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

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8. Well-Agented Battle Royal

SummerSlam battle royal
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Battle royals can be a boring mess with a bunch of laying around and doing nothing, with a series of eliminations that don’t make any sense.

The SummerSlam battle royal, however, delivered several smart moments, with several interactions that tied together nicely. Chad Gable eliminating both Giovanni Vinci and Ludwig Kaiser as payback after losing to Imperium’s Gunther on Raw was a great touch. Santos Escobar tossed Austin Theory ahead of their United States Championship match. Miz and Grayson Waller – a newcomer who has been referred to as having similarities to the A-Lister – shared a moment. AJ Styles and Karrion Kross continued their feud as well.

Those moments, along with the action throughout, made for an enjoyable battle royal.

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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.