9 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2018

7. The Hardest Part Of The Ring

Dolph Ziggler Seth Rollins DDT
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It’s hard to keep track, but the superstars had a near-obsession with the ring apron at SummerSlam.

Almost every match had a highspot on the apron. Just off the top of the head on the apron:

    Jeff Hardy crashed and burned with a Swanton Bomb attempt.
    Dolph Ziggler hit a DDT on Seth Rollins.Samoa Joe wiped out AJ Styles.
    Shinsuke Nakamura hit a kneedrop.

It felt like the superstars saw Velveteen Dream hit a DVD and Purple Rainmaker on the apron at TakeOver and decided that it looked like a good idea. But aren’t there supposed to be agents who prevent repetitious spots throughout the show?

They must’ve taken the night off.

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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.