The 5 Outcomes We Need to See at WWE SummerSlam 2024

The outcomes of any given WWE Premium Dwell Occasion can in the end decide its general success. They’ll put an exclamation level on a so-so present and ship followers residence blissful or they’ll take an in any other case glorious present and drag it down into mediocrity.

SummerSlam is among the firm’s most essential reveals of any 12 months and thus, the outcomes are accentuated in methods they don’t seem to be on lesser vital occasions.

Forward of the Aug. 3 extravaganza in Cleveland, discover out which ends are those we most need to see out of wrestling’s most outstanding promotion and why with this preview of the present.

Bayley has had a somewhat subdued reign as WWE ladies’s champion, with profitable title defenses in opposition to Naomi and Tiffany Stratton, however no actual earth-shattering storyline to talk of.

Others have been emphasised whereas she pops up from time to time to remind everybody that she is, in actual fact, the champion.

That has modified just lately as WWE’s inventive staff has highlighted the rivalry between her and Nia Jax forward of their SummerSlam conflict, during which the Queen of the Ring will problem for the highest prize within the ladies’s division on SmackDown.

Jax feels just like the Vader to Bayley’s Sting as a result of she is larger, stronger, and nastier than the babyface and will simply womanhandle her en path to a decisive victory. However Bayley has coronary heart, which has typically fueled babyfaces to big-time wins.

That second situation is the most effective match for this explicit feud as Bayley continues to win over followers because the powerful, resilient babyface who by no means quits and in the end slays her competitors.

Till, that’s, she somebody takes benefit of her weakened state.

Somebody with a assured title alternative that they’ll make the most of at any time.

Tiffany Stratton sneakily defeating a weakened Bayley for the title by cashing in Cash within the Financial institution is the right end result for a number of causes.

The younger star petitioned Jax to kind a staff together with her and this may be the right situation to show that Tiffy was utilizing the Irresistible Pressure to her profit. It will show there may be extra happening within the head of Stratton than self-centeredness and spoiled brattiness whereas additionally giving her one other potential opponent to keep watch over.

Extra importantly, it lets Bayley chase the title, one thing we didn’t get on the street to WrestleMania XL and her match with Iyo Sky.

That match was extra about proving herself and avenging the lack of pals and teammates in Harm CTRL than it was in regards to the championship. Pitting Bayley in opposition to Stratton and, doubtlessly, Jax all through the autumn will solely additional endear her to followers.

As sturdy as WWE’s inventive efforts have been, she is the one main babyface who has been underserved by the writing staff.

This might give her motivation and followers a cause to assist The Function Mannequin whereas presenting Stratton as a lead heel within the ladies’s division. She would have a reliable storyline behind her for the primary time since WrestleMania and would take heart stage as a substitute of wandering, ready for the subsequent problem to be decided.

It’s a story that advantages Bayley, somebody who ought to have been extra of a spotlight these final 4 months.

All indicators would seemingly level to Rhea Ripley obliterating Liv Morgan of their match for the Ladies’s World Championship at SummerSlam and whereas that’s the apropos finale to this ongoing storyline involving them, Dominik Mysterio, and The Judgment Day, their Aug. 3 match in Cleveland doesn’t really feel just like the concluding match in this system.

Ripley has solely been again for 2 weeks, Morgan is on the run of a lifetime, and several other elements that haven’t but reared their heads when it comes to the overarching story thus far.

We all know Morgan and Finn Bálor have some association, due to each being caught on digital camera associating prior to now. We all know Bálor took Morgan’s resort key and has shortly defended her to Damian Priest.

That chapter nonetheless has but to play out and seemingly wouldn’t if Ripley merely squashes Morgan.

That’s not to say that Morgan’s momentum is actually extinguished if she rolls into SummerSlam and is demolished in a one-sided match. In that situation, Ripley goes again to dominating and WWE loses out on one other potential star in that ladies’s division.

Morgan successful is the appropriate name as a result of it retains her red-hot, provides Ripley even additional revenge gas, and if dealt with appropriately, propels The Judgment Day storyline ahead.

On the heart of Damian Priest’s reign as champion has been the notion that he can not efficiently defend with out somebody or one thing altering the end result of his defenses.

He has repeatedly expressed his need for The Judgment Day to not become involved. Even after they hearken to their chief, CM Punk will get concerned, screws Drew McIntyre over, and enhances questions on his means to win on his personal.

At SummerSlam, he defends in opposition to the 2024 King of the Ring, Gunther, in a match that has felt just like the conclusion of his title reign from the second it was formally introduced.

Not solely is The Ring Common the superior wrestler, however The Judgment Day as we now have recognized it’s falling aside on the seams, with Bálor being extra vocal about his displeasure with Priest’s selections and the assertion that El Campeon doesn’t want his teammates as a lot as they want him.

That story thread coming to the floor and enjoying a key function on this match ought to result in Gunther’s win and the subsequent chapter within the Judgment Day story.

An end result that sees the challenger win the title by outlasting Priest and beating him clear within the heart of the ring, with out interference or any look from Bálor, JD McDonagh, Dominik Mysterio, and even Carlito, is the one this match and the story on the heart of it deserves.

There’s a path to Solo Sikoa vs. Roman Reigns that features the Undisputed WWE Championship that additionally entails The Rock and his promise to Cody Rhodes that their story was solely starting.

That’s not the trail WWE ought to take.

Rhodes outlasting Sikoa at SummerSlam as Reigns, Jimmy Uso, and even Jey thwarts exterior interference from the revamped Bloodline, is the appropriate name.

It permits The American Nightmare to wrap issues up with the faction with whom he has feuded for the final two years and transfer on to a program with somebody like Randy Orton, who took a giant beating by the hands of The Bloodline within the identify of backing his pal up,

Sikoa can then transfer onto the inevitable feud with the reunited OG Bloodline and the SmackDown model may have two principal occasion tales to characteristic each Friday evening.

It’s the finest end result and one which protects Sikoa from being uncovered in a task as champion that, pretty much as good as he has been so far on this incarnation of his story, he’s not prepared for.