1. The Undertaker Is Wrestling Brock Lesnar At SummerSlam
So, this is where we are. After 20 of 30 years of WWE successfully creating new stars and top performers who were able to be good-to-great to insanely terrific draws under Vince McMahon's regime, SummerSlam 2015 is headlined by a 50-year old dude who has wrestled once a year for roughly the past half-decade versus a guy who actually gets paid more than most of the people who broke up his brawl with The Undertaker combined in order to stay home and actually not wrestle full time. The idea that WWE is so bereft of main event stars when there's literally tons of athletic and charismatic people both on TV and especially in NXT who in many cases have world and TV experience is insane. This isn't a case of just having a bunch of guys around who don't "know how to work" and "can't get over." These are all just proven wealth earners who haven't made a cent for a certain man, and are sadly being punished for something that forever they were oftentimes banned from from being hired to work in Vince McMahon's WWE. Something's gotta give. Maybe it's Vince's grip on WWE.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.