Isn't there usually a huge summer storyline?

[Perfect Timing]

Stephanie,HHH,Angle love traingle, HBK's in ring return, Kane unmasked, Mr. McMahon death, Nexus, CM Punk Pipe Bomb/WWE Title win etc.

What have we got this year? nothing seems to be as big as the above.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

The draft

[mrbananagrabber]

Baron Corbin vs Kalisto.

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Draft, new titles, a cruiserweight division, Finn Balor's insane push to the moon, a real chance of Ziggler winning the title, return of Foley and Daniel Bryan. Those are arguably bigger then any past storyline since it has literally changed the landscape of the WWE and created a 1000 new storyline and feuds and returns.

[Perfect Timing]

I don't count the draft as it was announced months in advance.

[Slanted and Enchanted]

I think the whole big summer angle expectation is overblown. I wouldn't consider the love triangle to be huge and all the rest were just huge angles that happened to be in the Summer. More often than not, Summers in the WWE have not had any huge angles compared to ones that did. That being said, the huge Summer angle this year was the draft. It kinda sucked but there you go.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

No. This has always been a myth.

[Big Bad Kahuna]

In general: draft

Hardcore fans: CWC

[Fauxnaki]

Something Something RKO Viperville

That's all we're getting this summer

[mrbananagrabber]

She's still hurting after being dumped by Rusev, so things have been quiet with her lately.

[Slanted and Enchanted]

Aug 11, 2016 12:01:17 GMT -5 Perfect Timing said:

I don't count the draft as it was announced months in advance.

Hollywood summer blockbusters also get announced months in advance. They still occur in the Summer.

[bootytea]

It's probably Brock and Randy I guess.

Summerslam looks to be a great card in ring wise at least.

You could also argue the draft I guess, but the first one was a bigger deal.

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

One could argue the New Era is basically this, with its own stories like Raw's Universal Championship and Brock vs. Orton included among it.

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Aug 11, 2016 12:01:35 GMT -5 Slanted and Enchanted said:

I think the whole big summer angle expectation is overblown. I wouldn't consider the love triangle to be huge and all the rest were just huge angles that happened to be in the Summer. More often than not, Summers in the WWE have not had any huge angles compared to ones that did. That being said, the huge Summer angle this year was the draft. It kinda sucked but there you go.

I think you're right. Things just happen in the summer and we assume that it's some sort of WWE tradition but it's just things that happened to have happened in the summer, I don't think Vince sits the team down and says "summer's coming, let's think of something." I'm keeping my eyes on Heath Slater silently being the big summer angle.

[Perfect Timing]

A huge post Summerslam debut could remedy this situation.

[The Ichi]

The "big summer angle" thing is a myth. There have been big storylines that happened to have taken place in summer, but a lot of years haven't had one. I could probably cherrypick a bunch of big storylines from any time of the year.

[Sephiroth]

AJ vs Cena?

[joeiscool]

Aug 11, 2016 12:01:17 GMT -5 Perfect Timing said:

I don't count the draft as it was announced months in advance.

I don't see how you say the draft doesn't count. It's literally the driving force behind everything happening in WWE right now.

It would be like saying the NFL doesn't have any big games, and saying the Superbowl doesn't count.

[CM Parish]

A draft, a new world title, new roster debuts, returns for Foley and Bryan in Authority positions and Orton Vs Lesnar isn't enough for you?

[mrbananagrabber]

Orton vs Lesnar isn't even a story. It's "welp, we've got nothing else for them to do and we're paying them so - match."