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Heading into SummerSlam, one of the biggest controversies Paul “Triple H” Levesque faced was actually regarding the composition of the card and how few female matches were on the card. After months of anticipation and build, Trish Stratus and Becky Lynch spent their SummerSlams on vacation, while Rhea Ripely’s only appearance came as the backup […]

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before; WWE built up a seemingly can’t-miss babyface with all of the momentum behind him who would definitely be the performer that unseated Roman Reigns as the “Head of the Table.” On paper, they had everything, right? Momentum, a personal history with the former “Big Dog,” key wins […]

For about five seconds, Bianca Belair was on top of the world. After having her knee worked over for the better part of a 20-minute slobberknocker, with medical at one point attempting to walk her back to the locker room, Belair was able to overcome Asuka and Charlotte Flair – bringing the latter’s record to […]

Though the match between Seth Rollins and Finn Balor technically began when the bell rang, as wrestling matches tend to do, the match didn’t really begin until much later, when Señor Money in the Bank, Damian Priest, made his way down to ringside with his green and gold briefcase in-hand. Sure, Balor could have secured […]

With just 33 days left before Gunther officially eclipses the Honkey Tonk Man as the longest-reigning Intercontinental Champion in WWE history, it always felt like a longshot that Drew McIntyre would secure the win at SummerSlam. Sure, the show marked the first official year since Paul “Triple H” Levesque was in charge of the WWE […]

As crazy as it may sound, Shayna Baszler has never won a singles match on a main roster WWE Premium Live Event. Sure, she’s secured plenty as a member of the NXT roster during his championship reign, and she’s won bouts as members of multiple different tag teams, but after spending over half a decade […]

After being confusingly added to the SummerSlam card with nothing at stake but improved momentum, WWE decided to send the woman’s division into a bit of a tizzy in favor of adding 25 male Superstars to the “biggest party of the summer” in a match sponsored by “Macho Man” Randy Savages’ favorite snack, Slim Jim. […]

When Cody Rhodes marched down to the SummerSlam ring to the anthemic notes of his theme song, “Kingdom,” it was all smiles from the “American Nightmare.” Though he didn’t exactly tell the kids shaking his hands that they should say their prayers and eat their vitamins, Rhodes was in full-on red, white, and blue babyface […]

For all of his flaws, Logan Paul is a darn good athlete. After starting his match against Ricochet with a single slap by the “One and Only,” the two high flyers worked the sort of fast-paced, hype-choreographed matches that a certain type of WWE fan will make fun of promotions like AEW and PWG for […]

With SummerSlam officially upon us, performers on the show and off of it have been using the opportunity to talk themselves up and trash talk performers – and in Trish Stratus’ case, Adm Pearce – in a classic case of posturing. It makes sense, right? If a performer like Gunther can get in Drew McIntyre‘s […]

In professional wrestling, some Superstars rise above the rest. Some Superstars have what it takes to get themselves over without a push, some Superstars can connect with an audience without having their storyline shoved down the audience’s throat, and some can do it all without a championship belt around their waist, a classic sign that […]

In case you haven’t heard, there’s been a good bit of drama surrounding the matches booked – and not booked – for SummerSlam, and no, it’s not that Grayson Waller will be in the Slim Jim Battle Royal instead of getting an automatic match against Austin Theory, who is somehow seven years older than the […]

SummerSlam has always been favored as the WWE’s second biggest annual event. It’s the last — and biggest — party of the summer, where the company attempts to throw in their biggest and best matches following WrestleMania months prior. In its 35-year history, there’s undoubtedly been a showcasing of tremendous bouts that have taken place. […]

After weeks and weeks of anticpation, WWE’s SummerSlam is finally here. Soon fans will find out who will be able too call themselves the “Tribal Chief” who will hold the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and who will be the champion of Slim Jim and earn a shot at Austin Theory’s United States Championship. And the […]

When Dave Meltzer reported that WWE was planning a “huge stipulation” for the SummerSlam rubber match between Cody Rhodes and Brock Lesnar, fans were hyped to see what Paul “Triple H” Levesque had in store for the “Grandson of a Plummer” and the “Beast Incarnate” in the Motor City. Well, with the final SmackDown before […]

After weeks of anticipation and a groundswell of support that has grown to a staggering level rarely seen in the WWE Universe, LA Knight is walking into SummerSlam with all of the momentum in the world, especially after securing a win over Sheamus in the opening match of the go-home edition of SmackDown. But before […]

For the eighth time in his professional wrestling career, CM Punk will be wrestling a match of note on SummerSlam weekend. The biggest difference? When Punk steps into the ring against Ricky Starks with the “true” World Championship on the line, it will be as a member of AEW, not WWE. Now, as fans most […]

After watching wrestling fans take London by storm for the 14th running of Money in the Bank, the WWE Universe will soon descent on the Motor City, Detroit, Michigan, for SummerSlam to see who will come out on top of the biggest show of the summer and who will have to return to the proverbial […]

When Ricochet and Logan Paul take the ring in the opening match of SummerSlam this Saturday in Detroit, it will be a classic example of the haves versus the have-nots. Initially signing with the promotion back in 2018 after having spent 13 years working on his craft on the indies, when Ricochet made his debut […]

In the long 35 year history of the WWE’s famed summer spectacle, there’s a lot that stands out. With the 2023 SummerSlam taking place, we now have the daunting task of ranking the 10 best rewatchable shows in the event’s history. It won’t just be about the match cards — even though those play a […]

With their match against Jey Uso rapidly approaching the Motor City for SummerSlam, Roman Reigns and his “Wise Man,” Paul Heyman, stopped by ESPN’s First Take to talk turkey with noted WWE superfan Stephen A. Smith. When asked about what makes him such a good manager in a section of the 10:52 video dubbed “Stephen […]

When the new NXT Tag Team Champions, Tony D’Angelo and Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo, needed a third for a trios match against their The Great American Bash opponents Gallus, the “Don of NXT” went through his Rolodex and called up a person from his past few ever expected to see on NXT television ever again: Santos […]

After over a year on the main roster, LA Knight is finally starting to pick up steam, with the “Megastar” set to wrestle on his third-ever WWE Premium Live Event following his promising, if not ultimately disappointing, effort in the Money in the Bank Men’s Ladder match and a disastrous debut in the Mountain Dew […]

When Trish Stratus made her surprise return on February 27th, 2023, to help her long-time friend Lita and new-time friend Becky Lynch solve their Damage CTRL problems, it felt like it was only a matter of time before the WWE Hall of Famer would eventually turn on her babyface pals and go into business for […]

After watching Logan Paul talk up the crowd in his final RAW appearance before SummerSlam, Ricochet made his way to the ring like a galavanting hero to inform the “Maverick” just how he feels heading into the biggest show of the summer. “Wait, wait, wait, wait Logan, what’s going on, man?” Ricochet asked as the […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation featuring matches on RAW, beatdowns in NXT, and a successful title defense at Money in the Bank, Seth Rollins will finally get his third and potentially final singles match of the year against Finn Balor at SummerSlam in Detroit, Michigan on August 5th. Soon fans will see if the […]

How do you make Shayna Baszler, a borderline career heel who repeatedly discusses her enjoyment of inflicting pain and punishment on other performers via her expansive collection of submission maneuvers, a babyface? Do you give her a superhero gimmick like Nikki ASH? Have her take sympathy one an underdog and form a new tag team? […]

Who runs the game in the WWE Universe? Well, if you ask the man born Shaun Ricker, he’ll tell you it’s none other than LA Knight, the character he’s been playing since making the leap to the WWE main roster, but does he? Does he really? While fans would desperately like for that to be […]

When Bianca Belair found herself booked for a tag team match with Charlotte Flair on SmackDown, it put the “EST of WWE” in a precarious situation. On one hand, Belair has been dying to recapture her RAW Women’s Championship – now the WWE Women’s Championship – since she lost the title to Asuka at Night […]

Though it may not often seem like it, Drew McIntyre actually has a great deal of respect for Gunther. Two members of the Intercontinental Championship fraternity, a group that features 184 different title reigns since the belt was introduced in 1979, including three by the strap’s lone female holder, Chyna, Gunther has helped to elevate […]

After challenging his uncle Roman Reigns to “Tribal Combat” at SummerSlam, Jey Uso was eager to address the WWE Universe in the opening segment of SmackDown. Soon, fans in New Orleans would know exactly what Uso had planned for the fans in Detroit, he’d explain why winning the match means so much to him, and […]

When every other match is in the books at SummerSlam, fans from Booker T to you and me will be afforded a chance to see something they’ve wanted to see since all the way back in 2021, the rubber match between Jey Uso and Roman Reigns, this time held under Tribal Combat rules, in the […]

After foreshadowing a future one-on-one match dating all the way back to the 2023 Royal Rumble, Logan Paul finally accepted Ricochet‘s call for a match at SummerSlam, and the duo will be facing off in Detroit as a result, likely in the opening match of the show because his brother Jake has a boxing bout […]

After watching from the sidelines as about a third of the RAW roster got injured one way or another by the hands of The Judgment Day, Seth Rollins was finally afforded a chance to sit face-to-face with Finn Balor to make their match at Summer Slam official once and for all a meeting made all […]

After taking an absolute beating at the hands of Brock Lesnar on the previous edition of RAW, Cody Rhodes decided to address the WWE Universe once more, this time knowing that the “Beast Incarnate” won’t be charging the ring to make another meme at his expense. With his match at the biggest show of the […]

After making it abundantly clear that he wanted to address Logan Paul in the middle of the ring in Tampa Bay on the previous edition of RAW and all week since, Ricochet curiously found himself alone during his allotted time in the Amalie Arena, despite calling out the “Maverick” repeatedly to start the segment. “Logan, […]

After securing a win in an incredibly lopsided match against arguably the most talented female performer on the entire WWE roster, IYO SKY, Charlotte Flair was riding high, even if she lost both of her eyelashes in the match thanks to a sneak attack by Asuka. Discussing the match alongside Cathy Kelley, Flair noted that […]

After a week of anticipation, fans in the WWE Universe finally got to see Roman Reigns and “Main Event” Jey Uso back in the ring once more to set out the conditions for the third match of their current career, a Tribal Rules match at SummerSlam… but not before the “Tribal Chief” got a little […]

With just a little over two weeks away from WWE’s annual SummerSlam event, the show is shaping up nicely, although a couple surprises wouldn’t hurt. John Cena and The Rock would be nice additions to what WWE has often labeled the biggest party of the summer with a sudden open schedule. Writers/Actors strike opens opportunity […]