SummerSlam (2002)

SummerSlam 2002
SummerSlam 2002
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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 from the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

The official theme song for the event 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 held onto the rope with one hand but tapped out with the other. The referee let the match continue.

Shawn Michaels hits a plancha on Triple H through a table

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 World 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 WWE Intercontinental Championship back to RAW.
The Undertaker defeated Test (8:18)
- Undertaker pinned Test after a Tombstone Piledriver.
Shawn Michaels defeated Triple H in a Unsanctioned Match (27:19)
- Michaels pinned Triple H after reversing Triple H's Pedigree attempt into a cradle.
- 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(15:48)
- Lesnar pinned The Rock after a F-5.

This was the first SummerSlam event to be held after the introduction of the brand extension.
After winning the WWE Undisputed Championship, Brock Lesnar became WWE's youngest world champion. Two years later at SummerSlam 2004, Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit for the World Heavyweight Championship at the age of 24, beating Lesnar's feat at 25. Technically, Lesnar is still the youngest WWE Champion but not the youngest world champion in WWE history.
This was Shawn Michaels first WWE match since WrestleMania XIV.