20 Worst Matches In SummerSlam History

17. Edge vs. Matt Hardy – 2005

WWE has a habit of instead of striking while the iron is hot, letting the iron cool on the window sill, forgetting they put it there overnight, and then pissing on the iron.

Going into SummerSlam 2005, the Edge/Matt Hardy feud might have been the legit hottest thing in wrestling at the time.

It was a blood feud soaked in worked-shoot hatred, their match at SummerSlam was super hyped, but ended by having returning hero Matt Hardy lose in four minutes by technical knockout to ENORMOUS boos, shelving the proper match until Unforgiven a month later.

Don’t get excited about anything ever.

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16. The Oddities vs. Kaitenti – 1998

SummerSlam 1998, the most bought SummerSlam of all time, but not one single ticket or pay-per-view order was made for this giant waste of time.

To be fair, your appreciation of this match is going to depend on how much you enjoy Kurgen dancing COS HE DOES IT A WHOLE F**KING BUNCH.

It’s a 10-minute match of three large men who can barely walk, embarrassing some legitimately great Japanese light heavyweights, with Golga pinning all four lads by himself.

A comedy squash that somehow went ten excruciating minutes, but hey at least we got to see Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J. I don’t miss the nineties.

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15. Randy Savage vs. Dusty Rhodes – 1990

Not so much on the list for what it was, although what it was was also shit, but for what it could have been.

Former WWF Champion and ultra charismatic superworker “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. ultra charismatic, former NWA Champion Dusty Rhodes, icons of their respective territories, meeting at SummerSlam, in a match that went 2:15 and was interrupted by an angle whereby Ted DiBiase purchased Sapphire, Dusty’s sort of manager friend lady.

The match started, then after two minutes Savage hit Dusty with a purse and that’s your lot. Oh and Dusty wore polka dots, but then you already knew that.

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14. The Kat vs. Terri Runnels – 2000 

Wow, prior to the Women’s Revolution of 2015, women’s wrestling at SummerSlam was NOT a thing.

Seriously, Bull Nakano vs. Alundra Blayze was decent in 1994, then there wouldn’t be another good women’s match until Stephanie McMahon vs. Brie Bella TWENTY YEARS LATER. That is SAYING SOMETHING.

In fact, throughout the entire decade of the 2000s, there was only one women’s singles match at the biggest party of the summer, Terri Runnels vs. The Kat in a Stinkface match, A.K.A. the first lady to rub her butthole in the others face wins.

The match is a mess of slaps, stumbles and Jerry Lawler, before The Kat knocks out Terri with head and wins.

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