WWE Summerslam - Ranking the 5 Best Editions in the History of the Event

#5 Summerslam 2001

One of the best World Title matches in Summerslam history.

Marquee Matches - Steve Austin(c) vs Kurt Angle for WWF Title, Booker T(c) vs The Rock for WCW Title

Taking place only months after the end of the Monday Night Wars and the acquisition of WCW and ECW by WWE and in the midst of the Alliance storyline, the 2001 Edition of Summerslam was more about the matches between superstars who represented the Alliance and WWF than genuine rivalries between superstars.

Every fixture on the card had a WWF wrestler fight a member of the Alliance, but the maximum buzz was around the two World Title matches.

Steve Austin's heel turn at 'Mania X-Seven did not turn out how WWE wanted it to be, but it did produce some of the best in-ring work from The Rattlesnake, and this match against Kurt Angle was inarguably the best WWF Title defense of that reign.

Even though it ended in a disqualification, it was a stunning match till the end and laid stone for Angle's victory in the next pay per view.

While the main event between Rock and Booker T was an average affair, it gave the Rock a much needed World Title win. The rivalry between The Undertaker and DDP came to a sorry end for the inventor of Diamond Cutter as he was literally buried by The Brother of Destruction in a steel cage match, and X-Pac defeated Tajiri to became the first superstar to simultaneously hold WWF Light Heavyweight and WCW Cruiserweight Title in WWE.