10 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2016
1. Short-Circuited Main Event
What can you say about the first PPV match between Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar? Was it overhyped? Sure. Did it fail to meet expectations? Absolutely.
Orton/Lesnar had the makings of a big fight, without the big fight feel. Sadly, this match was basically 10 minutes of Brock throwing knees in the corner and a bunch of German suplexes. Orton turned the tables with an RKO on the announcer’s desk, a draping DDT and another RKO, but a punt attempt got turned into an F5 for a long 2.
At that point, Lesnar mounted Orton and started raining down hammerfists and elbows, with one of them apparently cutting Randy so deeply that he bled like a proverbial stuck pig. It was so bad that the referee called for a stoppage, awarding the abbreviated match to Lesnar via TKO.
It’s understandable that Orton couldn’t continue, but that doesn’t change how disappointing of a main event this was, especially after the PPV was looking so strong for the first two hours. Hopefully we’ll get some ex post facto explanation on Raw.