Last Monday night on RAW and last Tuesday night on SmackDown Live saw a few matches made official for next month’s WWE SummerSlam PPV Event. Last Monday night’s RAW saw Roman Reigns defeat Bobby Lashley to become the new #1 Contender for The WWE Universal Title. Reigns will get another title shot from Lesnar at the WWE SummerSlam. It was also announced on RAW that SummerSlam will see Seth Rollins get another shot at WWE Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler. It was also announced that Kevin Owens will take on “Mr. Monster in the Bank” Braun Strowman and if Owens wins then he will get The MITB Briefcase.
As previously reported, last Tuesday night on SmackDown Live saw Samoa Joe attack WWE Champion AJ Styles before signing the contract for their WWE Title Match at SummerSlam, making the match official. Last Tuesday night’s SmackDown Live also saw Becky Lynch defeat SmackDown Women’s Champion Carmella to make their SmackDown Women’s Title Match at SummerSlam official. General Manager Paige also made a Tag Team Title Tournament and last Tuesday night on SmackDown Live saw The New Day defeat SAnitY to advance to the next round where they will face either The Bar or The Usos and the winner of that will face The Bludgeon Brothers at SummerSlam. WWE SummerSlam takes place on August 19th live from The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
With these matches now known, below is the updated card along with some rumored matches for next month’s WWE SummerSlam PPV Event:
WWE Universal Title Match
– Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns
RAW Women’s Title Match
– Alexa Bliss (c) vs. Ronda Rousey
WWE Title Match
– AJ Styles (c) vs. Samoa Joe
SmackDown Women’s Title Match
– Carmella (c) vs. Becky Lynch
WWE Intercontinental Title Match
– Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Seth Rollins
SmackDown Tag Team Title Match
– The Bludgeon Brothers (Harper & Rowan) (c) vs. The New Day or The Usos or The Bar
– Braun Strowman vs. Kevin Owens (If Owens wins, he gets Strowman’s Money in the Bank Contract
The following are rumored matches for the PPV:
WWE United States Title Match (Triple Threat Match)
– Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Randy Orton vs. Jeff Hardy
RAW Tag Team Title Match (Triple Threat Match)
– The B-Team (Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel) (c) vs. The Deleters Of Worlds (“Woken” Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt) vs. The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder)
– Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz
– Sasha Banks vs. Bayley
– The Undertaker vs. John Cena