8 Match Star Ratings For WWE SummerSlam 2020

8. Kickoff: Apollo Crews Vs. MVP - United States Title Match

A match like this was never got going to be a gentleman's three.

It was never going to be this exhilarating or hard-hitting festival of drama. It was always just going to sort of exist, enjoyed by WWE fans who don't much like non-WWE wrestling and watched detachedly by fans who grew bored of this layout and pace a very, very long time ago.

MVP is good at the details, so it was an engrossing enough watch even if it was entirely forgettable after the fact, but title match on third biggest show of the year demands something far more, does it not?

His facials conveyed the aggressively fine story.

And it was a nice enough story of a man in his physical prime versus a man at his psychological peak, which created the mildest of suspense and a marginally more engaging dynamic than the usual generic back-and-forth template fare of the Kickoff, but at some point, the numb and deeply long-term WWE consumer within surfaces and can think little else but "It's f*cking MVP in 2020, lads, who could care that much?"

Star Rating: ★★¾