SummerSlam Archives

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's ongoing WWE SummerSlam live coverage The tagline of the show tonight is "You'll never see it coming." That's a bold claim from WWE, which traditionally has been extremely predictable over the last twenty years Can they really pull off a surprise? And what is that surprise about? A swerve in the[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's live SummerSlam coverage Usually, we have a couple of writers trading off articles, but it looks like I'll be doing this myself tonight So instead of match-by-match articles, I'm going to submit hourly reports like I do for our weekly television show reports, except instead of publishing them the next morning,[...]

Tomorrow, Braun Strowman will face The Fiend at WWE SummerSlam, settling the differences between the two monsters in the culmination of a months-long feud built on years of shared history And if you thought that sort of result could be achieved in a regular old wrestling match, you're absolutely incorrect! Announced on the debut episode[...]

WWE Champion Drew McIntyre will face Randy Orton at SummerSlam tomorrow, defending his championship in the main event of a PPV with the tagline "you'll never see it coming." The chances of a screwjob ending that costs McIntyre the title are high But while he's still champion, perhaps now at the peak of his popularity,[...]

There's a lot of wrestling matches out there that one could argue are the "greatest of all time," but none of them can compare to the match between Bret Hart and The British Bulldog at SummerSlam 1992 in Wembley Stadium What makes that match stand out above all the rest? Bret Hart will be glad[...]

Bret Hart was a guest on WWE's The Bump podcast last week, and with SummerSlam fast approaching, the wrestling legend and Hall-of-Famer Hart was awarded yet another accolade: Mr SummerSlam It was an accolade that Hart was happy to accept because SummerSlam was always one of his best PPVs. Bret Hart appears on WWE's The Bump[...]

We've known for months that there's no way WWE would be allowed to hold SummerSlam at the TD Garden in Boston, but WWE only recently came to grips with it, announcing a couple of weeks ago that they would seek a new location That location would seemingly be at WWE's facilities in Florida, where every[...]

And you'd be in good company, as AJ Styles isn't buying it either. Would The Undertaker return for one last match?: Undertaker: The Last Ride (Image: WWE) In an interview with BT Sports, as transcribed by 411 Wrestling, Styles said he wants to make things official with a Loser Leaves Town match at SummerSlam "I'm the IC[...]

Finally admitting that the writing that's been on the wall for months is true, WWE has officially moved SummerSlam out of its planned location at the TD Garden in Boston As recently as May, Vince McMahon was still reportedly hoping that SummerSlam could have a live crowd However, the coronavirus pandemic will probably prevent any[...]

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SummerSlam will be held at the Performance Center And it was a wrestler who convinced Vince McMahon to enforce coronavirus safety profiles. The official logo of the WWE. A report from Dave Meltzer at F4WOnline reveals that Rey Mysterio is currently working for WWE without a contract Mysterio signed his latest deal with WWE in September of[...]

Could we be gearing up for a rematch between WWE's Vince McMahon and one of his greatest opponents, God, at WWE SummerSlam? Most people would view the current coronavirus pandemic as a situation that, while very sad and unfortunate, is outside of our ability to control, at least when it comes to when it will[...]

Plans for WWE SummerSlam are still going forward, according to TD Garden, the Boston arena where the event is scheduled to take place this August A fan asked the arena about the event and received a response, posting it to Twitter The number of coronavirus cases in Massachusettes has decreased to just over 1500 as[...]

Less than a week after the WWE announced Wrestlemania 36 will take place over two nights (Saturday, April 4, and Sunday, April 5, with Rob Gronkowski hosting) over coronavirus concerns and announcing a deal with ESPN to air classic WrestleMania events over three Sundays, a chunk of the WWE Network library is being made available[...]

Let's dive in! First up is the first Gamestop exclusive Gears of War figures from Storm Collectibles that are starting to show up. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ These have been out before, but these Scooby-Doo two-packs are showing up again[...]

Fans watching Dolph Ziggler's recent segments on WWE programming may have been thinking it was all building to a match between Ziggler and WWE Hall-of-Famer Shawn Michaels, but it looks like it's Hall-of-Famer Bill Goldberg that will face the Show Stealer at SummerSlam later this month According to Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer, and all of[...]

WWE is leaving sunny Brooklyn behind and fleeing to the Great White North next year! The company has officially confirmed that Toronto will be the location of SummerSlam in 2019 The Scotiabank Arena will host four nights of WWE action in August 2019, with SummerSlam, NXT Takeover, Raw, and Smackdown Live. In a statement on WWE.com,[...]

WWE SummerSlam, a 17-hour annual pro wrestling event, kicked off with Seth Rollins vs Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Championship But as the challenger, Rollins, made his way to the ring, a lot of people on social media (and at least one who emailed us) noticed that his outfit looked a little familiar… #SummerSlam opens up[...]

Tomorrow night at WWE SummerSlam in Brooklyn, five-time WWE Women's Champion Alexa Bliss will face off against her challenger, The Baddest Woman on the Planet, Ronda Rousey, in what might be the main event But is Bliss already looking ahead to her next challenge, against none other than legendary superstar Trish Stratus? Well, not really, but[...]

After spending years building up to Roman Reigns' coronation as WWE Champion in a match that was previously expected to take place at SummerSlam against Brock Lesnar, it seems that fate — and UFC performance enhancing drug policies — have intervened Lesnar won't be participating in the PPV, at least according to the latest rumor[...]

Their annual wave of SummerSlam Elites will be out again this year, along with a second wave of the Target exclusive Hall of Champions Elites, and three new Amazon exclusive Best of the Attitude Era Elites Basically- all of us WWE figure collectors have a lot of shopping to do Let's dig in. First we have[...]

WWE's big Summer PPV event, SummerSlam, is in the record books, and while the show went well for many Superstars, one met a tragic early demise: the beach ball being batted around the crowd during the Tag Team Championship match between Sheamus and Cesaro vs Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins. During the match, Cesaro jumped into the[...]

New Day, the groups consisting of Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods, and as of this writing, the WWE Smackdown Tag Team Champions, are known for wearing some cool, very colorful ring gear, including Dragonball Z-styled gear. Well tonight at SummerSlam, they decided to go comic-themed, with the group coming out dressed in Red Lanterns-themed[...]

In appearance on the Tonight Show to promote WWE SummerSlam and NXT Takeover Brooklyn, WWE exec Triple H body slammed host Jimmy Fallon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oG5__SCDEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Thank You Notes: Triple H Body Slams Jimmy Through His Desk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oG5__SCDE) But one former WWE Superstar, Scott Steiner, who isn't a fan of Triple H,[...]

From WWE alone over the next five days, we'll have NXT Takeover Brooklyn, SummerSlam, Monday Night RAW, Smackdown Live, 205 Live, and NXT But if you only watch one wrestling show this weekend… make it Southpaw Regional Wrestling You won't regret it. Watch all the episodes below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQhiw_9CrHMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Lost 1986[...]

Nothing personal here, just a fact folks." Ouch! What is King going to think about this?! Graham finished by making a prediction for WWE SummerSlam: "Also, HHH being the consummate professional, puts over the younger talent on the biggest stage of them all, mania HHH put over Roman Reigns at mania 32 and Seth Rollins at mania[...]

Stephen Amell is getting ready for his trip to WWE SummerSlam to take on Stardust… and while he is packing, he shot this video to show everyone what he's bringing along The Blue Jays workout shirt and socks are nice, but he seems to be hinting that the will be wearing the new Green Arrow[...]

The fabled big four events in the WWE have always been the Royal Rumble in January, WrestleMania in March/April, Summerslam in August and Survivor Series in November While the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania will always be the bigger two events, it has been a battle for years between Summerslam and Survivor Series for who will[...]

Lots of things have happened since the last time we spoke, a couple good things, mostly bad (looking at you Brie Bella), so let's dive right in. SummerSlam was fantastic From top to bottom, I enjoyed the whole event, I thought the majority of the matches were strong, with a match of the year contender thrown[...]

But that is because SummerSlam is only 1 day away! Also, there was quite a bit of big WWE-related news this week Next week I swear I will throw in some ROH, but this week the focus is on the big dog. Ahh, SummerSlam The first wrestling card I have vivid memories of watching was SummerSlam[...]