How Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns Will Steal The Show At WWE SummerSlam 2018
'The Biggest Party Of The Summer' currently resembles the birthday bash Rachel Green had to endure at Monica's apartment instead of the one people enjoyed on her behalf around Joey and Chandlers. NXT will yet again be Brooklyn's hottest ticket, ensuring that the 13-match marathon can't possibly follow whatever Gargano, Ciampa et al serve up the night before. SummerSlam isn't "LOADED", "JAM-PACKED" or "STACKED", it's just...full.
On the go-home Monday Night Raw, WWE paid tribute to Jim Neidhart by referencing The Hart Foundation's white hot tag team title victory over Demolition at the 1990 edition of the summer spectacular. Such electricity doesn't exactly await the winners of The Revival Vs. The B-Team. The return of Dean Ambrose added ringside spice to Seth Rollins and Dolph Ziggler's Intercontinental Title match, and thank god for that. Fans got so bored during their Extreme Rules Iron Man match that they started chanting for the clock instead of the wrestlers. Baron Corbin and Finn Bálor will fight again despite notching 45 minutes of singles action together in the last month. To put that in perspective, that's around 20 minutes more than Roman and Brock cumulatively went in their April pay-per-view matches, and audiences were utterly exhausted with those too.
Back then, Reigns/Lesnar had felt like it'd not just been done to death but actually beyond it. As if the characters required exhuming from an entertainment grave just to try and stir fresh emotion from a crowd keener to join them six foot under rather than endure yet another battle between the behemoths. The dread was palpable when it became apparent the match was again the company's top priority, but fears were uncharacteristically assuaged by an intriguing acknowledgment of an inconvenient truth - Brock Lesnar is a unapologetic piece of sh*t.
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