Genre: Wrestling
Produced By: WWE
Format: Pay-Per-View
Date: August 17 2014
Location: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Attendance: 14,079
The 27th annual SummerSlam had a big-fight feel to it in the build-up, largely because the main event was a big fight. John Cena would be defending the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Brock Lesnar, who in his last match brought The Undertaker's undefeated Streak at WrestleMania to a shocking end at WM XXX. The vast majority of fans were predicting a Lesnar victory, simply because ending The Streak would have been a waste otherwise. And that's exactly what happened. However, the manner in which Brock became the WWE Champ for the first time in over a decade did raise eyebrows, and proved to be the most memorable aspect of an entertaining SummerSlam card.
After a Kick-Off Show match which saw Rob Van Dam pin Cesaro in the battle of the former Paul Heyman Guys (RVD back in the days of ECW; Cesaro, erm, a few weeks ago), the PPV began with a short speech by Hulk Hogan, who promoted the show that we were about to see and plugged the WWE Network. A bit strange and slightly disappointing compared to his opening segment at WrestleMania, but it's always cool to see the Hulkster, brother! Also, this would be the last WWE show to use the "old" logo (2002-2014) on the turnbuckles and the on-screen watermarks, and the first to use the "new" Network logo on almost everything else. Look out for it going forward and you'll know what I mean.
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