WWE SummerSlam 2012 Results: Was the PPV Event Worth the Money?

I have a hard time writing articles like this, because in the moment you can make a snap judgment and say how good or bad something is without hesitating with your decision.

Three days later, it is a little more difficult to talk about all the worthiness of the most recent pay-per-view event, as we have since seen a three-hour Raw program that had more excitement and more impact than the matches we witnessed at SummerSlam.

Shouldn’t that be the other way around with arguably the second most important PPV of the year for the WWE?

If you look at the entire package of the SummerSlam event, from marketing and promotion to sales and then venue, not to mention the matches, it comes across as a solid “C,” with our wanting more from the last two matches.

Monday night contained more suspense and more drama as it unfolded.

The WWE puts together pay-per-view events as extravaganzas, with about three weeks in between each one to give us just a bit of time to relax and then to ramp up the train again. It also gives us a chance to find $44.95 or more to plunk down for what we hope will be a show better than the one before.

Was this event worth the money? Let’s take a look at what happened before and during SummerSlam 2012 and what has happened since.

We started with a disgruntled WWE champion who got no respect and wound up having him fight the company cash cow and a veteran who does not get the respect he deserves.

We had a world champion who has quickly become one of the best workers in the company take on a guy who cannot be anything else than a champion.

There was a change in the United State championship because of which we will not be seeing a guy with a silly sock parading around as a true champion. And don’t start with the Mick Foley and “Socko,” because I feel the same way about him.

The tag-team situation is still unresolved. The Prime Time Players are great performers, and the current tag-team champions are a great combination, but they need more of a challenge.

The match of the night was a non-title match between the MITB winner and one of the greatest champions in WWE history. It lived up to everything we wanted to see and then some. And now, because it was so great, we have seen one of our greatest veterans leave the company only after making his appearance again in January.

The intercontinental champion retained his title, but the hometown favorite should have been the one carrying out the title at an event like this.

And finally, the match that was supposed to be the match of the night.

Two gladiators beat on each other without any real pizzazz. It was boring and dull, and it needed more flavor to it. And in the end, the bigger, stronger, younger gladiator held his hand high in victory.

Also, because of these matches and the aftermath, three of these PPV stars are no longer wrestling for the company, or so it seems. But it took us an extra night to find that out, which made the free television program more compelling than anything we saw over the weekend.

While I thought the announcing team was great and Los Angeles is a great backdrop for the stars that come to this event, I have to say that the matches did not hold their weight.

Maybe Night of Champions can learn something from the mistakes of SummerSlam so it does not make errors in the future.

Until then, we can only say this was an average PPV at best.