Count outs, Roll ups, Tournaments In the main event, Junkyard Dog defeated Randy Savage in the finals of a 16-man tournament. On the undercard WWF World Heavyweight Championship Hulk Hogan defeated "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. The event also included a fan competition for a Rolls-Royce. World Tag Team Champions The Dream Team (Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine) did not appear on the card. Tag team wrestlers The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff and The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and the Dynamite Kid) wrestled as single competitors in the tournament.

This isn’t the War to Settle the Score, or the Brawl to End it All, this is the very first Wrestlemania from Madison Square Garden!

The game returns, Maven dies and Perfect performs

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Lingerie, Ladders, Lionsaults The main event was a Triple Threat No Disqualification match—a match involving three competitors against each other and it would be decided only through pinfall or submission. The match was contested for the WWF Championship. Stone Cold Steve Austin defended the title against Kurt Angle and Rob Van Dam. Austin pinned RVD after a Stone Cold Stunner to retain the title.

The undercard featured The Rock versus Chris Jericho for the WCW Championship, The Undertaker versus Booker T, Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) versus Big Show and Tajiri for the WWF Tag Team Championship, Christian versus Edge in a Ladder match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, Torrie Wilson versus Stacy Keibler in a Lingerie match, Test versus Kane and Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) versus Lance Storm and The Hurricane for the WCW Tag Team Championship.

Kronik, Austin, Patriotism The main event was a standard wrestling match for the WWF Championship. Alliance representative Stone Cold Steve Austin defended the title against WWF representative Kurt Angle. Angle defeated Austin to win the title by forcing him to submit to the Ankle Lock. Other prominent matches were The Rock versus Booker T and Shane McMahon in a Handicap match for the WCW Championship, and Rob Van Dam versus Chris Jericho for the WWF Hardcore Championship.

The undercard featured Tajiri versus Rhino for the WCW United States Championship, Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane) versus KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark) for the WCW Tag Team Championship, Edge versus Christian for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, Perry Saturn versus Raven and Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) versus Big Show and Spike Dudley, Lance Storm and The Hurricane and Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match for the WWF Tag Team Championship.

Honestly not a lot of build but was the storytelling there?

SummerSlam was the fourteenth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on August 19, 2001, at the Compaq Center at San Jose in San Jose, California. It was the last SummerSlam promoted under the WWF name, as the promotion was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in May 2002.

With both sides and lines drawn...who will come out the victor in the first battle of the WWF/ALLIANCE Invasion?!?

How many times does Shane have to get his ass beat for VKM to love him?

Quite possibly one of the best 2001 PPV’s we’ve covered