SummerSlam (2001)

**SummerSlam (2001)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was held on August 19, 2001 at Compaq Center in San Jose, California. It was the fourteenth SummerSlam event held by the WWF.

The main event saw The Rock defeat Booker T to win the WCW Championship. The Rock won the match by pinfall after he hit the Rock Bottom on Booker T. Another main match was between Steve Austin and Kurt Angle for the WWF Championship. Angle won the match by disqualification after Austin attacked referees. On the undercard, the main match was a steel cage match between the WCW Tag Team Champions Undertaker and Kane and the WWF Tag Team Champions Diamond Dallas Page and Kanyon. The Undertaker and Kane won the match by pinfall after Undertaker executed the Last Ride on Page.

## Matches

|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**#**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Matches**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Stipulations**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Times**|
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|1<sup>H</sup>|Lita, Jacqueline, and Molly Holly (WWF) defeated Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler, and Ivory (WCW)|Tag team match|2:55|||||
|2|Edge (WWF) defeated Lance Storm (c) (ECW)|Singles match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship|11:16|||||
|3|The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) and Test (ECW/WCW) defeated The Acolytes Protection Agency (Faarooq and Bradshaw) and Spike Dudley (WWF) (with Molly Holly)|Six-man tag team match|7:19|||||
|4|X-Pac (WWF) defeated Tajiri (WWF)|Title unification match for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship and the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship|7:33|||||
|5|Chris Jericho (WWF) defeated Rhyno (ECW) (with Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley) by submission|Singles match|12:34|||||
|6|Rob Van Dam (ECW) defeated Jeff Hardy (c) (WWF)|Ladder match for the WWF Hardcore Championship|16:33|||||
|7|The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane) (WWF) (with Sara) defeated Diamond Dallas Page and Chris Kanyon (WCW)|Steel cage match for the WCW World Tag Team Championship and the WWF Tag Team Championship|10:13|||||
|8|Kurt Angle (WWF) defeated Steve Austin (c) (WCW) by disqualification|Singles match for the WWF Championship|22:30|||||
|9|The Rock (WWF) defeated Booker T (c) (WCW) (with Shane McMahon)|Singles match for the WCW Championship|15:19|||||
|colspan="4" align=center|(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match H – indicates that the match was shown before the pay-per-view on _Sunday Night Heat_|||||||

## Other websites

- Official SummerSlam 2001 website

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: SummerSlam (2001)
- **tagline**: Finally.
- **theme**: "Bodies (Drowning Pool song), Bodies" by Drowning Pool
- **promotion**: WWE, World Wrestling Federation
- **sponsor**: Chef Boyardee
- **date**: August 19, 2001
- **venue**: SAP Center at San Jose, Compaq Center
- **city**: San Jose, California, San Jose, California
- **lastevent**: WWF Invasion, Invasion
- **nextevent**: Unforgiven (2001)
- **event**: SummerSlam
- **lastevent2**: SummerSlam (2000)
- **nextevent2**: SummerSlam (2002)