Rather than go with the usual review and analysis of this year's Summerslam, I thought I would post some random thoughts which occurred to me while getting ready to write this article.
1. There were only 7 matches on the card
2. Of those 7 matches only one of those was a tag team match (and even then, neither team were tag champions).
3. Because there were only 7 matches on the card it meant that there were only 16 people involved in pre-advertised matches on this show.
4. 7 of the 16 men involved were over 40 while 3 of those were over 50.
5. There were 4 part-time wrestlers on the show (a quarter).
6. Of the 16 men on Summerslam only 3 had debuted since the year 2000 (I don't count Chavo, Rey and Booker here who made their WWE debuts in 2001 but had allready been wrestling for many years prior to this in WCW).
7. There were only 3 title matches on the show, despite WWE having 9 championships.
8. The Extreme Rules match for the ECW world title was the second match on the show and was not the most Extreme match on the card, despite being for the championship of Extreme Championship Wrestling.
9. There were no cruiserweights on the show.
10. There were no matches involving women. Not even Divas! (except Lita who was involved in the main event!)
Apart from these minor points this was a pretty good show. There were a lot of fun matches and it made for an entertaining spectacle. Unofrtunately many of the points raised above are indicative of just why WWE is suffering with decreasing pay per view buyrates and ever decreasing TV ratings. Until new stars are made, then it can only get worse for WWE.
Overall verdict: B+
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