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| SummerSlam '07 - Continental Airlines Arena - 8/26/07 |
I take it back. Every horrible thing I said about SummerSlam '06? Forget it all. That show was a paragon of wrestling awesomeness compared to this phoned-in fiasco. Holy lord, I can't believe this show made the air. Legit, looking back on the match lineup and how brutally half-assed everything was, this looks like a WCW PPV circa 2000. I'm pretty sure WWE was daring people NOT to buy this show.
Kane vs. Finlay? Crap.
Umaga vs. Carlito vs. Mr. Kennedy? Three-way Intercontinental crap.
Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero? Saw it the previous year and it wasn't that great then. Chavo was heatless and basically just jobbing to the stars in 2007. Two years later he'd be jobbing to Hornswaggle.
Divas Battle Royal? Nice-looking crap.
John Morrison vs. CM Punk - Okay match but it only went seven minutes and the company had no plans for Punk at all until Morrison got nailed for steroids two weeks later, and they finally put the ECW Title on Punk. But this match wasn't a tenth as good as that one.
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| Jeezus, JoMo is pretty. I mean I'm not gay, but he's BEAUTIFUL. |
Triple H vs. King Booker - Watch WrestleMania XIX to see what these two were capable of. Watch this match to see Triple H bury the shit out of a top-flight semi-main eventer. Seriously, this is basically an eight-minute squash.
The Great Khali vs. Batista - Get the fuck outta here. Khali was actually the World Champion at one point?? Khali can barely walk upright. What dipshit put the company's number-two championship on him? In case you were wondering, unwatchable crap.
John Cena vs. Randy Orton - Finally, one good match on this putrid card. John Cena was Mr. SummerSlam three years running, two of them as one half of the only good match. This was fine, but I had zero emotional stake in it. In 2007 I was really only watching WWE programming to see CM Punk (who got no push at all), and the occasional Shawn Michaels classic. At the time the company was frantically trying to convince everyone that Cena and Orton were two of the greatest of all time, so they completely oversold this match. It's a good main event, but not at all a standout, except on this absolute dud of a PPV.
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| This one stupid move was better than the entire rest of the card. |
2007 was another pretty awful year for WWE, when I was paying much more attention to TNA and especially Ring of Honor to get my wrestling fix (ROH circa 2007 was AMAZEBALLS). WWE was doing whatever they wanted, regardless if it worked or if it was what the fans wanted to see. They were attempting to create new stars, but pushing the wrong ones, and they were still stuck on the Attitude template. By year's end they had finally started to refocus and were at least putting on good solid PPV events. But SummerSlam '07 is one of the worst shows I've ever seen and is probably the worst SummerSlam in the event's history.
Best Match: John Cena vs. Randy Orton - Cena was in the best match of the night three years running.
Worst Match: Great Khali vs. Batista - Big Dave stunk up the joint two 'Slams in a row. This one wasn't really his fault though. Shawn Michaels couldn't make Khali look good.
What I'd Change: Ya know what, if this is your SummerSlam card, cancel the whole show. Just toss it all out. Christ!
Most Disappointing Match: John Morrison vs. CM Punk - These two got to show what they were capable of two weeks later on free TV, but on this show they got a scant seven minutes.
Most Pleasant Surprise: That the universe didn't collapse on itself under the gravity of this black hole of anti-entertainment.
Overall Rating: 1/10
Better than WrestleMania 23?: Ask me that again. I double-dog dare ya, motherfucker. Ask me one more goddamn time!
2006
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