SummerSlam (2002)

Event
SummerSlam (2002) was the fifteenth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was presented by Foot Locker. It took place on August 25, 2002, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. With this event, SummerSlam became the first pay-per-view to have events in the three major indoor venues in the New York metropolitan area. Madison Square Garden hosted the event in 1988, 1991, and 1998. The Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey hosted the event in 1989 and 1997.

The main match on the SmackDown! brand was for the WWE Global Championship between The Undertaker and Hollywood Hulk Hogan. The main match on the Raw brand featured an Unsanctioned Street Fight between the returning Shawn Michaels and Triple H, which Michaels won after pinning Triple H by reversing Triple H's Pedigree attempt into a jackknife roll-up and Edge versus Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship. There was also an interpromotional match for the Intercontinental Championship between Eddie Guerrero from Raw and Chris Benoit from SmackDown!, which Chris Benoit won by pinfall. The other matches on the undercard included the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Tajiri versus Koji Kanemoto.