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SummerSlam is affectionately known as "The Biggest Party of the Summer" by the WWE Universe and even though Survivor Series is the pay-per-view that holds some of the greatest WWE debuts of all time, there are also a few that have happened at SummerSlam over the years.
The biggest event of the Summer is still seen as one of WWE's 'big four' even though it hasn't gained the best feedback recently as Brock Lesnar has main evented every show since 2014 and his match with Randy Orton back in 2016 didn't garner the response that WWE's creative team expected.
Despite this, SummerSlam still remains one of the biggest events of the year and even though there are no debuts lined up ahead of next month's show, here are some of the best in-ring debuts in SummerSlam history.
#3 Stephen Amell (SummerSlam 2015)
Stephen Amell is perhaps best known as Oliver Queen (The Green Arrow) in CW superhero series Arrow, but after he and former WWE superstar Stardust got into an altercation whilst he was in the crowd at Monday Night Raw, Amell reacted by jumping the barricade and attacking Stardust. It was later decided that Amell would team up with Neville to take on the team of King Barrett and his nemesis Stardust at SummerSlam.
At the event, Amell dressed as Arrow managed to throw out some moves that showed that he had definitely been training behind the scenes and helped his team to victory. It was reported that the feeling backstage was that many stars were impressed with his performance and he was later awarded a Slammy for "Celebrity Moment of the Year" for the dive he executed on Stardust from the top rope as part of the match.
#2 Darren Young (SummerSlam 2010)
Darren Young is a former Tag Team Champion along with Titus O'Neil, but when he first made his debut in WWE, he was part of The Nexus. The Nexus stepped straight into a feud with John Cena and even though there was a 6-on-1 handicap match between The Nexus and Cena the following week, Young didn't participate in the match because he was attacked by the former World Champion and was selling his injuries.
This means that Darren Young's first main roster WWE match actually came at SummerSlam in 2010 when he was the first person eliminated from the seven-on-seven elimination match between Team Cena and The Nexus since he submitted to Daniel Bryan in less than a minute.
#1 Bray Wyatt (SummerSlam 2013)
The Wyatt Family were one of the most dominant forces in WWE for a number of years, but the trio originally made their debut in the summer of 2013, attacking a number of different superstars including 3MB, Justin Gabriel, and R-Truth until Kane stepped in and challenged Bray Wyatt to a Ring of Fire match.
This was Wyatt's first WWE match and somehow he managed to defeat Kane before Luke Harper and Erick Rowan then attacked The Big Red Machine following the match. Wyatt had been part of WWE's main roster before as Husky Harris in The Nexus, but this was Bray Wyatt's in-ring debut and it was a fantastic advert for what was to come for The Wyatt Family in the coming years.
Which in-ring debut at SummerSlam impressed you the most? Tell us in the comments below!
