10 Fascinating WWE SummerSlam 2007 Facts

2. Orton And Batista Were Reportedly Both Supposed To Win The World Titles

Jackass Umaga WWE SummerSlam 2007 Poster
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Quite typical of the modern-era SummerSlams that go without featuring title changes, the 2007 edition held four championship bouts, and each champion retained their gold. Cena stood tall at the end after vanquishing Orton, and Khali, as mentioned, took the DQ loss to preserve his reign. Kind of uneventful and humdrum.

According to Figure Four Weekly, the plan as of the week before SummerSlam was to actually have both titles change hands. The newsletter states that the call to keep the WWE Championship on Cena was only made two days before the pay-per-view. Historically, that was a good move, because Cena was merely weeks away from becoming the first WWE Champion of one year-plus since Randy Savage made it 371 days in 1988-89.

The belts would change soon enough anyway; Batista got the World Heavyweight back from Khali at Unforgiven, and Cena vacated the WWE Championship with a pectoral injury the first week of October.

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