8 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2023 (Results & Review)

3. Making The Ring Announcer Useless

Logan Paul Ricochet
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Why would you specifically bring Samantha Irvin into the storyline for the Logan Paul/Ricochet storyline, just to have her sit there like a potted plant at the most crucial moment of the match involving her fiancé?

Paul had made a point on Raw and again during their SummerSlam match to call out the ring announcer, seemingly bringing her into the fold and possibly factoring in more than just declaring the winner.

And then we got our moment during the SummerSlam opener: one of Paul’s entourage jumped the barricade and put a pair of brass knuckle on Logan’s hand in plain sight of Samantha. And what did Irvin do? Absolutely nothing. All she needed to do was hop up and get the referee’s attention. Is there some code of conduct that says she can’t?

The match was great. This lapse in the story was incredibly stupid. Don’t put the focus on her if you’re going to miss the easiest open net, which just made her look foolish.

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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.