8 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Battleground 2015

Undertaker's return highlights inoffensive PPV that sets table for SummerSlam.

WWE effectively hit fans up for the WWE Network next month Sunday night, bringing out the Undertaker to interfere in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match and to set up a SummerSlam bout against Brock Lesnar, who ended his WrestleMania undefeated streak last year. That appearance alone €“ and the possibility Taker could very well wrestle on the summer€™s biggest PPV €“ generated a lot of buzz, but the question here is, how did all of this hoopla affect everything else? Battleground offered fans solid matches throughout the night, but little changed in WWE. No new champs were crowned. No feuds were settled €“ in fact, some are just getting started €“ as Roman Reigns and Bray Wyatt are probably going to collide again at SummerSlam, which the three trios of Divas are bound to have a bigger match next month. Hopefully, we will be spared a rematch between Sheamus and Randy Orton. Call Battleground an inoffensive show that provided good in-ring performances, but left you feeling about the same as when the evening started, save for Undertaker€™s resurrection. With SummerSlam five weeks away, this PPV did more to set it up than to squash beefs. So with that said, what did the zombie sit-up, and what got Tombstoned to Hell? Let€™s find out€

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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.