# What is the greatest WWE SummerSlam main event of all time?

> Three decades of August main events, and the ones people still rewatch are not always the ones with the biggest title on the line.

*By YPB Team · Published September 7, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-greatest-wwe-summerslam-main-event-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar (2013)** — score 1000/1000
   A no-disqualification brawl widely called the best match of Lesnar's second run.
2. **Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena (2014)** — score 791/1000
   Lesnar took the title in a one-sided sixteen-suplex main event that invented Suplex City.
3. **Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar (2018)** — score 565/1000
   Reigns finally took the Universal Championship after four attempts.
4. **John Cena vs. AJ Styles (2016)** — score 565/1000
   Not the main event, but the match everyone remembers from that card.
5. **Diesel vs. King Mabel (1995)** — score 565/1000
   Widely considered the weakest main event the show has ever had.
6. **Triple H vs. Chris Benoit vs. Shawn Michaels (2004)** — score 439/1000
   A three-way for the World Heavyweight Championship at the top of the card.
7. **Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker (1998)** — score 282/1000
   Austin defended the WWF Championship in the peak of the Attitude Era.
8. **Roman Reigns vs. The Usos (2022)** — score 282/1000
   The Bloodline main event that drew the biggest SummerSlam gate to that point.
9. **Edge vs. The Undertaker (2008)** — score 282/1000
   A Hell in a Cell match that ended with Edge going through the ring in flames.

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