10 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2019

by Scott Carlson

1. Rollins Burns It Down

Seth Rollins
WWE.com

Show of hands: Who saw Brock Lesnar taking the fall so soon after regaining the WWE Universal Championship?

Seth Rollins pulled off the impossible Sunday night, defeating Lesnar at SummerSlam to win back his title and silence the critics. It came in a brutal match that featured: six German suplexes, one F-5, two frogsplashes (one through a table) and three curbstomps.

What really made this match a marvel was seeing fans rally behind Rollins, because they weren’t all with him early on. It sounded like a split crowd initially, but that gave way as the contest wore on, with Rollins’ perseverance winning them over so much that they all were chanting, “Burn it down!” by the end.

Kudos for closing with a strong performance that elevated the PPV overall and let fans go home on a happy note.

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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.