Summerslam 2016 Pre-Show & Live Show

Lithium93_

Being held in Brooklyn, New York again this year and next..

One match announced so far

Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton.

WWE Universal Championship
Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins.

More TBA over the next few weeks.

Lithium93_

Itssoeasy wrote: »

First summerslam not being held in the staples centre ? It was held in Brooklyn last year lithium.

Cheers for the correction, will edit my mistake now :pac:

Itssoeasy

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Cheers for the correction, will edit my mistake now :pac:

And I'll delete my post if you'll do the same and this won't have happened.

paulie21

Wonder who Ambrose will defend the title against? Presumably Styles, Cena, Wyatt will be busy with other matches. Del Rio seems like last legitimate contender he could face

CSF

paulie21 wrote: »

Wonder who Ambrose will defend the title against? Presumably Styles, Cena, Wyatt will be busy with other matches. Del Rio seems like last legitimate contender he could face

Every chance there'll be a cross-brand match with Rollins or Reigns.

SureYWouldntYa

CSF wrote: »

Every chance there'll be a cross-brand match with Rollins or Reigns.

Hardly when they had a clean finish

Makes a joke of the brand split if they immediately start doing cross brand matches just because

CSF

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Hardly when they had a clean finish

Makes a joke of the brand split if they immediately start doing cross brand matches just because

Really think the main title is staying on Smackdown for long?

SureYWouldntYa

CSF wrote: »

Really think the main title is staying on Smackdown for long?

I'd have thought it's there to help legitimize the brand, and give Raw the new title whatever it is

Same as was done in 2002 with Lesnar/HHH

grames_bond

That poster is missing someone very important! :pac:

CSF

Who now for Reigns I wonder?

correction

Can't really see any possible contender for Ambrose at SummerSlam other than Bray which I'm not particularly interested in but the rest of the card is shaping up to be strong enough to carry a bland title match. RAW's main event (won't spoil anything), Cena vs. Styles (presumably) and Lesnar vs. Orton are all matches that could be great that I'm really interested in so I can live with Ambrose vs. Wyatt.

Del Rio is a possibility and I actually would prefer that but with talk of him leaving soon and being buried in general I can't see a sudden push like that.

sky88

I think it will be ambrose vs AJ vs cena and possibly bray as well as the smackdown main event

J. Marston

CSF wrote: »

Who now for Reigns I wonder?

He's outta of the title picture lost clean two nights in a row so the Superman persona has faded a little. Putting him in a feud where the fans can get behind him might help, against someone like Sheamus.

Unless WWE have lost faith in him.

CSF

J. Marston wrote: »

He's outta of the title picture lost clean two nights in a row so the Superman persona has faded a little. Putting him in a feud where the fans can get behind him might help, against someone like Sheamus.

Unless WWE have lost faith in him.

He needs to go heel though. Zayn seems a good choice IMO. He's the most face of the faces. Not that Reigns would need much to get heat.

Lithium93_

Finn vs. Seth, to quote Good 'Ol J.R will be a slobberknocker.

Loughc

CSF wrote: »

Who now for Reigns I wonder?

Have a feeling Rusev. He hinted he wants a bigger challenge.

paulie21

Sasha v Charlotte for title confirmed

Bounty Hunter

Loughc wrote: »

Have a feeling Rusev. He hinted he wants a bigger challenge.

I'd like to see him vs Zayn or Cesaro but you might be right.

JP Liz V1

So we have Ambrose Vs. Ziggler for WWE WHC

Cena and Styles likely to battle again too

Lithium93_

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

So we have Ambrose Vs. Ziggler for WWE WHC

Cena and Styles likely to battle again too

And Balor v Rollins as well..

JP Liz V1

Lithium93_ wrote: »

And Balor v Rollins as well..

The mvp match of the ppv

Lithium93_

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

The mvp match of the ppv

Without a shadow of a doubt..

CSF

Obviously these stories have yet to develop in the direction of Summerslam, but in terms of the card alone, with those 3 matches, the Orton v Lesnar and Sasha v Charlotte, that is a pretty epic looking card. Life after Roman.

SureYWouldntYa

This card is looking absolutely unreal

Hopefully it's as good as or better than the best Summerslam, 2002. Such a well paced ppv, with very little filler, should be the template for all good ppvs minus Mania

Lithium93_

Seth Rollins vs Finn Balor for the WWE universal Championship

Dean Ambrose (c) vs Dolph Ziggler for the WWE Championship

Charlotte vs Sasha Banks (c) for the WWE Women’s Championship

Apollo Crews vs The Miz (c) for the Intercontinental Championship

John Cena vs AJ Styles

Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton

Lord TSC

Thats a savage looking card, in fairness...

Lithium93_

Could be the best Summerslam ever, well one of the best...

Oh and just a reminder it has a special start time in America, 7 Eastern, 4 Pacific, so that'd be midnight our time.

Loughc

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Could be the best Summerslam ever... Oh and just a reminder it has a special start time in America, 7 Eastern, 4 Pacific, so that'd be midnight our time. Wouldn't want anyone to miss out.

Looking like it'll be a four hour plus card. Can't bloody wait.

Lithium93_

Loughc wrote: »

Looking like it'll be a four hour plus card. Can't bloody wait.

Yeah, plus there's something being done with Flo-Rida as well, I definitely won't be watching that part...

Loughc

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Yeah, plus there's something being done with Flo-Rida as well, I definitely won't be watching that part...

Isn't that on the Thursday night?

http://www.wwe.com/shows/summerslam/article/flo-rida-summerslam-concert-benefit-connors-cure

Lithium93_

Loughc wrote: »

Isn't that on the Thursday night?

http://www.wwe.com/shows/summerslam/article/flo-rida-summerslam-concert-benefit-connors-cure

Yeah, your right, had it in my head for some reason it'd be on the main show..

CSF

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Yeah, plus there's something being done with Flo-Rida as well, I definitely won't be watching that part...

Nothing worse than when they bring rappers on, the excitement is palpable for P Diddy next week. Prepare yourself for a Heath Slater segment.

J. Marston

Surprised Flo-Rida would show his face in WWE again after getting schooled by Bo Dallas in that rap battle they had.

Lithium93_

CSF wrote: »

Nothing worse than when they bring rappers on, the excitement is palpable for P Diddy next week. Prepare yourself for a Heath Slater segment.

I hope Kevin Owens does to P Diddy what he did to Machine Gun Kelly..

Lord TSC

CSF wrote: »

Nothing worse than when they bring rappers on, the excitement is palpable for P Diddy next week. Prepare yourself for a Heath Slater segment.

We could only be so lucky! Heath = gold! :P

paulie21

The New Day will defend the WWE Tag Team Titles against Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson at SummerSlam, which takes place on on August 21st at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. WWE announced the news on Monday

Lithium93_

Seth Rollins vs Finn Balor for the WWE universal Championship

Dean Ambrose (c) vs Dolph Ziggler for the WWE Championship

Charlotte vs Sasha Banks (c) for the WWE women’s Championship

Apollo Crews vs The Miz (c) for the Intercontinental Championship

John Cena vs AJ Styles

Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton

The New Day (c) vs the Club for the Tag team Championship

Reebrock

This should be a fantastic card. I was somewhat underwhelmed by AJ / Cena at MITB, so I'm hoping this rematch really delivers.

johnnysmack

This is gonna be a really long PPV with all the extra matches they've added. Definitely gonna run over the 3 hours.

correction

It's 4 hours anyway isn't it?

Lithium93_

This should hopefully be the final card for Summerslam, but can see more being added..

WWE Universal Championship match
Seth Rollins vs Finn Balor

WWE Championship
Dean Ambrose (c) vs Dolph Ziggler

WWE women’s Championship
Charlotte vs Sasha Banks (c)

Intercontinental Championship
Apollo Crews vs The Miz (c)

John Cena vs AJ Styles

Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton

Tag team Championship
The New Day (c) vs the Club

Enzo Amore and Big Cass vs. Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens

WWE United States Championship
Rusev (c) (with Lana) vs. Roman Reigns

Lithium93_

correction wrote: »

It's 4 hours anyway isn't it?

Yup, starts at midnight instead of the usual 1 am start.

Loughc

Sheamus Cesaro as well? Possibly in the preshow.

Lithium93_

Pre-show to be 2 hours long, main show 4 hours..

Also Flo-Rida's show for the Thursday has been canned.

DM_7

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Pre-show to be 2 hours long, main show 4 hours..

Also Flo-Rida's show for the Thursday has been canned.

Was it moved to the main show?

Lithium93_

DM_7 wrote: »

Was it moved to the main show?

Nope completely canned according to the Barclays Center website.

http://www.barclayscenter.com/events/detail/wwe-summerslam-concert-2016

Lord TSC

I'm worried...I just realized the next PPV is

the Raw branded "Clash of Champions". And knowing WWE, I worry they'll be looking at Reigns vs Rollins in a "Clash of Champions" match with the US vs Interstellar (shudder) Championship match, with Reigns walking out with both titles. Means I don't have much hope for the Summerslam matches ended favorably

CSF

Lord TSC wrote: »

I'm worried...I just realized the next PPV is

the Raw branded "Clash of Champions". And knowing WWE, I worry they'll be looking at Reigns vs Rollins in a "Clash of Champions" match with the US vs Interstellar (shudder) Championship match, with Reigns walking out with both titles. Means I don't have much hope for the Summerslam matches ended favorably

Think you're grand without the spoiler tags for that one. I doubt they'll go down that direction to be honest. I see that rebuild being a slower one where they gear it towards Wrestlemania in what will become very quickly the most obvious thing ever and the fans will go nuts again when they finally pull the trigger on it.

I think it's weird that they've gone so big on the Reigns v Ambrose v Rollins stuff all year when you consider so many people were talking about that as the Wrestlemania main event from heaven for so long. Hard to see what they go with this year unless they do the Reigns v Cena match that they're obviously gumming to do.

Agent Coulson

Big surprise return

........Punk......

Rumors are starting.


Might make some sense if there is truth to the

cross promotion deal between the UFC & WWE he doesn't have to wrestle just a promo job on McGregor and there you have McGregor's opponent for WM both getting huge pay checks out of it.

Loughc

I can see zero percent chance of that happening to be honest.

CastorTroy

The Reigns thing can go one of 3 ways:
1. Push him as quickly as they did last time and get the same result
2. Keep putting him in PPV matches (sometimes for a title) onlt to lose to try and build some support for him before having him win a title
3. Punish him for another while for ruining their plans for the big triple threat match they had been building to with all 3 Shield members