10 Big Concerns Heading Into WWE SummerSlam 2020
4. Wyatt & Strowman Have Underdelivered Together Twice This Year
The Bray Wyatt/Braun Strowman feud has been dreadful. It’s relied far too much on lore between these two characters that barely existed in the first place, and has been buried in the years since. It has been overwhelmed by terrible creative choices like the Swamp Fight’s endless cult leader monologue, or the mask finish at Money in the Bank, and from exchanges they’ve had in the ring, there’s no physical chemistry there.
Braun’s title run has been disastrous, which isn’t entirely his fault since he was a last minute plan, but handicap matches on PPV for the world title (somehow not his first handicap match on PPV in 2020) and this awful feud with Wyatt have cemented his run as unconvincing.
He needs to drop the belt to the Fiend here, but the worry is that the match will either lean into Swamp Fight style tedium, or try to work an epic Fiend main event with countless kickouts and ridiculous spots. That could work with a more versatile performer, Daniel Bryan pulled it for twice, but Braun hasn’t shown his capabilities as someone convincingly in peril and his recent darker segments with Alexa Bliss on Smackdown haven’t convinced either.
We all want this feud to pay off, but from everything so far, it’s a big black cloud over SummerSlam.