For so long, the Undertaker was a starring attraction atWrestleManiadue to his lengthy winning streak.
But what is the Undertaker without his mythological plot armor?
Sure, hes a top tier threat, but hasSummerSlamgiven him the same unstoppable mystique?
Well…no, not really.SummerSlamhonestly hasnt been all too good for Undertaker all in all.
Undertaker started with the WWF in the end of 1990 and he almost immediately became the companys top heel.
They were absolutely dead serious about treating him as a big deal.
So what did he do atSummerSlam 91?
The companys three top heels Jake Roberts, Ric Flair, and Undertaker were nowhere in sight.
At the PPV itself, the Undertaker didnt show.
So that was UndertakersSummerSlamdebut.
And man, early 90s Undertakers offense wasreaaallllylimited.
Luckily, the match ended after a few minutes thanks to a disqualification.
Kamala started repeatedly crushing Undertaker with various splash attacks, each from higher up.
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SummerSlam 1993was aWrestleManiarematch…of Undertakers worst match ever.
right before the opening bell.
He finally ended their rivalry with a clothesline off the top rope.
The streak of bad matches continued in 1994 with the infamous Undertaker vs. Undertaker match.
It was really a lookalike with similar abilities who was powered by money instead of Paul Bearers urn.
The entire thing was ridiculous and involved Leslie Nielsen and Dominos Pizza getting involved.
The real Undertaker, debuting his purple trim attire, appeared to have a match against his evil doppelganger.
After a boring battle, the good Undertaker won and placed the fake into a casket.
UndertakersSummerSlamopponents didnt get much better.
I cant fault the man for style.
SummerSlam 1996brought the end of the streak.
Not only in the sense that we got a decent enough Undertaker match, but also that he lost.
Better luck next year, I suppose.
AtWrestleMania 13, Undertaker won the WWF Championship from Sycho Sid.
He would defend the belt against US-hating Bret Hart atSummerSlam 1997with Brets eternal rival Shawn Michaels as the referee.
Being a Bret Hart match, it was easily Undertakers best match so far.
Not just in terms ofSummerSlam, but his 7 years in the company.
Unfortunately for Undertaker, he lost his title thanks to Brets trickery.
Behind Michaels back, Bret hit Undertaker with a chair.
Losing his temper, Michaels swung the chair at Bret, missed, and smashed it into Undertakers skull.
Bret made the cover and Michaels made the most reluctant 3-count youve ever seen.
Coincidentally, that spot was really important to the history of the company.
BySummerSlam1998, Steve Austin was champ and Undertaker was named his opponent as the companys biggest money match.
Austin simply got the better of him and laid him out with a Stunner.
Thats three losses in a row for those keeping score.
The good news is that he won in 1999.
The bad news is that it was a lame match.
It was Undertaker teaming up with Big Show to face Kane and X-Pac.
By now, Undertaker had left and returned as a biker who no longer had special powers.
It ended in a no-contest as Undertaker kept tearing at Kanes mask.
With Kane maskless and distracted, Undertaker kept attacking him as they made their way to the back.
Good job by the camera guys for somehow never giving us a clear shot of Kanes face, though.
Im not being sarcastic, thats some skill in there.
AtSummerSlam 2002, Undertaker stopped doing Kane-related matches and instead slummed it in the midcard by taking on Test.
Despite getting a little botchy, Undertaker won via a Last Ride.
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Undertakers 2003 wasnt too different.
Of all of UndertakersSummerSlammatches, it was probably the most forgettable.
Undertaker won, natch, but then it devolved into a Stephanie McMahon/Sable catfight.
Undertaker finally returned to the title picture in 2004 against WWE Champion JBL.
It was a very good match outside of the bullshit ending.
Hed lose yet again atSummerSlam 2005in aWrestleManiarematch with Legend Killer Randy Orton.
Towards the end of a competitive match between the two, Undertaker had it won.
Then a fan ran to the ring to distract him and Undertaker fell prey to an RKO.
In 2006, Undertaker fought, well…nobody.
He challenged Khali to a Last Man Standing match and it was done onSmackDowninstead.
No idea why they would cut such a big deal from such a big show, but that happened.
Undertaker missed out onSummerSlam 2007too, but that was because he was injured.
This would feed into a lengthy feud between the two that would finally reach its climax atSummerSlam 2008.
Throughout the list, there have been nothing but matches that arent worthy of a talent like the Undertaker.
He lost a bunch of matches.
He was in a lot of outright terrible matches.
He was dropped down on the card, far below where he deserved to be.
But atSummerSlam 2008we finally got an Undertaker match that feltright.
Undertaker took on Edge in the main event in Hell in a Cell.
That would be the Undertakers finalSummerSlammatch for a long time, but he did make a few surprise appearances.
He popped in at the very end ofSummerSlam 2009.
Having returned from a near-death coma, Undertaker appeared sickly and confronted the man behind it all, Kane.
Undertaker was too weak and ended up being destroyed by his brother.
In his absence, there was a new face of fear and dominance.
Brock Lesnar returned to WWE and made Triple H tap out in the main event ofSummerSlam 2012.
A year later, he defeated CM Punk.
A year afterthat, he suplexed John Cena into mush and won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Brock Lesnar has been at fiveSummerSlamsso far and only lostonce.
He arguably has the same sense of mythological edge that Undertaker once had atWrestleMania.
He laid into this for so long that Undertaker finally did something about it.
Namely, he teleported into the ring and kicked Brock in the junk.
That set the stage for the main event ofSummerSlam 2015.
On the other hand, it ended in such a dumb way that it hurt the show.
The timekeeper did see it, so he rang the bell.
Brock flipped him off and passed out.
And so, the Undertakers finalSummerSlamended with people scratching their heads in confusion.
At least he came out of it a winner.
Gavin Jasper writes forDen of Geekand will never get tired of talking about Undertaker vs. Undertaker.
