The build is here.
This is the 130th WWF PPV; the 32nd
Summer Slam.
(Dark – Danielson d. Ali, Danielson stops the match, shows
Ali a spot, match resumes, Danielson is right, but it’s annoying)
(BWI d. BSS/Clique/GDI)
The show opens with a clip package of past Canadian PPVs:
Wrestlemania VI…Bret keeps his IC title over Shawn…Hennig
keeps the WWF Title over Savage..
Wrestlemania XVIII…Edge and Christian square off against Hunter/Razor…Flair
brawls with Hogan and the Undertaker…huge TLC spot with Jeff Hardy crashing
through Chris Jericho..Kurt Angle defeating Hennig…
Summer Slam 2004…RVD wiping out Heyman…Edge hitting HHH with
the steel steps…a high spot from the RVD/Rey tag team…Jericho and Trish
together, holding up the Worldwide Title Belts…Benoit hitting 8 consecutive german
suplexes on Angle…
Survivor Series 2016…Charlotte beating Natty to keep the Women’s
Title…Brock F’5ing Goldberg…Steen and Generico coming down the aisle together…AJ
Styles hitting the Styles Clash on Luke Harper…
The announcers are Ranallo (16th PPV) Heyman (15th
PPV) and, in a surprise, Samoa Joe, making his return to TV for the first time
since Mania.
1.
PAREJAS INCREIBLES: WOMEN’S TITLE QUALIFYING
MATCH (winning team will square off to claim vacant women’s title) BAYLEY/MOON d.
NEIDHART/STRATUS d. LYNCH/FLAIR d. BLISS/CROSS
-Some type of mismatched thrown together tag thing is a common Summer Slam occurrence given the limited talent pool relative to the other three PPVs – so these are all women feuding with each other (kinda) winning team squares off against each other for the title vacated due to Asuka’s injury at the hands of the Horsewomen (Ronda out, Ripley in). Neidhart/Stratus eliminate Bliss/Cross, if they can do a Hart Attack that would be good. Lynch/Flair just can’t ever get it together, wind up brawling on the outside and getting counted out, and finally, Bayley gets the fall on Natty.
2. WOMEN’S TITLE: BAYLEY d. MOON (Sami Zayn, referee, the video where Sami says he’s just trying to earn a living, please don’t chant Ole, plays for the crowd, not aired for the broadcast, and then Sami enters – this is Canada, so the expectation should be pretty heavy pop).
Bayley has always had the can’t win the big match label – she’s the purest possible white meat babyface, but she finally breaks through, becomes the 9th modern women’s champion, it’s a nice moment and then she’s attacked by the Horsewomen – they beat her down, Baszler winds up holding the title belt aloft.
3.
THE FIEND BRAY WYATT d. RANDY ORTON
-Vengeful Bray claims his first victim in this new persona, it’s a squash match.
4.
KEVIN STEEN d. APOLLO CREWS
-We’re in Toronto in the summer of 2019 – it would be great to find literally any member of the Raptors to come down the aisle with Steen – as it is here, he wears a Raptors jersey – no reference is made ever in any broadcast connecting him and Zayn; Steen’s going to get the big babyface reaction and we’re going to let that happen – let’s do a backstage promo prior to the match where he speaks French. Steen told Mysterio he was a changed man and by all indication it looks to be the case.
5.
AJ STYLES d. PRINCE DEVITT
-There’s not a rematch coming anytime soon – so they do full main event style here, long match, big bombs, nearfalls – each hits the others finisher – this is a match a long, long time coming and in the ends there’s a Styles Clash right in the middle of the ring.
6.
WWF TAG TITLES: SHOOT NATION (LESNAR/NEMETH w/ANGLE,BENJAMIN,LASHLEY,GABLE)
d. UNDERGROUND (GULAK/LORCAN w/ REGAL,AoP)
-Decisive win here for Shoot Nation; whichever member of AoP isn’t injured takes a table bump – Angle knocks Regal out, this is the end of this program, so they finish off the non-Murphy/Black Underground group here – big babyface win – postmatch, with a snickering Heyman looking on from the announce – Walter comes down the ramp, holding his Dark Ride belt – he walks right into Shoot Nation, unafraid of being massively outnumbered, and he gets right in Lesnar’s face. Lesnar and Walter going nose to nose.
7.
IC TITLE: RICOCHET (w/ALEXANDER,TOZAWA) d. BUDDY
MURPHY (w/ALEISTAIR BLACK)
- Rough night for Underground; Ricochet goes over here in the best match they can have; he and Black stare hard at each other from across the ring postmatch.
8.
WWF TITLE: TYLER BLACK (w/GALLOWS,ANDERSON,YOUNG)
d. KINGSTON (w/WOODS)
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Kingston is the scrappy babyface underdog – just
trying to overcome the odds – but he can’t, Black gets the fall. Postmatch, there’s a lighting change – the long
gone violin player comes to the ramp – and for the first time since Mania, Shinsuke
Nakamura is here, he does his full entrance – the show ends with he and Black
face to face at mid-ring.
So – that’s Summer Slam 2019. Back in a month for part one of the build to
Survivor Series 2019; 12 matches on that card – big, big show
