SUMMERSLAM REVIEW
MVP vs. Jeff Hardy
--Well, I'd love to comment on this match, but for some reason, Firefox was screwing up for me and the stream I had decided to cut out. So I got to see Hardy land on his head once and then HEAR that MVP had won. Can't comment on it.
Winners Take All: Kofi Kingston & Mickie James vs. Santino Marella & Beth Phoenix
--I didn't really like this match. It was too much of the same old, same old. I don't really like how they lost the titles, either, as it was an ending to the match that we've seen over and over again. Plus, I'm hoping that Santino loses the title tomorrow night, as Kofi will look really bad if he keeps losing to Santino, who loses to EVERYBODY, and even got his ass handed to him by Mickie today. You mean to tell me Kofi couldn't take Mickie? If you want me to believe that, then why push the kid? I also hope that this doesn't mean we'll be seeing Beth vs Candice, as I don't want Candice as champ and Beth as champ was boring to me. Whenever there is a "monster" as a champ, women's division or not, I just start falling asleep, as every match is just a squash practically.
Shawn Michaels Announcement
--Would've been a lot better if Michaels would've flipped out, went for a chair, and beat the crap out of Jericho after the punch. They could've worked on this better. It was just a longer version of a Raw promo segment. No need to be on the ppv. I'd have rather seen a Kendrick match or something, despite how HBK is my favorite wrestler.
ECW Championship: Mark Henry vs. Matt Hardy
--What the fuck? On a PPV? I'd be really pissed off if I paid to see this. That's a piss poor match for even an ECW main event, let alone what is supposed to be one of the "big four" ppvs. I didn't think the match would be good, so I'm not that upset about not getting a 20 minute crapfest, but it annoys me that there are probably a lot of people out there that actually DID want to see it, and they were TOTALLY ripped off. On top of that, they just destroyed all of Mark Henry's credibility as a champion when he was actually starting to do rather well. He couldn't beat Dreamer on his own, and he loses to someone who can't maintain a midcard title reign in less than 2 minutes. Ridiculous. Since I'm writing this review as the matches go on, I'm really hoping that this trend doesn't continue, cause so far, with Beth/Santino screwing up Kofi/Mickie's popular title reigns, a substandard HBK segment, and this abortion of a "match", Summerslam is terrible.
WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT Championship: CM Punk vs. JBL
--Match sucked, just like I thought. This would've been a bad enough Raw match that I'd have skipped over it. These idiots even clunked heads. The whole purpose of it, as we've all predicted, was to simply have Punk get a clean win over someone. And immediately, like I said, "Punk has silenced the critics". Having Punk booked to win over an out of shape horrible wrestler that has no business being in the main event...yeah...really going to get behind him now, right? No, I still don't care. God I hope they put the title on Jericho soon...
Why do we have to watch video packages before the matches when we've seen the video packages 3 times a week for multiple weeks, on top of the segments themselves? I hate that crap. Take this HHH/Khali promo off the screen and add that time to the Hell in a Cell match.
WWE Championship: HHH vs. Khali
--While watching this, I was hoping that I'd have to take a piss so that I'd have an excuse to stop watching it. Sadly, I had to sit through the whole thing. I know some people are saying "its Khali's job to just be strong and slow, he's a monster, he's not a high-flyer" and I completely understand it. But just because that's his job doesn't mean its entertaining to me. There are plenty of people that have used the strength scenario in a much more entertaining fashion. Khali is terrible to me and I've never enjoyed a single match of his. HHH is a stagnant type of wrestler. He's comfortable doing the same thing over and over again, but I'm not comfortable watching it over and over again. Thusly, he's bland to me, and the only thing that makes his matches entertaining is the person he's up against. You put him up against someone that I never like watching and you result in a match that bores me. There are only two things I was glad about in regards to this match. 1) It wasn't a total squash to make HHH look like he's invulnerable. 2) It didn't go on any longer. I'm sure some fans were excited about it and thought it was a great match, but I sure as hell didn't.
John Cena vs. Batista
--I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong and I have no qualms about doing it. Luckily, I don't have to with this match. It was "decent, but nowhere near anything great" like what I thought. If you eliminated the close-call pinfalls, the match would be 10x worse, as that was really the only set of circumstances that made this interesting. I really hope that we don't have to sit through the same thing 2 more times...and I really hope that they don't make one of them for WrestleMania. I do NOT want one of these two taking up another Royal Rumble win and wasting a main event at WM25.
Hell in a Cell: Undertaker vs. Edge
--People are going to bitch about me saying this...but I was a little disappointed. Maybe its because the entire ppv was resting on the shoulders of this, and every single match before it was putting more and more pressure on it? Maybe it was because it lacked that ONE spot that would put it on par with Foley's jumps? Maybe it was because it took too long to start, with Edge bringing everything out and taking 3 minutes or so with nothing but "chairshot to Taker, Edge sets something up, chairshot to Taker, Edge sets something up, chairshot to Taker"....I don't know. But whatever it is, I just don't think this was as good as it could've been. Now don't get me wrong!! Hold on a sec before you say it! I'm in no way saying that this match was BAD. I actually really, really enjoyed it. It just didn't match my expectations for it. You can say that its my fault for getting my hopes up, but its also the WWE's, as we're supposed to be this excited about the matches, right? And they were doing such a good job at building it up that I couldn't help but hope that it would be a match for the ages. But alas, it was merely "match of the night by far, very entertaining". Was this match alone worthy of paying for the PPV? I don't think so. And the rest of the matches didn't add anything to it. I don't know really what to say more. I liked it, it was definitely the best match out of the card, but I won't remember anything particular about it in the next few years. Hopefully, they continue to use Edge as a top guy after this, cause he's been proving himself more than worthy of it.
Summerslam was a letdown. I'm very glad I didn't spend a dime on it, and I feel sorry for those that did, especially if they were fans that wanted to see Henry/Hardy and were so massively cheated out of it. Shame. I'm really worried that the consequences of this ppv will spell out some very boring things in the next few months, including "Hardy challenges for Hardy's title again, we wait a whole month for it to happen, then he wins the title and has subpar matches until they realize that Hardy just isn't good enough for the main event", "Batista vs Cena again with Cena winning, and then another rematch at WrestleMania after one of them wins the Royal Rumble and they settle who gets the rubber-win", "Santino keeps the title and makes Kofi look bad by not being able to beat him", "Beth dominates against Kelly and Mickie, then feuds and drops the title to Candice, pushing Mickie as their #2 face despite being more talented", etc.