WWE.com
SummerSlam is often billed as “The Biggest Party of the Summer,” and Sunday night’s 27th installment was no exception. After a jaw-dropping PPV that saw three titles change hands, a shocking turn and a melee that 20 lumberjacks couldn’t contain, it’s safe to say that anyone who plunked down $9.99 got their money’s worth.
Fans saw the Intercontinental and Divas Championships trade hands in the first two matches, bringing the total number of title changes in SummerSlam’s 27-year history to more than 30. Then the PPV got to the main event and tacked one more massive title change onto the pile. Throughout SummerSlam’s history, some of these matches have been truly memorable affairs – the sight of the new champ hoisting the title high a visual that sticks with fans for years afterward.
These selections are not based solely (or even mainly) on match quality, but...
SummerSlam is often billed as “The Biggest Party of the Summer,” and Sunday night’s 27th installment was no exception. After a jaw-dropping PPV that saw three titles change hands, a shocking turn and a melee that 20 lumberjacks couldn’t contain, it’s safe to say that anyone who plunked down $9.99 got their money’s worth.
Fans saw the Intercontinental and Divas Championships trade hands in the first two matches, bringing the total number of title changes in SummerSlam’s 27-year history to more than 30. Then the PPV got to the main event and tacked one more massive title change onto the pile. Throughout SummerSlam’s history, some of these matches have been truly memorable affairs – the sight of the new champ hoisting the title high a visual that sticks with fans for years afterward.
These selections are not based solely (or even mainly) on match quality, but...
- 8/18/2014
- by Scott Carlson
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
Not as much lately, but for years, WWE would go through announcers like a hot knife through butter. With how much they value a “TV look,” they’ve tried out a lot of announcers that, for whatever reason, didn’t work out in the long term. A number of low-level announcers came and went, lasting anywhere from a few weeks to several months. One example I didn’t include in this list, since he made it on to a pay-per-view event (SummerSlam ’93), was prolific infomercial host Joe Fowler. Maybe it was longer, but it felt like he was gone within weeks, back to selling me wonderful doodads I can’t get in stores.
They also experimented with a number of existing wrestlers and managers as color commentators, interviewers, hosts of the “Event Center” segments, and so on. Just think of some of the higher profile experiments over the...
Not as much lately, but for years, WWE would go through announcers like a hot knife through butter. With how much they value a “TV look,” they’ve tried out a lot of announcers that, for whatever reason, didn’t work out in the long term. A number of low-level announcers came and went, lasting anywhere from a few weeks to several months. One example I didn’t include in this list, since he made it on to a pay-per-view event (SummerSlam ’93), was prolific infomercial host Joe Fowler. Maybe it was longer, but it felt like he was gone within weeks, back to selling me wonderful doodads I can’t get in stores.
They also experimented with a number of existing wrestlers and managers as color commentators, interviewers, hosts of the “Event Center” segments, and so on. Just think of some of the higher profile experiments over the...
- 8/15/2014
- by David Bixenspan
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
It’s been a tough time in WWE since WrestleMania 30 ended. It happens most years, but not all the time. If you remember last year they did a really good job of continuing some WrestleMania feuds while also creating new ones. It led to some of the best WWE shows of the year up until SummerSlam when things started to go down.
The problem in WWE right now is that the product feels stale. They don’t do anything that exciting anymore. You won’t see a guy riding into an arena on a zamboni to go after his boss the way Steve Austin did. That’s just not how WWE is now. It’s the same thing week after week with heavily scripted segments with dialogue that feels like it is sometimes written for a high school play.
Since there is no Stone Cold or Rock around...
It’s been a tough time in WWE since WrestleMania 30 ended. It happens most years, but not all the time. If you remember last year they did a really good job of continuing some WrestleMania feuds while also creating new ones. It led to some of the best WWE shows of the year up until SummerSlam when things started to go down.
The problem in WWE right now is that the product feels stale. They don’t do anything that exciting anymore. You won’t see a guy riding into an arena on a zamboni to go after his boss the way Steve Austin did. That’s just not how WWE is now. It’s the same thing week after week with heavily scripted segments with dialogue that feels like it is sometimes written for a high school play.
Since there is no Stone Cold or Rock around...
- 6/13/2014
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
WWE are banking on a major role in WWE 2K15 to kick-start Goldberg’s return, which would ultimately lead to a marquee match at WrestleMania 31.
F4WOnline reports that an announcement of Goldbergs’s involvement in the game could begin around SummerSlam time and it would be a similar path to what Ultimate Warrior took last year.
Warrior was a big part of the WWE 2K14 promotion, which led to him having a big presence in WrestleMania 30′s festivities. The video game serves as an exciting way to reintroduce a legend to the WWE audience, giving the character a sole focus of hype. Goldberg will not only benefit from the hype factor, he will also get a nice financial boost from being the face of 2K15 – he has always been about business and money, hence this deal will be very appealing to him.
Brian Alvarez reports that we...
WWE are banking on a major role in WWE 2K15 to kick-start Goldberg’s return, which would ultimately lead to a marquee match at WrestleMania 31.
F4WOnline reports that an announcement of Goldbergs’s involvement in the game could begin around SummerSlam time and it would be a similar path to what Ultimate Warrior took last year.
Warrior was a big part of the WWE 2K14 promotion, which led to him having a big presence in WrestleMania 30′s festivities. The video game serves as an exciting way to reintroduce a legend to the WWE audience, giving the character a sole focus of hype. Goldberg will not only benefit from the hype factor, he will also get a nice financial boost from being the face of 2K15 – he has always been about business and money, hence this deal will be very appealing to him.
Brian Alvarez reports that we...
- 5/4/2014
- by Grahame Herbert
- Obsessed with Film
Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none On a tour to promote the new WWE '12 video game last week, just before Survivor Series, we had a chance for a brief interview with the Cm Punk. Last night at Survivor Series 2011 Cm Punk captured his second WWE Championship, but before all that he talked dream feuds, disturbing fans and the division between sports entertainers and wrestlers in the WWE:
Paul: I have seen you wrestle for years, I used to travel up and down the East Coast to see you in Ring of Honor. So I'm a long-time fan.
Cm Punk: What did you see?
Paul: I saw the Raven feud years, so this was 2002-2003.
Cm Punk: *Whistles* That was 10 years ago.
Paul: The craziest thing I saw at the Roh show in Cambridge, Massachusetts was during an extreme rules match. It was something one of the fans did,...
Paul: I have seen you wrestle for years, I used to travel up and down the East Coast to see you in Ring of Honor. So I'm a long-time fan.
Cm Punk: What did you see?
Paul: I saw the Raven feud years, so this was 2002-2003.
Cm Punk: *Whistles* That was 10 years ago.
Paul: The craziest thing I saw at the Roh show in Cambridge, Massachusetts was during an extreme rules match. It was something one of the fans did,...
- 11/21/2011
- UGO TV
So, it’s official. Kevin Nash revealed tonight on WWE Raw that his fellow Kliq member and WWE COO Triple H set up the hit on Cm Punk at Summerslam, costing him the title. According to Big Daddy Cool, Triple H provided him with tickets to SummerSlam. Then, before the main event, The Game texted his friend asking him to “stick” the winner, no matter who it was. “When a friend asks me to do something, I do it… What I did last night Cm Punk was business.” – Nash However, Nash then said that Hhh would not own up to his “business” request. Cm Punk was not happy with Nash’s testimony and showed up in the ring. He then sarcastically told Nash that if Hhh told Nash to jump off a bridge, it would be good for business. Nash said that he could prove that Hhh called the hit...
- 8/16/2011
- by Terry Boyden
- BuzzFocus.com
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