8 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2017

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8. Feeling Deflated

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First, a thumbs down to the “fans” who brought a beachball to SummerSlam and started batting it around during the Raw Tag Team Championship match. Hopefully, you got ejected.

But that inflated beachball provided us with a fantastic moment, as the ball was batted around during the tag match right on the ring side opposite the hard camera (so it was impossible to miss). The ball fell to the ground in a no man’s land, and Cesaro didn’t hesitate. He sprinted over the barricade and raced to the ball, grabbed it and ripped it apart.

The fans loved it and cheered like crazy for Cesaro, turning him face for about 30 seconds. That allowed the fans to refocus on the actual entertainment: a really good tag title match.

Kudos to Cesaro for taking matters into his own hands and eliminating a distraction and annoyance there.

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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.