Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 6, 2023 1:24:21 GMT -5
I only watched the main event, after the fact. I saw people complaining about it's length and it was slow.
I thought it was ok, but, they didn't have the crowd. You can tell they built these long pauses in where they expected the crowd to be crazy and they weren't. Rather than do the match you have and do the long pause because the moment calls it, they did it backwards.
That's why the match fell flat.
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Post by welshpenguin on Aug 6, 2023 1:46:46 GMT -5
9 from me. Roman won, Gunther won, Knight won & Iyo successfully cashed in, I couldn’t have asked for much more. I would have preferred Finn to win but you can’t have it all. Also a fun match with Logan & Ricochet.
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A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Aug 6, 2023 1:54:43 GMT -5
9 from me. Roman won, Knight won & Iyo successfully cashed in, I couldn’t have asked for much more. I would have preferred Finn to win but you can’t have it all. Also a fun match with Logan & Ricochet. To quote Faith No More, you want it all but you can't have it.
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Renslayer
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Post by Renslayer on Aug 6, 2023 1:54:59 GMT -5
A strong 8. I was thoroughly entertained
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 6, 2023 2:18:11 GMT -5
7
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Post by thechase on Aug 6, 2023 2:54:25 GMT -5
5
I definitely did not feel the buzz for Summerslam this year either, too many of the same match combinations, a main event that felt all too predictable for me and one I called the result of before it even started, leaving Trish vs Becky, one of the hottest feuds of the year off the card,, was also a red flag. About the only highlights I feel was, kudos to the booking and the crowd they turned the result of a pedestrian battle royale into probably the most critical turning point in the calendar year and actually gave Damage Control a major win
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Schizo
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Post by Schizo on Aug 6, 2023 3:00:43 GMT -5
8 Great show, MMA match was boring, would of perfer Jey to have won but loved everything else
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Aug 6, 2023 4:09:57 GMT -5
6. It was fine, but there were a few matches that didn’t quite hit their peak for me.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Aug 6, 2023 4:54:36 GMT -5
Whatever you feel about the booking or Roman's title run aside, WWE has been on an all-time run of very good to great PLEs. This was their weakest in a while but reminded me of WrestleMania 32. It was too long and had a lot of good matches but several booking calls that had me like
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Aug 6, 2023 5:14:33 GMT -5
6 Was the crowd dead the whole show, or was it just me?
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 6, 2023 5:32:10 GMT -5
It always interests me how it feels like a lot of the way people rate big WWE cards keys on who actually won each match (or at least a few key ones). Totally get it when people are hyped/bummed because their favorite won/lost, but it's funny to me that in the promotion of "wins and losses don't matter", it feels like a bigger factor in determining a good number of people's enjoyment of a show than it is elsewhere.
I didn't watch, but I'm guessing the "Roman as '97 Hogan" match endings might be eating at some people. At least it seems like he didn't actually plan this one? Still, as said before, booking him that way would be totally fine if they weren't also telling people in kayfabe that he's an all-time great champion; if you can't win any of your major defenses without someone else interfering on your behalf, then in kayfabe you can't really be an all-time great.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Aug 6, 2023 5:38:04 GMT -5
5
The streak of great PPV's comes to an end. This was rough.
Glad Iyo is champ, glad Gunther retained, glad LA Knight won the battle royal, but good god was everything else meh to Russo.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 6, 2023 6:50:56 GMT -5
Random Battle Royal with zero stakes had more life than the goddamn main event.
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Post by chronocross on Aug 6, 2023 6:54:48 GMT -5
6/10.
I liked Cody getting the win over Brock and having Brock show sportsmanship afterwards which was rare for him.
Glad they had LA Knight win the battle royal as he deserved it IMO.
Ronda/Bazler should have been on Raw as no one really cared and Becky/Trish should have been on the PPV.
The main event was a slog to get through and now Jimmy turns on his brother. I'm sure we'll get the promo on Friday about how Jey didn't visit him in the hospital or something.
It was decent but not one of my favorite Summerslams to watch.
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4real
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Post by 4real on Aug 6, 2023 7:05:17 GMT -5
7
It was fine. None of the matches really were amazing but most were good. Iyo cashing in is probably the moment of the show.
Loses points for the finish to the main event obviously. Very tired of all this.
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Post by cornettesracket on Aug 6, 2023 7:07:35 GMT -5
9 from me. Roman won, Gunther won, Knight won & Iyo successfully cashed in, I couldn’t have asked for much more. I would have preferred Finn to win but you can’t have it all. Also a fun match with Logan & Ricochet. more sleep ? That’s what I wanted.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Aug 6, 2023 7:08:39 GMT -5
It always interests me how it feels like a lot of the way people rate big WWE cards keys on who actually won each match (or at least a few key ones). Totally get it when people are hyped/bummed because their favorite won/lost, but it's funny to me that in the promotion of "wins and losses don't matter", it feels like a bigger factor in determining a good number of people's enjoyment of a show than it is elsewhere. To me, it comes back to the core belief held by a lot of the fandom that WWE hates their fans. I’m not going to debate that point one way or the other, but it often means that story beats that are nominally intended to be taken one way, are then taken another completely different way to fit that narrative. It’s why heels can win regularly enough over popular babyfaces in other promotions while in WWE it gets called “misery booking” (mind you, a term that I created to describe us constantly talking about things we don’t want them to book, as an opposite to “fantasy booking”).
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J is Justice
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Post by J is Justice on Aug 6, 2023 7:40:50 GMT -5
6 Was the crowd dead the whole show, or was it just me? Ronda versus Shayna killed them and they never recovered, lol.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Aug 6, 2023 8:38:03 GMT -5
It wasn't bad but it wasn't particularly good either. Probably my least favourite PLE this year.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 6, 2023 8:41:08 GMT -5
6 Was the crowd dead the whole show, or was it just me? They were lit for the Slim Jim Battle Royale. Main event probably was a mix of a long show and it felt like it didn't matter.
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