10 Most Disappointing WWE Moments Of 2016

SummerSlam was WWE’s first post-Draft pay-per-view, and after several weeks’ of solid build, the company assembled a stacked card. Anticipation was high, and with some of WWE’s biggest and best set to face one another, it looked like we were heading for a real show of the year contender.

Sadly, it wasn’t to be. SummerSlam wasn’t WWE’s most disappointing show of 2016 (we’ll get to that…), but it was a huge letdown. John Cena and AJ Styles wrestled an instant classic, Charlotte and Sasha Banks had a great match, and Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins was solid but unspectacular. The rest of the card? Completely disposable.

Part of the problem came from cramming the pay-per-view with an obscene number of matches (12 in total), and most contests just didn’t deliver. Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton’s sloppy main event brawl succeeded only in injuring The Viper, Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler lost the crowds’ attention within the first minute, and the less said about the undercard, the better.

This was an important show for WWE, but it failed on almost every level. A strong SummerSlam would’ve set the weeks-old Brand Split off to an incredibly hot start, but it only muddied the waters on both Raw and SmackDown. There were worse WWE PPVs that SummerSlam this year, but none came with this show’s expectation levels.