The WORST Moment From EVERY WWE SummerSlam
10. Fans Reject The Universal Title Design (2016)
One of 2016's big lures was the brand new Universal Title that Seth Rollins and Finn Bálor would be fighting to hold first. This happened during the 'colour scheme era', which meant that Raw's new World Championship had to be red. It looked like a toy version of the pre-existing WWE Title, and fans weren't too chuffed about it.
A rowdy live crowd in Brooklyn trolled WWE for the red dip look, and that reaction had a negative impact on the otherwise-great bout between Rollins and Balor to crown the first champ. Honourable mention must go to Finn getting injured and thus being unable to hold the belt for longer than 24 hours though.
He was stripped on the following Raw.
Fans didn't know that when SummerSlam was raging on. All they knew was that co-GMs Mick Foley and Stephanie McMahon had looked rather silly by ignoring general sentiment to pretend that the new fangled Universal prize was cooler than the other side of the pillow. Nobody was buying it, and that red aesthetic would stick around until the belt moved to SmackDown and got a blue paint job instead.
Thankfully, WWE has moved away from colour scheming their straps depending on Raw or SmackDown ownership. Today, titles have a much classier gold or silver motif that makes them look more credible and less like toys you'd see packed in with some action figures.
Even Mick and Steph must've known that this was a hard sell, but no-one expected the arena to rebel so loudly.