10 Burning Questions For WWE SummerSlam 2015

What answers will SummerSlam bring us on Sunday?

by Scott Carlson

The five-week wait is nearly over. Now all fans need to do is buckle down for a lengthy weekend of wrestling, with WWE turning SummerSlam into a multi-day extravaganza that includes the latest NXT Takeover special on Saturday, while SummerSlam itself has been turned into a four-hour affair. Making SummerSlam the €œWrestleMania of the Summer€ is an interesting concept, and the PPV is stocked with a 10-match card, anchored by a couple really big matches and some potential show-stealers. If the matches deliver and subscription numbers happen to trickle upward, we could see this become a new tradition. Or it could be deemed a failure (much like the 40-man Royal Rumble or the Gobbledy Gooker) and never be seen again. But with SummerSlam just around the corner, there are some questions that will need to be answered before Sunday€™s event is over. These are the questions that should be on fans€™ minds as they get ready to settle down in front of the television or file into the Barclay Center in Brooklyn Sunday evening. The answers will help determine how big of a success SummerSlam is. With that said, let€™s take a look as some of the burning questions for the 28th installment of WWE€™s SummerSlam.

Bonus: How Will €˜NXT Takeover: Brooklyn€™ Measure Up?

While this doesn€™t pertain directly to SummerSlam itself, it bears mentioning that the night before, NXT is holding its latest Takeover event in the same arena. Unlike previous Takeovers, this one is taking place outside of the tiny Full Sail University arena and in a sold-out Barclay Center in Brooklyn. And the card looks every bit as strong as SummerSlam€™s lineup. Consider the main event of Finn Balor defending his NXT Championship against Kevin Owens in a ladder match. Or how about Sasha Banks putting her NXT Women€™s Championship on the line against Bayley? There€™s a bruiser match between indy legend Samoa Joe and homegrown Baron Corbin, and the WWE/NXT debuts of Jushin €œThunder€ Liger and Uhaa Nation (now Apollo Crews). What€™s there not to like about this card? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7OthfcAjA8 If the main matches get time to develop, we could be looking at a superb two-hour event that sets the bar even higher for Sunday€™s PPV. Perhaps a little €œfriendly competition€ between the two brands will help push the WWE main roster to step it up. They can€™t want to be upstaged by the guys and gals in developmental.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.