10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE SummerSlam
1. It Almost Opened The Forbidden Door First
Imagine this had happened.
Less than one full year before AEW's first Double Or Nothing pay-per-view in May 2019, Chris Jericho made a pitch to WWE management for an Intercontinental Title vs. Intercontinental Title clash at SummerSlam 2018. The then-reigning IWGP IC Champ wanted to wrestle WWE IC main man Seth Rollins.
Vince McMahon, rather predictably, was unimpressed by the idea and turned it down flat. Instead of tangling with Jericho, Rollins worked Dolph Ziggler in a 22-minute scorcher on the show. Meanwhile, ol' 'Y2J' didn't even get the nod for a spot anywhere on the card.
WWE would've been opening the "Forbidden Door" by putting a New Japan belt on one of their biggest pay-per-views. Jericho's pitch didn't come to fruition though. Perhaps it was never going to, because Vince didn't fancy sharing WWE's spotlight with anybody.
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