WWF and wrestling fans it's been roughly two months since I last took a look at a classic WWF PPV and well the the PPV that i'm about to review for you all today is one that I have a bit of personal history with. This is also PPV that's been sitting on my laptop for at least a month and every single time that i've planned to review this very / particular show something else always came up which prevented me from reviewing this show and so here is my review of the PPV event that marked the official end of the original D-Generation X with the PPV event in question being called simply just "Summerslam" enjoy.
Of course the biggest storyline thats going into this PPV event is the Kurt Angle , Triple H and Stephanie McMahon and I have to admit that this PPV does a good job of portraying Kurt Angle as a bit of creep. I will admit that this show does also do a good job of telling you what the other storylines are that currently going on at this point through the use of video packages and so you don't really need to watch every single show up until this particular / very PPV event since it's very easy to work what the storylines that are currently being told are.
Now then just like with alot of sets / stages from the attitude era the set /stage for this show is very minimalistic with the set not really being impressive and there's nothing that reminds you of the summer season. Which for an event called Summerslam and for an event who's sets / stages are known for having the theme of summer presented in some way shape or form it's sad to see that the set / stage for this particular PPV / stage didn't really have anything that reminds you of the summer season or reminds you of anything that's do with summer at all.
As someone who grew up and thus watched the WWF around this time period I felt alot of nostalgia when watching this particular / very WWF PPV event. Since pretty much all of the wrestlers that are competing on this show are all wrestlers that I grew up watching and so for me at least watching this show particular / very WWF PPV event made me feel like I was a ten year old again and that for me any ways / at least was a very great feeling to have since we all nearly always get into wrestling when we are around ten years old.
There was no way that I could review this PPV event and not talk about the fall that Shane McMahon takes because my god is that a cool looking fall. Just everything little thing about that fall was just perfect with my only real gripe that they don't show the impact of the fall when it actually happens which I honestly do feel would have helped make what is an average match at best seem even better at in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then there are technically two women's matches with the better one of the two being the Eddie Guerrero and Chyna Vs Val Venis and Trish Stratus. This is simply because the other women's match that's on this show is The Kat Vs Terri Runnels in a stinkface match I get that the WWF didn't really think that highly of womens wrestling back in the early 2000's but anything would have been then The Kat Vs Terri Runnels.
Nothing is ever going to beat watching Chyna compete when she was in her prime simply because Chyna really could wrestle and it makes sense to have Trish Stratus fight her because at this point in her career Trish Stratus was just getting into wrestling more then what she did when she was paired with Test & Albert. Altho I do admit to laughing me a*s of during the Eddie Guerrero and Chyna Vs Val Venis and Trish Stratus match simply because you get to hear what sounds like Val Venis swear quite freaking loudly altho i will admit that the Eddie Guerrero and Chyna Vs Val Venis and Trish Stratus match ended rather quickly with very little to no actual build up to the actual finish of the actual match in question.
Now then I said at the start of the review that I had some personal history with this particular / very WWF PPV event and well i wasn't kidding at all. Since this was the first ever American WWF PPV that I actually watched live I had seen the UK exclusive PPV shows that were broadcast but just simply due to when the American PPVS would air over here in the UK I never got to watch one live since I was ten years old at the time that this PPV was broadcast but as fate would have it on the exact day that this PPV was being broadcast me and younger / little brother were going to have a sleep over at my cousins and my uncle let all three of us stay up until the very early morning to watch this entire PPV live which we did but we regretted it the next day tho.
Now then this particular WWF PPV event has a grand total running time of two hours and forty minuets and forty one seconds which I personally felt was the right amount of time for this particular / very WWF PPV event. Altho I do wish that most of the matches that are featured / presented to us on this particular / very WWF PPV could have been longer since the show had the running time and so they very easily could have made some matches alot longer if they really wanted to.
Now then since this is a wrestling show and there is wrestling matches on this actual show it only makes sense that I now talk about / cover the actual wrestling that's featured / presented to us on this actual classic WWF PPV and well apart from the The Kat Vs Terri Runnels. The matches that are on this show are pretty decent with pretty much all of the performers that are performing in the matches in question coming of looking really good with the one very bad wrestling match being the The Kat Vs Terri Runnels which is just there for reasons as far as I can tell and it's just a pain in a*s to sit through and if i'm being honest this match should have been cut and the time saved from cutting this match should have been allocated to over better matches that are on this classic WWF PPV card in my opinon anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really decent show and it's a show that i'm glad that I got to relive however this really isn't a perfect. Since as you can tell by my review there are are somethings that are in this show that just aren't needed and it's those exact same things that let this show down and that keep this show from being as good as it possibly can be. Now then since i've talked both of the good and as well as both of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review that means that this show gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this very well then boys and girls I personally got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page from Google Images. With my personally preferred website to get images from this particular classic WWF PPV event being the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page just simply because the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page had alot more images that are fairly high in quality and that are fairly high definition which simply wasn't always the case when it came to Google Images.