I'm excited because it's the best build in several years as we're getting two fresh and somewhat unpredictable matches as our double main event. The last time there was a Summerslam with this sort of great build was probably 2002 with Brock/Rock (the culmination of Lesnar's rocket push) and Triple H/Shawn Michaels (a dream match half a decade in the making and the long awaited in-ring return of HBK.) The undercard to that was damn good as well and it currently sits as my favorite Summerslam, but this year could end up topping it.
This year, we're getting John Cena/Daniel Bryan and CM Punk/Brock Lesnar, two fresh matches that we have not seen before (Cena and Bryan wrestling on Velocity ten years ago means nothing, especially when both guys have far more star power and have grown and improved as performers since that time) and there isn't any real certainty as to who will win either match. Plus, both feuds have a similarity in that Bryan's journey is about going from wrestling in high school gyms and the indies to now wrestling for the big leagues and challenging for the WWE Title against John Cena... and then we have Brock Lesnar mocking CM Punk on Smackdown for being someone who was wrestling in gyms in front of a crowd capacity of 100 people while he (Brock) was winning the NCAA Championship and the WWE Title. There's also the history of how both Punk and Bryan, while both huge superstars in the indies like ROH, were believed by Vince and other WWE officials to lack what it took to be future top stars in WWE. That's been well documented recently on TV - and it was part of what the Summer Of Punk was based on as well two years ago - with Heyman bringing it up to Punk on Raw and Bryan calling out Vince for believing as Maddox did that he was too small and also lacked the Corporate look of a top superstar and champion, as we saw last week with ordering him to shave off his beard.
If all of this is supposed to culminate in Bryan and Punk picking up huge victories (the biggest victories of their careers yet) in their respective main events, then the theme song "Reach For The Stars" makes sense since it's supposed to be about finally reaching what seemed previously like an impossible or improbable dream. Then again, last year's theme was "Don't Give Up" and the main event saw Triple H giving up to Lesnar lol.
Elsewhere, there's Kane/Wyatt, an intense feud between two dark souls. There's Sandow/Rhodes, the breaking apart of two former friends in a mid card feud that should make both guys feel more relevant. There's Ziggler and Katilyn/Langston and AJ, the culmination of two feuds at once. There's Del Rio/Christian (don't like Del Rio jobbing twice to Christian in non-title matches before the PPV, but it should still be a good match if nothing else), etc. Should easily be the best PPV of the year so far.
