Ranking the 8 greatest SummerSlam main events of all time

#6 Braun Strowman vs Samoa Joe vs Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar (2017)

Strowman vs Joe vs Reigns vs Lesnar

Last summer, the main event scene of Raw's male division was heavily occupied by some of the most dominant dudes in the WWE. Brock Lesnar was the Universal Champion, he still is (Sigh!). He made his first title defense at July's Great Balls of Fire pay-per-view (RIP) against a very game Samoa Joe, in a match where he merely escaped from the Samoan Submission Machine. Meanwhile, Braun Strowman and Roman Reigns were trying to kill each other every week.

It culminated in an Ambulance Match which was won by Strowman, who outsmarted Reigns and got brutally assaulted for it. The Big Dog crashed the Ambulance, with Strowman inside, to a truck backstage in what was clearly an attempted murder (in reel sense). Strowman survived (Why wouldn't he, he's a monster) and entered the already crowded Universal title scene. The stage was set at SummerSlam for a slugfest between the four baddest men on the roster.

Lesnar was taken out of the match but returned to cause some more pain. He ended up retaining his title, much to the disappointment of the fans in Brooklyn and elsewhere. But the match was so good, that the result did not matter. We saw four monsters cause a hell of a lot of carnage in New York City. The action was brutal, intense and pulsating. We saw chairs being flown, barricades being broken and tables being destroyed.

Braun Strowman was the star of the show as he went on a mid-match tear and put the Universal champion through two announcers' tables, dumping the third one onto him. Meanwhile, Samoa Joe and Roman Reigns also put in good shifts.

WWE could always redeem the big red belt from its current irrelevance by having similar matches to this all-out slugfest. All three challengers in this match would have separate matches against Lesnar for the Universal Championship, but none of them was anywhere as good as this combined effort.