11 Best WWE Title Changes At SummerSlam 10

10. World Heavyweight Championship (2009): CM Punk vs. Jeff Hardy (c)

At this point in his career, CM Punk already was a two-time World Heavyweight Champion, having cashed in his MONEY in the Bank briefcase successfully twice. The second time, he defeated a spent Jeff Hardy, who had just bested Edge in a ladder match to capture his first world title. Hardy would reclaim the title about seven weeks later, setting up the rubber match at SummerSlam.
This time, Punk won his third world championship in a hard-fought battle, erasing any stigma that he was an accidental champion. His celebration would be short-lived, however. While standing over a fallen Jeff Hardy, Undertaker’s gong rang out and the lights went out. When they came back on, Taker had taken Hardy’s place under Punk’s feet. After a chokeslam to close out the PPV, it became obvious where Punk’s reign was headed next.





The SummerSlam victory should have launched Punk into the stratosphere as a main-event player, but instead his title was sacrificed to the Undertaker less than two months later. Punk would go on to head up the Straight Edge Society into 2010 before finally re-reaching the summit in 2011.

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