Braun Strowman / Adam Scherr vs. Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe vs. Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship, from WWE Summerslam 2017

There are multitudinous problems with WWE, problems other wrestling organizations have built their followings around addressing, but to date, nobody does “BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPING MEAT” as well as WWE does (well, can). The announcers put this over as a kaiju battle over a proper wrestling match and the competitors go along with it, even going as far as to destroy the scenery in service of damaging their foes, and the result is one of WWE’s most underappreciated main events of at least the past decade. That might have to do with the two-hundred-and-ten minutes of show that preceded this.

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