9 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2018

1. WWE Actively Trolls Fans

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Maybe Vince McMahon should just come out onto the stage and moon the crowd for four hours if he wants to show fans how he really feels.

After Braun Strowman demolished Kevin Owens to retain his Money in the Bank briefcase, the Monster Among Men came out before the main event started and declared that he was going to cash in the contract on the winner of the WWE Universal Championship match. Fans in Brooklyn were delighted, as most weren’t too keen on Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns leaving SummerSlam with the title.

But then during the match, Reigns and Lesnar wiped out Strowman, and he was never heard from again. Seriously, Brock hit him with an F-5, the briefcase and steel chair and that was it for a guy booked as nearly invincible for two years. And then the PPV ended with Roman celebrating his “hard-fought” victory in a complete troll job of fans.

They bait-and-switched on a MITB cash-in from one of the most popular wrestlers on the roster and closed with one of the most despised babyfaces victorious. At least with Vince mooning you know WWE is showing you their arse.

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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.