This coming Sunday, the World Wrestling Entertainment group has scheduled a four-hour pay-per-view for their “SummerSlam 2015” event, and the main event features the legendary “Undertaker” facing off against Brock Lesnar as he looks to avenge his loss to Lesnar from 19 months ago at Wrestlemania.
The odds for the Lesnar-Undertaker match have been up at the books for several weeks, and with the event now just days away, the odds are up at the books for the full show.
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Also featured at SummerSlam is the WWE World Title vs the WWE United States title bout, as World Champion Seth Rollins faces U.S. Champ John Cena with both titles on the line. Rollins has held the more prestigious of the two belts since this year’s Wrestlemania 31, and he has played the role of “bad guy” to the hilt.
A win for Cena would make him a 16-time WWE World Champion, tying him with the iconic Ric Flair for number of world title rings.
Also defending his belt is the massive Ryback, who is back after an absence due to a staff infection. He faces The Big Show and The Miz in a three-way bout where the winner goes home with the belt. Ryback being sidelined caused this match to be postponed and though it has largely become an afterthought, here we get the bout on PPV. Look for Ryback to score the victory and move on to a feud that will further elevate him.
The biggest news for the early part of the show is the appearance of actor Stephen Arnell in a WWE match. Arnell is known for the TV series “Arrow”. In the WWE, he has been involved in a verbal war with the eclectic Stardust. The WWE opted to team Arnell with the high flying Neville, who goes by the nickname “The man that gravity forgot” as the team faces Stardust and Wade “King” Barrett.
Also to be determined in “Fatal Four Way” bout is the WWE’s tag team titles as titleholders “The Prime Time Players” compete against Los Matadores, the Lucha Dragons and arch rivals and former champions The New Day.
A sleeper pick for “match of the night” features former NXT stars Cesaro and Kevin Owens facing off against each other in a singles bout. Owens has taken the WWE by storm, and he appears to be settling into a feud with Cesaro, the “Swiss Superman“. For his part, Cesaro has really blossomed as a singles competitor after his tag team partner Tyson Kidd was injured. Also slated for the early part of the card is the bout between the Bulgarian Brute Ruev as he faces the returning Dolph Ziggler, a man he put out of action earlier this year with a bruital attack using a crutch.
