For Your Consideration…SummerFest Sucks It The goal of this show is to put the WWE in a better position than it was in before
it. Yes, the goal is that simple. SummerSlam has always been Wrestlemania Part 2, not to mention the unofficial kick-off to the Road to Wrestlemania (yes, this early in the WWE calendar year). SummerSlam is the first big thing to happen in the WWE since the last time we saw Triple H and Randy Orton main event a PPV…I mean a real PPV. The company needs to approach this show as setting up the next few months of television until Survivor Series, so hopefully we won’t have to suffer through bait-and-switch tactics. I do have some fears before the show begins. My first fear is that the WWE is going to do something insanely stupid like keep the title on Jeff Hardy. Jeff has made it clear over and over again that he wants to leave. He wants a rest. He wants to sit at home with his wife and his guitar and watch the walls melt (that was a drug reference, not a “my house is burnt down†reference). CM Punk on the other hand is willing to work the insane schedule and burn himself out for the chance to become a true headliner. Please WWE, don’t have Hardy go over here and then drop the belt on Smackdown. Give CM a chance to become the true main event heel that he deserves to be. My second fear is that the WWE is going to turn either Shawn Michaels or Triple H. Some pundits have predicted it, but I think what the WWE needs right now is for a little stability on Monday Night RAW, and lame DX segments provide such. Since ratings are king for USA, having your most over stable of the past decade (sorry U.N.I.O.N.) back on television is the smartest move. Shawn and Hunter can fill two or three segments a show, and free up the WWE to be…gasp…daring. Take the title off of Orton, let him feud with Mark Henry (or a freshly face Teddy DiBiase) and let the champion John Cena feud with Jack Swagger. Sure, Henry isn’t going to electrify the crowd, but let the WWE get it out of their system before they go all Khali with him and put the strap around his waist. With DX as a guaranteed ratings grabber, the pressure is slightly off Swagger to pull in the audience, and maybe, just maybe, Creative can make ONE new star. Then again, that might be too much to ask. My final fear That Jerry Lawler gets elected mayor and the WWE taps Michael Hayes to return as Dok Hendrix. Or worse, hires Kevin Kelly and Tony Schiavone to call one of the hours of the broadcast. Or even worse (if it’s possible to go worse than Tony), giving the slot to Abraham Washington. Yes, that is hopefully the closest Abraham Washington’s name will ever come to SummerSlam. Mah Gawd, what a naght!
The SummerSlam is “the biggest event of the summerâ€, which is why we are getting the MTV Movie Awards style opening. You know the fake summer home movies motif isn’t that terrible, so I will give it to the WWE Graphics people. They really stepped it up.