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Looking back on a mediocre SummerSlam

Monday August 20, 2012 1:25 PM By Alfonso Castillo

Brock Lesnar reacts to his first round TKO

Photo credit: AP Photo/Eric Jamison

 It’s hard to be disappointed when you don’t have very high expectations. And so, I can’t say I was let down by last night’s SummerSlam—a show that was entirely unremarkable, but not surprisingly so.

 The hype for SummerSlam made it clear that this was as much a one-match show as any in history. WWE was counting on Brock Lesnar vs. Triple-H to pretty much single-handedly carry what...

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