Top 8 SummerSlam main events from this decade

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#7 Triple H vs Brock Lesnar (SummerSlam 2012)

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This match was historical in many ways. The first SummerSlam match for Brock in 9 years, the last SummerSlam main event for Triple H (well, as a competitor at least) and the last match Triple H had with his long hair.

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The build to this match was very good. Brock still had this mystique to him during this time as it was only around 4 months removed from his return to the company.

Brock hadn't faced Triple H before this as they were on different brands during the original brand split. They were actually very close to facing each other in 2002 before Brock took the WWE Title with him to SmackDown.

So here we were, 10 years later with the two flag bearers for Raw and SmackDown in 2002 and 2003.

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The match was different from a typical Lesnar match that you would see today, with Brock actually doing some moves other than spamming suplexes (this was a time when suplex city wasn't a thing).

Triple H tapping out as a babyface was surprising, but it really put over the Kimura as a lethal submission maneuver, and Brock as an unstoppable machine.

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