Summerslam. Early thoughts?

[Valdora]

So far for me this card looks...well not that good. The 7 on 7 is falling apart week by week to the point we have no idea who is going to be in what.

The WWE and World Title matches might be good but I don't think the Rey VS Kane match will draw a dime.

Its wierd both title matches seem to a third party feuding with one or both men. Be interesting to see if we get a triple threat.

Apart from that everything is still up in the air but this Summerslam doesn't look like a great card in my eye.

[DM]

There is hope I suppose for this to be as good as it can get, I think the problem with this particular Pay Per View is that they had a plan from the get go and due to injuries or unfortunate events, things got switched around and this is the backlash from it.

[Jman]

Ya! It not looking great! To be honest i not sure if im ready to see undertaker return yet either....i would much prefer they gave kane a long enough title run and build up hype for undertakers return! Returns are always best when you havent seen them since over around 6 or 7 months. Look at HHH return in 2002....WOW...what a pop!

[Valdora]

Agreed J-Man. And you might what to sign up for an account so you get credit for your posts.

[DM]

Currently Khali is being pulled from the card, that is a rumor floating around and the Diva's Title has been added, but to say I'm hyped for Summer Slam, honestly other than the Kane/Rey match I'm not all that hyped.

What's ironic is that they have been showing clips of other summer slams of the past and I turn to BM and say "Wow remember that?" I'm not sure if I've had that feeling of Summer Slam for a long while, in fact I think the last one I said that about was Summer Slam 2005. Or at least completely enjoyed all the way through, with just a few bumps in the road.

Lets hope WWE has something planned other than banking on Nexus and the Taker Storyline.

[alex0816]

summerslam is lookin to good, only 5 matches, wtf?, not really lookin foward to any matches other than nexus vs wwe, but im hopin orton gets the belt. any1 got any ideas as to who might join wwe? miz? i dont think so, hhh? maybe bryan danielson comes back

[DM]

I am picking Bourne, maybe the Miz and DiBiase, it's almost too Cliche' to see Danielson back going AGAINST Nexus but they did kind of set those blocks up the week after he was 'released' from the company. If anything I think they'll hold him off a little while longer.

[jman]

Ya agreed! I have to say though i really do see a cena heel turn coming at summerslam! I dont know what it is but you can almost tell that it will happen! The way michael cole said on raw ''oh cena has been the centre of this nexus for the last month or two''.....hmmmmmmmmmm........I WONDER WHY!! If the crowd are as in to this match as the crowd were on raw this week i think it could be good......but you're right in the way that its bad they are counting on two matches to make the show.

[DM]

The best way to turn Cena heel in this situation is to have his team, literally, not trust him, rag on him for a few weeks (but it's too late for that now) then when it comes time for the match they get reluctant to tag in, help out, etc etc, Cena gets to the point where he turns on the team (just like we would if our team was screwing us) and lash out thus costing the match. A heel turn but with reasons, not just a 'because' heel turn.

[jman]

Ya! A legit heel turn would be much better! I think if cena does turn heel that they could give some legit reasons for it. There are alot of cena haters out there for one. They could make it that he got sick of trying to earn all the fans respect and even all the wwe superstars respect and decided he would make them respect him...something like that . Alot of people predicting HHH heel turn at summerslam and even daniel bryan return...i dont think either will happen but i must say im looking forward to see what they do with this match.

[DM]

See what I mean, a legitamate turn works best, especially in Cena's case, hell they could mimic the Hogan turn angle when he got sick and tired of the boos but you have to add that small element of his team not trusting him, even though he wouldn't turn they forced him to, least I think it would work.

Triple H as heel, well, where have we seen that before? Reports suggest that he'll be out until the end of the year but they said the same thing about Edge as well. Honestly I couldn't see him as the leader of Nexus since you also have to kind of remember (though I'm sure WWE forgot) the general manager may or may not have a tie in with Nexus. Triple H as a heel is good TV however since he's good at being bad, though another, slight problem though is, he has to have his return match against Shaemus and I HIGHLY doubt they'll turn him face to turn Triple H heel.

Either way it's kind of touchy at the moment to just turn someone heel, they'd have to have some kind of build to it, but then again, this Nexus idea could be the build for it.