt Hardy 2005
02:56WWE have a habit of instead of striking while the iron is hot, letting the iron cool on the
03:00windowsill, forgetting they put it there overnight, and then pissing on the iron. Going into SummerSlam
03:042005, the Edge Matt Hardy feud might have been the legit hottest thing in wrestling at the
03:09time. It was a blood feud, soaked in work-shoot hatred. Their match at SummerSlam was super hyped,
03:14but instead it ended by having returning hero Matt Hardy lose in 4 minutes by technical knockout to
03:20enormous boos, shelving the proper match until Unforgiven an entire month later. Don't get
03:26excited about anything ever.
03:2716. The Oddities vs Kyentai 1998
03:31SummerSlam 98, the most bought SummerSlam ever, but not one single ticket or PPV order was made for this
03:37giant waste of time. To be fair, your appreciation of this match is going to depend on how much you
03:40enjoy Kurgan dancing, because he does it a whole bunch. It's a 10 minute match of three large men
03:47who can barely walk, embarrassing some legitimately great Japanese light heavyweight, with Golga pinning
03:52all four lads by himself. A comedy squash that somehow went 10 excruciating minutes, but hey,
03:58at least we got to see shaggy, too dope and violent Jay. I don't miss the 90s.
04:0315. Randy Savage vs Dusty Road 1990
04:07Not so much on the list for what it was, although what it was was also bad, but for what it could
04:11have been. Former WWF champion and ultra-charismatic super worker, macho man Randy Savage vs ultra-charismatic
04:20former NWA champion Dusty Road. Icons of their respective territories meeting at SummerSlam in
04:26a match that went 2 minutes, 15 seconds, and was interrupted by an angle whereby Ted DiBiase purchased
04:33Sapphire, Dusty's sort of manager friend lady. Then the match began. After 2 minutes,
04:38Savage hit Dusty with a purse, and that's a lot. Dusty wore polka dots, but then you already knew that.
04:4314. The Cat vs Terry Runnels 2000
04:47Wow. Prior to the women's revolution of 2015, women's wrestling at SummerSlam was not a thing.
04:53Seriously, Bull Nakano vs Alundra Blaze was decent in 1994. Then there wouldn't be another good women's
04:58match until Stephanie McMahon vs Brie Bella 20 years later. That is saying something. In fact,
05:05throughout the entire decade of the 2000s, there was only one women's singles match at the biggest
05:10party of the summer. Terry Runnels vs The Cat in a stink face match, aka the first lady to rub her
05:15entire butthole in the other's face wins. The match is a mess of slaps, stumbles and Jerry Lawler
05:21before the cat knocks out Terry with head and then… wins. WINS.
05:2713. Hulk Hogan vs The Ultimate Warrior vs Sgt Slaughter, Colonel Mustafa and General Adnan
05:321991. After the dreadful WrestleMania 7 main event, WWE doubled down by having Warrior and Hogan team up
05:39against not one, not two, but three old ass men in the name of sports entertainment. Adnan couldn't go,
05:45the Iron Sheik in disguise couldn't go, so Sgt Slaughter was the agile one for the team and great
05:51googly moogly Luke Owen's hair grows faster than the pace of this awful match that went 12 but felt 40.
05:57It was also refereed by Sid Justice, the only way that added to the story was that Sid occasionally got
06:01in the way. Lots of fun but hey, it's not the worst tag match in SummerSlam history. That would be
06:05great. 12. The Brothers of Destruction vs DDP and Canyon, 2001
06:10In 2001, the song of the summer was entitled F*** You DDP. One of the most enduring,
06:15lovable babyfaces as well as actual good dude humans in WCW history was made into a stalker,
06:21destroyed by Taker at King of the Ring, pinned by Taker's wife on Raw and squashed into Neutrons at
06:25Summerslam in a how-to guide for how to kill someone's brand. It manages to be insulting and boring,
06:31Taker and Kane making the destruction slow and painful. It's such a lifeless drubbing that after
06:37the match, Heyman on commentary starts to spin something positive out of it, saying,
06:41The Alliance? Ah, forget it. Hell, you said it, Paul.
06:4411. Lex Luger vs Yokozuna, 1993
06:48Quite possibly the dumbest produced match in WWE history. A match made infamous by backstage politics
06:54and laughable presentation. Hulk Hogan won the big belt at WrestleMania 9, refused to drop it to
06:58Brett at Summerslam, dropped it to Yoko instead and left the company. Vince then tried to build
07:02Lex Luger as an off-brand, non-union, legally distinct Hulkster replacement but got cold feet
07:07on crowning him at Summerslam, instead booking Lex to beat Yokozuna by count-out instead, only to then
07:13go on to celebrate with a full-on f***ing in-ring parade despite not winning the title. Can someone
07:19please tell him? Please tell him he hasn't won the title. Does he know? Does he know? The match was
07:25slow-ass garbage as well. If Bret Hart couldn't get a good match out of Yokozuna, Lex Luger sure as
07:29hell wasn't going to. 10. Kane vs Bray Wyatt, 2013
07:33That stings a hell of a lot more now, doesn't it? Bray Wyatt has been one of the best characters in
07:38WWE in the last 10 years. Seriously, f*** them. But even that doesn't change the fact that his debut
07:45match was a flame-grilled turkey. Wyatt vs Kane in an Inferno match, sorry, Ring of Fire match,
07:51sounds like a dream on paper, but oh no, it was really boring. The whole thing took place under
07:57weird pink lighting. Bray and Kane had weird anti-chemistry bumping into each other and
08:02fumbling a bunch of spots and even the occasional pyroblast couldn't elevate it. It's a bad start
08:06for who would become possibly the most mishandled wrestler of all time.
08:109. Nails vs Virgil, 1992
08:13Oh Nails, you're… what… what are you? He turned up in WWE looking for revenge against a
08:19big boss man who apparently abused him in prison, had a digitally modulated voice that made him
08:23sound like the claw from Inspector Gadget before getting fired for choking Vince McMahon over
08:27his payout to this match, which is one of SummerSlam's all-time worst matches. Nails was a very
08:32bad wrestler, you see. He has precisely one move, which is choking someone. He chokes Virgil,
08:37who's cosplaying his toothpaste for some reason. Then he chokes him again. Then, just for some variety,
08:41he goes for a choke. Even the rabid UK crowd at Wembley couldn't get into this.
08:468. Jinder Mahal vs Shinsuke Nakamura, 2017
08:50WWE had the chance to take their WWE Championship, take it off an enhancement talent that had repeatedly
08:56proved incapable of having main event quality matches, and instead strapping it to a superstar
09:00who'd been having main event quality matches for a decade, who'd just pinned John Cena clean.
09:05Instead, Sing Interference, Kalass, Jinder wins. Handing Nakis' first main roster loss. The match is
09:11really, really boring. Jinder's got six moves. Punch, Kick, Rest Hold, Sing Interference, Kalass,
09:19and a different Rest Hold. Even Nakamura seems to be sleeping through it. It just
09:25f***ing sucked. 7. Steve Austin vs Owen Hart, 1997
09:29An uncomfortable watch. The first half of the match was good, because Owen Hart's really great.
09:34Austin was a superstar on the rise, and when the two met in a Kiss My Ass match for the IC title at SummerSlam,
09:39hopes were high. But then Owen dropped Austin with a botched sit-out tombstone, compressed the
09:44rattlesnake's neck, and briefly paralysed him. Then the match, terrifyingly, both stopped and continued.
09:50They didn't ring the bell, because then the man with the broken neck would have to kiss
09:54Owen Hart's ass. Instead, they stall, horribly, scarily, until Austin's just mobile enough to give
10:01Owen the worst roll-up in history. 6. The Undertaker vs Giant Gonzalez, 1993
10:09Cryptid Chris with a big bad fist has had some bobbins matches at SummerSlam. Some
10:13merry bobbins matches. I'm sure a whole bunch of you expected me to put Taker vs Taker from SummerSlam
10:1894 on the list, and that's pretty boring, but the hokey panto bollocks just about pulls it through.
10:24This, on the other hand, Taker's still being shackled to a feud with this weird skinned
10:29Bigfoot motherfucker. It sucks. Punches, slow walking and bad-selling the musical. Thank God
10:35at least the Deadman decisively won so we could all put Double G behind us.
10:395. Big Cass vs Big Show 2017 How humiliating. The Big Cass vs Enzo feud
10:46was one of the worst feuds of 2017, with WWE splitting up yet another tag team, only for them
10:51to barely feud and neither man getting over. First Big Cass demolished Enzo at Great Balls of Fire,
10:56then Enzo called in a bigger friend to fight instead, classic babyface, and Cass wrestled
11:01Show at SummerSlam, with Enzo suspended in a shark cage for no other reason than apparently Enzo was
11:06scared of heights, so f**k him. The match sucked, with the crowd deathly silent throughout, and then
11:12the one spot of the match, Enzo taking ages to escape the cage and get into the ring, ended with
11:17him immediately kicked and knocked out. Like the match itself, what was the f**king point? Big
11:22Show's worst SummerSlam match since the one in 2010 where he beat the Straight Edge Society all by
11:26himself. That match was also terrible. I've had to watch a load of really bad SummerSlam matches for
11:31this. 4. Triple H vs Eugene 2004 In 2005, Kurt Angle wrestled Eugene stiff
11:38as a brick and it was an uncomfortable watch, but at least it was 4 minutes. In 2004, Eugene wrestled
11:43Triple H and it went 14 minutes. Jesus wept. The match is a nightmare, with the Toronto crowd having
11:51none of Eugene's bollocks. Roaring Eugene sucks as the commentators have to try and pick apart why
11:55Triple H is being cheered for beating up a disabled person for, once more with feeling, 14 f**king
12:02minutes. A real gross watch and speaking of. 3. Jake Roberts vs Jerry Lawler 1996
12:08Jerry Lawler is a WWE legend but all of his SummerSlam matches have sucked. Lawler vs Taz, that whole
12:15Lawler, Brett and Doink thing. Or this slow moving affair where Lawler spends the entire match offering
12:21known substance addict Jake Roberts bottles of whiskey to not fight him. Roberts has stated in
12:26interviews recently that he hated doing this storyline, branding Vince an asshole for forcing
12:31it on him and yeah, it is f**king rough to watch. That and also dull, right down to the finish which
12:36saw Lawler hit Roberts with a bottle right in front of the ref and not get disqualified.
12:412. King Mable vs Diesel 1995. The worst match at the worst SummerSlam in the worst year in the
12:49history of WWE. That's an achievement fit for a king. Half the matches from this card could have
12:55made the list but it would have gotten duller than the show itself. Bertha Faye vs Alundra Blaze,
12:59Smoking Guns vs the Neo-Nazi Twins, the Blue Brothers, Bret Hart vs The F**king Dentist,
13:05Undertaker wrestling karma for 15 god damn minutes. But the main event managed to outboring them all.
13:12Mable wearing his Burger King cardboard crown awkwardly transitioning from unsafe move to
13:17unsafe move with Diesel doing his best to try and wake up the comatose crowd. Look Diesel jumped over
13:22the ropes. What are you doing Diesel? Before Mable then jumped on his back and injured him to the
13:27point where you can actually hear. You can still hear it on the network. You can hear Diesel shouting
13:33at Mable because he just jumped on his back and f**king nearly broke his back. It's easily the worst
13:39main event in SummerSlam history but while Mable is the king of s**t SummerSlam matches, someone else
13:44is God. That's number one. The Great Khali Trilogy of s**t. 2007, 2008, 2009. It takes someone truly
13:54special to have the worst match on a SummerSlam card, 3 years on the trot. In 2007, Khali fought
14:00Batista in a horrendous match that saw the crowd die after repeated chops, lame pin attempts only to
14:06end in a rubbish DQ finish. In 2008, Triple H couldn't drag something possible out of him as the
14:10crowd screamed, you can't wrestle at him throughout multiple rest holes. In 2009, Khali wrestled Kane in
14:16a s**ty 6 minute plodger in front of another dead crowd. God bless you Kane for bumping for him,
14:22God bless your weird heart. And in 2010, WWE finally saw the light, preventing a four-peat by
14:28pulling Khali from the SummerSlam main event at the last minute, replacing you with Daniel Bryan,
14:33which is like replacing a bullet to the stomach with a cheeseburger. Three years, Great Khali.
14:38Thanks a f**king pack it. And that's our list. What's your least favourite SummerSlam match? Let us
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