WWE SummerSlam: Ranking every main event in history

9. SummerSlam 2015: Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker

The match that’s always going to be remembered the most from the Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker rivalry is WrestleMania XXX when Brock finally broke The Deadman’s undefeated streak. In my opinion, however, this was by far the better match and comes in at the ninth-best main event in SummerSlam history. The booking was a little strange but I still think it played nicely.

At this point in time, Brock Lesnar hadn’t lost cleanly in over two years. In turn, The Undertaker hadn’t wrestled at SummerSlam in seven years but after beating Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 31, the same event where Lesnar lost his WWE Championship when Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and pinned Roman Reigns. Lesnar got a one-on-one title match with Rollins at Battleground and was dismantling him, as he was doing to pretty much everyone at that time, before ‘Taker got involved and cost Brock the title by attacking him and getting Rollins disqualified, setting up the match at SummerSlam.

It was hard to tell if The Undertaker was trying to play the heel role in this match but it played well regardless. He took a lot of punishment in the match, including multiple German suplexes and an F-5 through the announce table, plus more inside the ring for some great nearfalls. The Undertaker was able to get his own offense in throughout the match and after hitting The Last Ride, he locked Lesnar in the Hell’s Gate submission but The Beast countered it into the Kimura Lock and ‘Taker actually did tap out. However, it was only seen at the time by the timekeeper, who rang the bell. But the referee hadn’t seen it and called for the match to be restarted, at which point The Undertaker hit Lesnar with a low blow (complete heel move) and once again locked in Hell’s Gate. The ever-defiant Lesnar flipped the bird to his rival before passing out, giving The Undertaker his revenge. Sure, the finish was a little screwy but hey, at least Jon Stewart wasn’t involved.

The trilogy of matches would end with a dominating Hell in a Cell win for Lesnar at the pay-per-view of the same name a couple of months later.