Here is your fight size update ahead of WWE SummerSlam on Saturday, August 5, 2023.
- WWE Hall of Famer Kid Rock is featured in the cold open for this year's SummerSlam. Check out the full video above.
- The WWE SummerSlam card is stacked, and unfortunately, this meant that there was no room for the Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus match that had been building to the event. Those two legends will instead face off on the August 14 episode of Monday Night RAW from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Becky Lynch took to social media on Saturday morning to say that she was making lemonade with the lemons that life had handed her.
Making lemonade with all these lemons I’ve been given.
— Rebecca Quin (@BeckyLynchWWE) August 5, 2023
What’s everyone else up to this weekend?! pic.twitter.com/DADLcT9XU1
- Fans can find more information on the absence of Trish Stratus versus Becky Lynch from the SummerSlam card on Fightful Select.
- The Daily Star recently put out a feature on Kaitlyn, former WWE Divas Champion.
- Look back at this week’s SmackDown to revisit the show’s most incredible and exciting moments.
- WWE Superstar LA Knight spoke with KSDK news all about WWE and WWE SummerSlam.
- Cody Rhodes let Us Weekly in on several little-known facts about himself, including his biggest pet peeves, such as people cursing loudly on a plane and bad salesmen.
- As is customary with major Premium Live Events, several top WWE Superstars have been making the media rounds. Chris Van Vliet recently caught up with Baron Corbin, who is open to going full Bam Bam Bigelow and getting his head tattooed.
- Finn Balor spoke with Graham "GSM" Matthews about challenging Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship at the event and how it compares to first facing Rollins seven years ago, becoming a locker room leader, when he found out about the crowd reaction to the unveiling of the Universal Championship at SummerSlam 2016, thoughts on Tottenham, and more.
- Logan Paul vs. Ricochet will open tonight's event. As Logan explained to Stephen A Smith on his podcast, WWE has granted Logan Paul the opportunity to go on early so that he can immediately hop on a jet and go see his brother fight Nate Diaz later in the evening. Fightful will have full coverage of the fight as well as SummerSlam.
- Sting is headed to Starrcast VI in Chicago.
- ICYMI: Sean Ross Sapp spoke with Cody Rhodes ahead of SummerSlam. Check out the whole interview here.
- Gunther recently spoke with Inside The Ropes ahead of SummerSlam and his Intercontinental Championship defense against Drew McIntyre
- Curious about when Roman Reigns may lose the WWE Universal Championship? Sean Ross Sapp recently explained what an insider said to him.
I outright asked a WWE higher up when Roman Reigns would lose the WWE Undisputed Championship for a story on https://t.co/jy8u4a7WDa.
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) August 5, 2023
"Whenever Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman fuckin' say"
Details behind what that means creatively, Cody, Zayn, WrestleMania shortly on Select pic.twitter.com/LFxV41IhR1
- Experience a collection of earth-shattering showdowns from The Biggest Event of the Summer, featuring Roman Reigns, Charlotte Flair, Seth “Freakin” Rollins, Becky Lynch, Cody Rhodes, Brock Lesnar, Bianca Belair and more.
- Pro Wrestling Journalism legend Bill Apter said he heard that Jimmy Uso is out of the hospital.
- Not only is tonight SummerSlam, but it is also AEW Saturday Collision. Get caught up with the Control Center below:
- During WWE's SummerSlam Media Day, The Angle Podcast's Joey Karni was able to chat with Ricochet ahead of his match with Logan Paul at SummerSlam. Ricochet discussed losing Braun Strowman to injury, transitioning back to a singles run, finally getting a major spot in WWE and at SummerSlam, being patient, things he admires about Logan Paul, and more.
- Ahead of The Biggest Event of the Summer in Detroit, Matt Camp, Ryan Pappolla, Sam Roberts and Kazeem Famuyide deliver their draft picks for the Ultimate SummerSlam matches.
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- Santos Escobar says karma is coming for Theory: SmackDown LowDown, Aug. 5, 2023
