SummerSlam (2003) (Part 3 of 3)

The 2003 SummerSlam was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the 16th annual SummerSlam, and took place on August 24, 2003, at the America West Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown! brand divisions. Seven professional wrestling matches were set on the event's supercard, a scheduling of multiple high-level matches. The first main event, which was for Raw, was an Elimination Chamber match in which Triple H defeated Chris Jericho, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Randy Orton, and Shawn Michaels to retain his World Heavyweight Champion title. In the other main event, which was for SmackDown!, Kurt Angle, the defending WWE Champion, defeated Brock Lesnar in a standard wrestling match. The undercard included a bout from Raw in which Kane defeated Rob Van Dam in a No Holds Barred match, and Eddie Guerrero retained SmackDown!'s United States Championship against Chris… Read by Darrenhusted. Recorded September 16, 2008; the article may have changed since. The article as it stood when recorded: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=234261844 Article today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SummerSlam_(2003) Original recording: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SummerSlam2003_56_260808.ogg License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). This episode is a format-shifted (MP3) copy redistributed under the same license. Chapter images come from the recorded article via Wikimedia Commons; each chapter links its file page for credits. This show is an independent community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.