Well we've now entered the era of two-night shows for all of WWE's Big Four PPVs. SummerSlam 2025, probably Royal Rumble and Survivor Series 2026, and maybe even Money in the Bank will now be spread over two shows. Thus WrestleMania is no longer all that special.
SummerSlam 2025 was another mixed bag of an extravaganza. The first night was a bad overall show, the second night was pretty good up until the appallingly tone deaf ending. This company has no line it will not cross, no scandal it will not gladly sweep under the rug if it gets in the way of their bottom line. Between sex trafficking accessory Brock Lesnar being back on television and WWE just openly aligning itself with MAGA, I'm honestly not sure how much more WWE content I'll even watch going forward.
Night 1 as I said was a pretty bad show, with a whole bunch of mostly nothing matches and a dull as fuck main event that for some reason WWE's faithful have convinced themselves was some kind of Bret Hart-esque masterpiece. I don't seem to recall Bret ever needing to stall after every move to let his gassed opponent recover for a while. Certainly not in his good matches anyhow.
The show opened, 22 minutes in (that's TWENTY-TWO) with a solid tag match as Roman Reigns and Jey Uso took on Seth Rollins' buddies Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed. Things started out not so promisingly as after a few moments of action Jey called for his entrance music again just to get a stupid Yeet chant going. This company is a parody of pro wrestling. From there they had a pretty good match and Breakker looked really good as usual. Side note: Wade Barrett, who I find pretty insufferable on commentary, keeps claiming Bron can run up to 23 miles per hour. I'd buy that for a dollar. They of course had to squeeze in yet another Roman spear through the barricade (which now isn't even attached at one side so this spot looks even dumber now). The Brons did a Steiner doomsday bulldog spot which was cool. At the end of the match Roman shoved Jey out of the way of a Breakker spear, and Jey hit his big splash on Reed to win the match. This show would never get this good again. ***1/2