7. These Matches Play Out Just As You Might Expect
While the extra hour added to SummerSlam has no doubt been put there to make it feel as big an event as WrestleMania, it doesn't really need it. There are more than a few matches on the card which would be better suited to an episode of Raw or SmackDown than a Pay Per View event, and it's not hard to guess how those fairly uninspired bouts will end up playing out. The Intercontinental Championship Match is no doubt going to conclude with Ryback emerging the victor because his title run has barely begun and there's really nothing new or interesting that a Big Show or Miz title reign would add to that uninteresting division (in all honesty, the best thing that could happen to it right now short of Daniel Bryan returning would be to have John Cena win the belt and restore it to its former glory as he has the United States Championship). Sheamus versus Randy Orton isn't a match I personally feel the need to ever sit through again, and Sheamus winning after being defeated at Battleground and on this past Monday's Raw seems the most likely outcome. This match honestly would have been better served with some sort of stipulation! Finally, there's Dolph Ziggler and Rusev's recently added bout. Lana has gone from being one of the best parts of WWE programming to one of the worst, thanks to her involvement with Dolph (who just feels like the heel in this feud with the Bulgarian Brute for some reason), but the Show Off is almost certainly going to take the loss here to the storyline can be further extended until a mixed tag team match wraps it up in a couple of months time and protects Rusev from taking a loss when Summer Rae is pinned by Lana. In other words: Yawn.