By Angel Sabater |
On Sept. 23, at 3:22 a.m. the start of fall happened, and with that the end of WWE Summer Slam, on Sept. 20 with the WWE Night Of Champions, which was held at the Toyota Center in Houston.
This entertainment phenomenon started in the early 1950’s when founded by Jess McMahon and Toots Mondit and was later taken over on Feb. 21, 1980 by their son Vince Kennedy McMahon. The official name WWWF (World Wide Wrestling Federation) changed, because of conflicts with WWF’s (World Wildlife Fund) trademark and changed to what is now WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). After years of being the Boss in WWE’s brand extension of Raw to Smackdown! McMahon’s daughter Stephanie McMahon had taken over along with her husband, WWE’s famous wrestler, Paul Michael Levesque aka Triple-H.
It has been 28 years, since 1988 when WWE SummerSlam had been first broadcasted and 28 years of main events or PPV (Pay-Per-View) events such as Royal Rumble (Since 1988), Survivor Series (Since 1987), Wrestlemania (Since 1985). Summerslam had taken place on Aug. 23 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York and was only available on PPV and for free to new subscribers on the WWE Network. With only a monthly subscription of $9.99, subscribers will have 24/7 programing of all PPV events, including WrestleMania, Royal Rumble and TV shows like Total Divas, NXT and many more.
Over the years wrestlers come and go, like Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Jerry Lawler, Andre The Giant, and Roddy Piper. Many of which became WWE Hall Of Famers. Here is the list of the ten matches that had taken place and the winners:
- Sheamus defeated Randy Orton in a singles match with the time of 12 minutes and 14 seconds.
- The New Day (Big E & Kofi Kingston with Xavier Woods) defeated The Prime Time Players (Titus O’Neil & Darren Young), The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto & Sin Cara) and Los Matadores (Diego & Fernando with El Torito) in a fatal four-way tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship with the time of 7 minutes and 36 seconds.
- Dolph Ziggler (with Lana) Vs. Rusev (with Summer Rae) ended in a double count out in a singles match with the time of 11 minutes and 50 seconds.
- Stephen Amell (actor that stars in Arrow) & Neville defeated Stardust & King Barrett in a tag team match with a time of 7 minutes and 36 seconds.
- Ryback (WWE Intercontinental Champion) defeated Big Show & The Miz in a triple threat match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship with the time of 5 minutes and 34 seconds.
- Roman Reigns & Dean Ambrose defeated Bray Wyatt & Luke Harper in a tag team match with the time of 10 minutes and 56 seconds.
- Seth Rollins (WWE World Heavy Weight Champion) defeated John Cena (United States Championship in a winner take all singles match for the WWE World Heavy Weight Championship and the WWE United States Championship with the time of 19 minutes and 27 seconds. It was secial guest: Jon Stewart that helped Seth Rollins win the match.
- DCB (Paige, Charlotte, and Becky Lynch) defeated Team Bella (Nikki Bella, Brie Bella, and Alicia Fox) and Team B.A.D. (Naomi, Sasha Banks and Tamina) in a Three-Team elimination match with the time of 15 minutes and 18 seconds.
- Kevin Owens defeated Cesaro in a singles match with the time of 14 minutes and 21 seconds.
- Lastly, the main event the Undertaker defeated Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) by submission (meaning Brock Lesnar gave in to the undertaker and passed out) in a singles match with the time of 17 minutes and 10 seconds. At first to distract the bell ringer the undertaker tapped out to Lesnar’s Kimura Submission and while the referee was on the other side he did not see Undertaker tap-out and made the match continue on, the undertaker took the chance of holding Lesnar into a Submission move and won the match. The controversy started at Wrestlemania 30, for 21 years of the Undertaker’s undefeated streak, that day he was then defeated by Brock Lesnar and thus made Undertaker come back to WWE a year later to rematch Brock Lesnar.
The next event will be WWE Live from Madison Square Garden on Oct. 3 of this year along with NXT Takeover: Respect on Oct. 7, 2015 at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. For more information on other events to come, go online to www.wwe.com.