SummerSlam (2002)

SummerSlam 2002
SummerSlam 2002
Promotion	World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)	RAW; SmackDown!
Date	August 25 2002
City	Uniondale, New York
Venue	Nassau Coliseum
Attendance	14,797
Pay-per-view chronology
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SummerSlam 2002 was the fifteenth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event from World Wrestling Entertainment. It took place on August 25 2002 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The official theme song was "Fight", composed by WWE music director Jim Johnston.

Results

Sunday Night HEAT match: Spike Dudley defeated Steven Richards (2:34)
- Spike pinned Richards.
Kurt Angle defeated Rey Mysterio (9:20)
- Angle forced Mysterio to submit with the Ankle Lock.
Ric Flair defeated Chris Jericho (10:30)
- Flair forced Jericho to submit with the Figure-Four Leglock.
- Controversy was made when Jericho had Flair earlier in his own figure four leglock. Flair first grabbed the bottom rope with one hand but then tapped out with the other. The referee let the match continue.
Edge defeated Eddie Guerrero (11:54)
- Edge pinned Guerrero after a Spear.
The Un-Americans (Lance Storm and Christian) defeated Booker T and Goldust to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship (9:37)
- Christian pinned Booker T after Test interfered and hit Booker with the big boot.
Rob Van Dam defeated Chris Benoit to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship (16:30)
- RVD pinned Benoit after a Five-Star Frog Splash.
- Rob Van Dam's victory brought the Intercontinental Championship back to RAW.

Shawn Michaels hits a plancha on Triple H through a table

The Undertaker defeated Test (8:18)
- Undertaker pinned Test after a Tombstone Piledriver.
Shawn Michaels defeated Triple H in an Unsanctioned Street Fight (27:19)
- Michaels pinned Triple H after reversing Triple H's Pedigree attempt into a jackknife roll-up.
- After the match, Triple H struck Shawn Michaels with his sledgehammer twice, forcing Michaels to be carried away on a stretcher.
Brock Lesnar (w/Paul Heyman) defeated The Rock to win the WWE Undisputed Championship (14:38)
- Lesnar pinned Rock after an F-5.

After winning the WWE Undisputed Championship, Brock Lesnar became the youngest WWE Champion in history. Two years later at SummerSlam 2004, Randy Orton became the youngest World Heavyweight Championship in history at the age of 24, beating Lesnar's feat by only a few months. To this day they remain the youngest title holders of their respective championships.
This was Shawn Michaels' first WWE match since WrestleMania XIV.
After the Pay Per View feed ended, The Rock was left in the ring by himself. As he rose to his feet, the Nassau Coliseum crowd booed him viciously. Despite this he went on to say, "whether you like it or not, The Rock is still the People's Champion." This would be his last Pay Per View appearance until WrestleMania XIX.