Official SummerSlam 2016 Thread
 

The pre-show starts in about 30 minutes.

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WWE Universal Championship
Finn Bálor vs. Seth Rollins

WWE World Championship
Dean Ambrose © vs. Dolph Ziggler

Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton

WWE Women's Championship; Dana Brooke is barred from ringside
Sasha Banks © vs. Charlotte

John Cena vs. AJ Styles

WWE United States Championship
Rusev © vs. Roman Reigns

Enzo Amore and Big Cass vs. Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens

WWE Tag Team Championship
The New Day © vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson

WWE Intercontinental Championship
The Miz © vs. Apollo Crews

PRE-SHOW

Best of Seven Series - Match #1
Cesaro vs. Sheamus

PRE-SHOW

Sami Zayn and Neville vs. The Dudley Boyz

PRE-SHOW

Carmella, Becky Lynch and Naomi vs. Natalya, Alexa Bliss and TBD

PRE-SHOW

American Alpha, The Hype Bros and The Usos vs. Breezango, The Ascension and The Vaudevillains

Hope this doesn't end up being like WrestleMania 32 and boiling down to a 6 hour exercise in creating a 2 minute highlight package.

I think Ambrose vs Ziggler will be match of the year

Are there 4 matches on the preshow or 3

Kanefused

I thought three, but it's possible the women's tag team match (or another match) could get bumped to the pre-show.

Gotta make sure there's plenty of time for Goldberg to spear some fucks.

Supposedly there's gonna be 3 matches on the pre show, getting ready to be up till after 4am here, luckily due to working in a school I'm off work for another two weeks ����

2 hour pre show is way too long though, Wrestlemania is meant to be the showcase event so either they're trying to put Summerslam on a par with it or they want us to listen to Lita mess up more

2 hour preshow? the fuck does that mean? they just don't show it on tv?

There's a two hour pre show on the network with Lita sending everyone to sleep before the show starts

King: I think mixing up two black guys is a huge compliment.

LED ring posts.

https://twitter.com/BTuckerTorch/sta...64869553659904

Some of the stuff that King comes out slightly verges on the controversial sometimes

The only way Lita would send me to sleep is after a weekend of sexual intercourse.

I admit there's nothing wrong with her till she starts talking , she needs to come out with Essa Rios to do the talking for her

Vaudevillians with a downgraded intro

ugh hate the Usos

Either there's no one in the arena yet or Zack Ryder is getting no pop now he's with Mojo Rawley

Yeah well, Wait! What?

The arena is still fairly empty.

Doesn't stop the boos for the Usos, though.

Haha interrupt the match with a network advertisement, shows how important it is

Going to resub to the network for this. Want to see Seth win the title and Rusev is just mint. Very dumb Wyatt isn't on the ahow.

booker talking about history and best of 7 matches whoops

Oh hell ya, Crews is taking the belt today too.

Hey everybody. Enjoy the show. I am working and will not be able to watch.

This match is literally all over the place

Styles has to win tonight, right?

I honestly don't know what happens with him after tonight. Title feud with Ambrose/Ziggler?

With smackdown losing or on the verge of losing a few guys, maybe it's time to call up Samoa joe, feud him with AJ

Wyatt is going to beat the hell out of Ziggler after the match. AJ goes on to feud with Dean.

Renee looks like Debbie Harry tonight

Finally joining it. Couldn't justify spending 14 hours watching Summerslam today.

Cesaro looking like he's on the way to prom right now.

How tiny is she

Missed the first hour of the pre-show, any other match besides the Smackdown multi-man tag match occur?

Nope

Nice. Unique stage for Summerslam. Definitely helps it feel like a "big" show.

Nope, match was just 'ok'

:lol: Bubba mocking the Ole chant. He's soo good at trash talking in the ring.

Balor writing "Demon King" all over his body really pisses me off and I don't know why.

WWE's going to drive the whole "demon king" aspect of Balor to the ground really quickly. Feels way too forced right now and no room to let it develop naturally.

Just had a little heartburn flare up at "19 PPVs!"

The PS4 Network stream is nothing short of dreadful. Grainy video, bad audio, and freezes every few seconds. Yet on my PC it's fine.

Also I really hope they don't make Zayn and Neville a permanent tag team.

"The Prom King" Cesaro vs. "Rocksteady" Sheamus

I agree, they should of had him just tease the Demon entrance on Raw and saved it for Summerslam, hopefully coming up they leave it for the big stage.

Very surprised WWE hasn't been sued over Cesaro's entrance yet.

Best of seven series or 'we have no idea what we want to do with them both so we will keep them tied up for the next few months '

Oh and I'm hoping that one of the matches is a game of Battleships

I'm guessing they'll become a semi-regular tag team in the cruiserweight division.

Christ this is boring.

So Byron apparently forgot how numbers work when Cole mentioned what happened if this first match ends in a tie.

Somehow a "Best of 7" becomes a "Best of 2" according to him.

Something seemed weird .. i noticed tye ringside mat is gray..

I think that was the smoothest White Noise Sheamus has ever done.

OMG u guys wat if the match doesn't end b4 teh PPV starts???? Omgz

Damn. I think that is my second-favorite Brogue Kick counter.

That'd be cool. The PPV goes live with the match still going.

Cole mixing up names

2nd hour of Nitro flashbacks.


Fuck I'm old.

I've seen, I think, two or three episodes of Nitro.

On justin.tv, before it was shut down.

Jesus how many bloody official themes is there

my ps4 is working decent for a change

Here we go!

Interest in Brock is easy to understand tbh.

Every match he is in seems real, there is intensity. Would do well to replicate that in some other feuds.

Speaking of beating concepts into the ground the Outta nowhere thing stopped being fun a long time ago.
Its like Vince latches on to pop culture references in then labors under the delusion that these things last for years and years.


All I'm saying is get ready to have the Demon King force fed to you.

Just watched a great show from a local company (featuring Mark Andrews from TNA).

The highlight was when someone couldn't set a table up so the ref helped and then managed to break it.

If tonight can top that moment then it should be a good evening.

Hmm

How many times will Enzo almost die during this match?

That is some pop...these guys are big stars now, aren't they?

@sliksuke

Here's some Demon King for you.

http://i.imgur.com/dbGfrNm.jpg

lol @ singing

I'd be fine with that. :naughty:

demon gluteus king

Remember when Aiden English and Colin Cassidy had a singing contest?

It was... a surprisingly good segment.

Cass has a lovely voice

OOh you cheeky bastard ;)

how so?

Finn is a bit cheekier than me.

Its pretty neat they extended the video screen up the ringposts

Just call it JeriKO

The Demon King is being jammed down way too hard. That is why he will be a main eventer for the next ten years.

lol @ owens

Flying ants have wings.

NXT does a good job of letting things happen more organically IMO

:lol: Owens

because of the James Bond-esque entrance

oh, didn't know he had an entrance like that

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I don't think they can be sued for that @owenbrown

hm, other than the suit and that circle on the titatntron i don't see anything james bond about his entrance

Nice of Owens to help Cass with making sure Enzo didn't fall from the top rope. Not sure why Cass is angry since Enzo is safe now.

Jeri-KO's tag team finisher is the same as The Revival's.

nice win by Jeri-KO

The GOAT and donkey win!~

No Flips, Just Chinlocks

Seriously the best thing about JeriKO is how insincere they are about each other

Lol Foley eating the cereal

Oh Jon

This now = disappointment

Women's title match this early?