WWE: Top 10 Matches In Summerslam History

The biggest event of the summer. Call it what you will, Summerslam is one of the historic events in WWE history. One of the big four pay per views along with Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble and Survivor Series, Summerslam was created in 1988 and held at the historic Madison Square Garden in New York City. The main event on that night saw the Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan & WWF Champion, Macho Man Randy Savage) take on the Mega Bucks (Million Dollar Man & Andre the Giant.). Fast forward to 2014, well be seeing WWE Champion, John Cena defending the title against The Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnrar.With Summerslam just around the corner, I plucked out what I consider as the best matches in the events history. It was difficult selecting these 20 matches from the vast variety, it was a lot of fun! Remember that this list is just based on my opinions. You may disagree with the selections and thats fine.

#10 Edge vs. Undertaker (Hell in a Cell) 2008

****1/2 When you look back at WWE 2008, there was a huge change taking place around the summer time. After a decade of being a TV14 rated programme, the WWE returned to a PG rated show after the whole Chris Benoit tragedy from the previous year.

This feud was a highlight from that year (along with the amazing HBK/Jericho feud) but I remembered thinking, how will they pull off a Hell in a cell match without blood? Blood was a common novelty in these kind of matches. The big spot in this match was when Edge speared Undertaker though the side of the cage. They must have gimmicked that part of the cell in order to create that effect.

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 near falls that was big move after big move. The turning point came when Edge mocked Undertaker by going for “old school” but Undertaker countered the move and chokeslammed though a table!

I liked how they incorporated different weapons in the match, think of it as a mix of Hell in a Cell and a TLC match. That’s the uniqueness of the match right there! Some of the Undertaker’s spots in this match involved a spear to Edge, a camera shot to the head, a conchairto and the finish was a Tombstone Piledriver. After the match, Undertaker chokeslammed Edge “to hell”. In reality, Edge took some time off to heal some injuries.

What I liked about this was the way Undertaker treated Edge like his equal rather than the underdog and allowed him to get in a lot of offence too. Most of all, I’d consider this to be one of the best matches of the PG era so far.