SummerSlam Shines!

Last night’s SummerSlam event was the best WWE PPV of the year! It had everything you could ask for, great action and promos, an amazing set of matches, a controversial moment, the return of a star and a screwing of a Champ.

The night kicked off with a 6-Man tag match. John Morrison, Rey Mysterio and Kofi Kingston took on Alberto Del Rio, R-Truth and the Miz in a great opening contest which saw Rey pick up the 3 count.

This lead into a much better than usual Big Man match between the now Face Sheamus, who the crowd just loves, and the Angry Black Man Mark Henry.

The match was won by Mark as he slammed Sheamus through the barricade in great Pro Wrestling fashion, Mark was able to crawl his way back into the ring for the Ref to count out Sheamus.

We then moved into a stellar performance from Cee Lo Green as he performed both the SummerSlam theme song “Bright Lights, Bigger City.” And “Forget you.”

Music performances usually get a bad rep and Wrestling shows but Cee Lo bought it hard and performed brilliantly. Also they didn’t take up too much time it was perfectly placed.

After Cee Lo had left our screens we moved it another surprisingly good match between Kelly Kelly and Beth Phoenix. For a WWE Divas match this was actually a great performance from both Kelly and Beth. My support was on Beth (obviously), but Kelly ended up picking up the win by reversing the Glam Slam into a pin. I don’t see this being the end of this rivalry, expect to see more from Beth, Natalya, Eve and Kelly and let’s hope for more improvement in the Divas division.

We then had an appearance by Jimmy Heart back stage as he talks with R-Truth about conspiracy in a great promo.

This lead into NXT Season 1 stars Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett. Yet another brilliant match, Bryan and Wade didn’t pull any punches as the match looked as real as could possibly get, fists were flying and so were knees and feet, I’m amazed that someone didn’t lose a tooth.

Wade Barrett picked up the win but you can’t deny the fact that both of these guys are the future of Wrestling.

We then moved into main event number one, Christian vs. Orton. Before the match even started Christian bought out his “insurance policy”, a man he was going to have in his corner to help him retain his World Title, that man was Edge.

Edges music played, and the crowd blew the roof as Edge made his way to the ring. Edge wasn’t around for long though as he basically called Christian, “A whiney little Bitch” before leaving Christian to fend for himself.

Randy then emerged and we headed into my favourite match of the night. It was a no DQ match the way it should be. They fought in the ring, they fought out of the ring, and they fought in the crowd. What else did we see in the match? Kendo sticks, Tables, Trash Cans, Steel Chairs and Steel Steps not to mention that neither of them were pulling there punches. For a PG rated show this match pushed that limit as far as it could. The match was spectacular and entertaining but was rather dangerous as at a couple of times during the match it had looked that Randy may have been injured, regardless though the man pushed on through. I felt I was watching the attitude era again, just with a lot less blood and like I’ve said before Blood isn’t needed to make a match like this great.

Randy picked up the win by catching Christian as he comes off the turnbuckle into an RKO on the Steel Steps that were lying in the ring. Randy looked to have hit his head hard on the steps in the process but he got the 3 count that regained him the World Heavyweight Championship. I loved this match so much that I’m actually watching it again as I write this.

Now before I talk about main event number 2 I just want to let you know that Triple H’s wife Stephanie McMahon was back stage and throughout the night it looked that Trips and Steph may have been conspiring to have Cena win. That didn’t really be the case though as the match went forward without a hitch, (kinder like I predicted.)

Triple H did a fine job as your everyday WWE referee. You know a Ref is doing a good job when you forget he is even there and that was the case with Triple H. That was at least until both Punk and Cena were lying outside the ring close to a double count out. Trips didn’t want things to end that way so he threw each one of them back in the ring and got the match to keep going. The match was another brilliant one and was at the same level as Punk vs Cena at MitB. The ending though had its controversy. The GTS was nailed on Cena and Punk took the pin, Triple H counted the 3 count and not seeing that Cena’s foot was on the bottom rope gave Punk the win. Something that even a normal ref has done before. Cena had a small protest with Triple H but left Punk to celebrate.

Triple H held up Punks hand in victory but Punk kept his eyes on Triple up until he left the ring. What happened next though just left us all in shock.

Quietly through the crowd came the big man Kevin Nash, he clotheslined Punk then nailed a Jack Knife power bomb leaving Punk in the middle of the ring. Triple H was at the top of the ramp and he looked on in awe, he then walked back down to confront Nash but he was already on his way back through the crowd.

In the background Del Rio appeared, a Ref by his side and MitB briefcase in hand, that’s right not only has Punk been nailed by Nash but gets screwed by Del Rio as he pins Punk after a swift kick in seconds taking the WWE Championship.

Triple H looked to of just lost control and didn’t know what was going on, Punk gets attacked by Nash then screwed by Del Rio and Trips is standing there trying to make sense of it all.

This ending has left us all with questions, and I’m sure we will be watching Raw tonight to try and find the answers.

The prediction amongst my friends is that Kevin Nash is working for Del Rio and that he is playing a body guard role. I think that could be interesting but I actually think I’d prefer to have Nash as new singles competitor but I guess only time will tell.

I give SummerSlam a full 5 out 5 stars!

Matty.D signing off.