6 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2020

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6. Toned-Down ThunderDome Works

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After watching the seizure-inducing debut of the WWE ThunderDome on SmackDown Friday night, you could be excused if you were dreading watching SummerSlam.

Thankfully, WWE appears to have gotten some of the lasers and lighting effects out of their system, as it appeared that they toned things down a bit for SummerSlam and changed the color scheme well enough to work. They used pyro and other special effects (blasting solo cups for the Street Profits, steam for Braun Strowman) effectively.

Most notably, the virtual crowd filling the typical WWE arena layout actually looked somewhat normal, especially compared to what we’ve been seeing in the Performance Center the past several months. It wasn’t the same, but it wasn’t bad either.

Sure, in a couple months, we might be tired of the ThunderDome and openly deriding it, but we’ll give it passing marks for its first PPV.

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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.