10 Ways WWE SummerSlam 2015 Could've Been Saved

SummerSlam 2015 took place in the exact same arena as NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, which itself took place exactly twenty hour hours earlier. Not only did that show have significant buzz going on about it, but it also set the standard exceptionally high for the SummerSlam card. Unfortunately, despite a lot of efforts, the majority of fans agreed that NXT TakeOver was a better event than SummerSlam.

This is especially true as it relates to scheduling and match booking. NXT was 2 hours long, had six matches and short interludes. It opened with a hot match featuring a wrestling legend, had each match feel special, and was capped off by an excellent ladder match and a stellar women’s singles match. 

In contrast, SummerSlam was more or less twice as long, had ten matches, and several random and insignificant segments. The opener was a slow and plodding affair, several matches felt like TV-quality contests, and many matches were either overbooked or featured controversial finishes.

Because of these obvious negatives, SummerSlam would’ve benefited from being both in a different venue and on a different weekend from the NXT event. If that happened, the show’s negatives wouldn’t have been so pronounced, and the Brooklyn crowd wouldn’t have been as critical of the things that NXT did that WWE didn’t do.

With Triple H's NXT growing ever more popular and the audience growing increasingly more cynical towards the main shows booked by Vince and Kevin Dunn, it may be best that the two opposing show philosophies stay away from each other for a while.