We’re now lower than per week away from SummerSlam 2025, and the cardboard is basically beginning to come collectively. There are twelve matches already locked in with the potential for extra to be added. I can’t wait, particularly after this previous Friday Night time SmackDown when head booker Triple H and WWE took an enormous step towards fixing an enormous WrestleMania 41 mistake followers are nonetheless mad about.
No, I’m not speaking about WrestleMania 41’s greatest mistake. The principle occasion very infamously didn’t embody The Rock however did embody Travis Scott in what turned out to be one of the poorly obtained segments in WWE historical past. The principle occasion rematch between Cody Rhodes and John Cena could attempt to do some retroactive harm management there, however finally, we received’t know till the match truly occurs. As a substitute, I’m speaking in regards to the match that wasn’t on the cardboard.
For the final 12 months or so, the SmackDown tag workforce division has been unbelievable. Greater than a half dozen groups have put important work into constructing actual storylines and placing on compelling matches. Followers simply assumed at the very least two of the groups could be rewarded with a well-deserved spot on the WrestleMania 41 card, however as a substitute, the Road Income vs Motor Metropolis Machine Weapons vs DIY was bizarrely relegated to the SmackDown after ‘Mania. Social media complained loudly and aggressively on the time, nevertheless it didn’t change something, as everybody concerned within the division was minimize from The Showcase Of The Immortals.
The choice appeared like a complicated mistake on the time, and it appeared even worse after the three groups placed on an all-time unbelievable Tables, Ladders and Chairs match on the SmackDown after ‘Mania. Many followers referred to as it among the best tag workforce matches they’d ever seen, and there was close to common settlement that it could have been among the best matches at ‘Mania 41 had it made the cardboard. Fortunately, it appears WWE is able to make up for its mistake.
On the finish of SmackDown, commissioner Nick Aldis introduced that this 12 months’s SummerSlam will characteristic a TLC match that features tag workforce champions The Wyatt Sicks defending towards DIY, The Road Income, Motor Metropolis Machine Weapons, Fraxium and Andrade and Rey Fénix. SummerSlam won’t be WrestleMania, nevertheless it’s universally thought of both the second or third most vital PLE of the 12 months, relying on how an individual feels in regards to the Royal Rumble. Making the cardboard is at all times an enormous achievement, and if the groups are in a position to pull off something just like the earlier TLC match at ‘Mania, it’ll go down as a primary web page profession spotlight for everybody concerned.
I’m an enormous believer in rewarding the folks doing good work on tv with matches at PLEs. The tag workforce division on SmackDown deserved a WrestleMania match for all they did to rehab the division. They didn’t get one, nevertheless it warms my coronary heart to see WWE making an attempt to make up for it with an enormous showcase at SummerSlam. Fingers crossed they’ll use it to proceed the momentum and present an enormous viewers how nice tag workforce wrestling will be.