Fans asking for longer divas matches got what they wanted, as Divas Champion Layla and Kaitlyn defeated Beth Phoenix and Eve.There is also an issue with the relevance of the fan interactivity when all three potential candidates wound up as part of the show anyway. The whole bit came across pretty weak, though, and it can't all be blamed on Piper. Roddy Piper seemed to be off his game in the Piper's Pit segment.When things like this happen, a win over the big man starts to mean less and less. Sin Cara's victory over Tensai wasn't even a fluke it was a definitive pinfall. One week, he has a brutal brawl with the World Heavyweight Champion, and the next he's jobbing to a cruiserweight in less than three minutes. WWE seems very uncertain what it wants to do with Tensai.These two men don't have issues putting together compelling action together, and neither do Punk and Cena, so why are people so up in arms about the WWE Championship match at SummerSlam? While it wound up being nothing more than a set-up for the tag match later in the night, the opening contest between Punk and Big Show wasn't bad at all.After Christian delivered Antonio Cesaro his first loss last week on Smackdown, I was worried Sandow would meet the same fate, but this was a more-than-welcome surprise. Sandow got out off it and hit his finisher. The match was fairly pedestrian until Clay's music hit, and Christian tried capitalizing on the distraction with a roll-up. Interference by Brodus Clay backfired during Damien Sandow's match with Christian, and there was much rejoicing - well, in my apartment anyway.The show is still a pretty stacked card and will surely deliver, but WWE has to rebound from some hit-and-miss build. Overall, it was a mixed bag of build for SummerSlam. There was also development for some of the under- and midcard matches scheduled for SummerSlam, and details of those advancements can be found below. In the end, Guerrero's distraction of the referee allowed Ziggler to score the pinfall over his rival.

I may intimidate you, but when you get to know me, you’re like ‘Oh my god, this guy would give me the shirt off his back.’ That’s Vince McMahon.There were also several instances of storytelling and advancement in this match, especially involving Jericho, Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero. If you see me coming down a dark alley at night, your eyes squinch sideways. He makes himself very accessible to you and he intimidates a lot of people, but he attracts me. He wants to be there for you, he wants you to come and ask him things. Vince is giving and I have the most highest amount of respect for Vince. “One thing Vince has told me is he loves the fact that I’m just me. R-Truth also commented on working with Vince McMahon: When we got to the back, me and Brock hugged and he was like, ‘That was funny. When Brock laughed, I tried my best to hold it in and I was holding it as much I could. When I hit it and he laughed, I did all I could to not laugh. I don’t want him to turn into Brock Brock.’ I agreed to it and went out there, and when I saw Brock starting to hold his laugh in, I knew he was going to laugh when I hit the Paul Heyman line because he thought I was talking about him. Can you pop Brock?’ I said, ‘I can make him laugh, but I want him to laugh in a happy way.

I’m like, ‘I feel like, personally, Brock should know what I’m going to say.’ Paul was like, ‘No Truth, we got a bet going, we want to see if you can make him laugh. “The thing about that is they didn’t want Brock to know what I was going to say. During an appearance on Ryan Satin’s Out of Character podcast, R-Truth discussed his in-ring promo segment with Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman from early 2020:

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