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The WWE Championship match at SummerSlam is one of the biggest matches in the WWE calendar. Legendary WWE Championship matches at SummerSlam include The Rock vs Brock Lesnar, Stone Cold Steve Austin vs The Undertaker, John Cena vs Daniel Bryan and many more.This year, WWE Champion Drew McIntyre looks to add his name to those historic match ups.
So, who could the contender to the throne at this year's SummerSlam event be?
Drew McIntyre certainly has a plethora of opponents that he could potentially face at the biggest event of the summer. Let's take a closer look at who The Scottish Psychopath could defend his WWE Championship against at SummerSlam 2020.
#5 Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar not been seen on WWE programming since The Beast was defeated by Drew McIntyre in the main event of Night 2 of WrestleMania 36, losing his WWE Championship to Drew McIntyre in the process.
Post-WrestleMania, Drew McIntyre has been on the roll of his career. Picking up victories over the likes of Seth Rollins, Bobby Lashley, Dolph Ziggler and others, the current WWE Champion has a tonne of momentum.
However, Drew McIntyre has been vocal about his achievement of vanquishing The Beast at WrestleMania in April. Brock Lesnar's signature skull logo, with a sword piercing it, can be seen on Drew McIntyre's titantron as the WWE Champion makes his entrance every single week on RAW.
Pandemic aside, it is only a matter of time before Brock Lesnar once again returns to WWE and competes inside of a WWE ring. Many WWE fans are speculating that the time and place of Brock Lesnar's return will be SummerSlam inside of the WWE Performance Center.
Could SummerSlam bare witness to a WrestleMania 36 rematch? Could The Beast be out for redemption against the man who slayed him at the showcase of immortals in April?
#4 Kevin Owens
While Kevin Owens is a former WWE Universal Champion, he has yet to hold the WWE Championship during his WWE career.
Kevin Owens has been on and off of WWE television since defeating Seth Rollins at WrestleMania in April. Firstly due to an ankle injury suffered at the event and then due concerns about safety during the ongoing worldwide pandemic. This has caused KO to lose a bit of momentum on Monday Night RAW in recent months.
However, a program against the current WWE Champion Drew McIntyre, heading into SummerSlam, would be the perfect way for Kevin Owens to propel back into the main event scene.
Kevin Owens and Drew McIntyre have only competed against each other a handful of times in WWE. This match pitting two fan favourites against one and other would be a WWE Championship match fitting for an event with the stature of SummerSlam.
Some fans were disappointed to see Seth Rollins get a WWE Championship opportunity against Drew McIntyre post-WrestleMania as Kevin Owens was the one who defeated The Monday Night Messiah at WrestleMania 36.
However, SummerSlam could be the perfect event to see this fresh pairing of Drew McIntyre vs Kevin Owens, and also grant KO the WWE Championship opportunity that many fans believe that he deserves.
#3 MVP
Drew McIntyre and MVP have had quite the history in 2020. After The Scottish Psychopath won the 2020 men's Royal Rumble in January, eliminating WWE Champion Brock Lesnar in the process, McIntyre was a guest in MVP's V.I.P Lounge on Monday Night RAW.
MVP would offer his business and managerial expertise to Drew McIntyre, insisting that his skills would facilitate a WWE Championship win against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania and future success for McIntyre. Drew McIntyre would politely decline MVP's offer and then, not so politely, hit MVP with the Claymore kick.
Fast forward to June and MVP would look to seek retribution against the now-WWE Champion Drew McIntyre through the use of his latest client Bobby Lashley. Under MVP's guidance, Bobby Lashley became the number one contender for the WWE Championship and faced Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship at the Backlash pay per view.
Unfortunately for MVP, Bobby Lashley was unsuccessful and was defeated by Drew McIntyre after some outside distraction by Lashley's now-ex-wife Lana.
Not one to let defeat set him back, MVP is now the self-appointed "real WWE United States Champion" and the leader of the stable known as The Hurt Business on Monday Night RAW. With his associates Bobby Lashley and 24/7 Champion Shelton Benjamin by his side, could MVP be next to challenge Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam?
A feud that has it's roots all of the way back to January of this year, a showdown between Drew McIntyre and MVP for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam could be seen as a bookend to the reoccurring storyline and confrontations between The Scottish Psychopath and Ballin' United States Champion.
#2 Seth Rollins
Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins have already had a deep and personal rivalry in 2020. After Drew McIntyre achieved the biggest accomplishment of his career by defeating Brock Lesnar to capture the WWE Championship at WrestleMania, his next pay per view opponent was Seth Rollins.
The Monday Night Messiah would be righteous is quest for improving Monday Night RAW, a quest and vision that did not include Drew McIntyre as WWE Champion.
Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre would have their eventual showdown at the WWE Money in the Bank pay per view event in May. Unfortunately for Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre would leave Money in the Bank still WWE Champion, pinning The Monday Night Messiah after connecting with the Claymore kick.
Once the match was said and done, the WWE Champion offered a handshake to Seth Rollins, which Rollins reluctantly accepted. Therefore, many assumed this was the end of the Drew McIntyre vs Seth Rollins feud.
However, since then, Seth Rollins' tyranny on Monday Night RAW has not shown any signs of declining. In fact, the loss to Drew McIntyre at Money in the Bank sent Seth Rollins into such a pit of despair that he attempted to permanently blind Rey Mysterio on RAW by pushing the master of the 619's eye into the corner of the steel ring steps.
Then, at The Horror Show at Extreme Rules, Seth Rollins would defeat Rey Mysterio in a "Eye for an Eye" match. The Monday Night Messiah once again pushed Mysterio's eye into the corner of the steps, removing Rey Mysterio's eye from it's socket and causing a globe luxation.
With so many members of the WWE Universe and RAW roster horrified at Seth Rollins' actions, perhaps it is up to the leader of Monday Night RAW, the WWE Champion Drew McIntyre, to end Seth Rollins' evil behaviour.
This could lead to a Money in the Bank rematch between Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins at SummerSlam where The Scottish Psychopath avenges what The Monday Night Messiah has done to the Mysterio family.
#1 Randy Orton
Drew McIntyre vs Randy Orton at SummerSlam could be seen by some members of the WWE Universe as a dream match. While Drew McIntyre has been on the rise this year, Randy Orton has been near unstoppable in 2020 so far. The Viper callously turned his back and attacked his long time friend Edge in January of 2020 as hasn't looked back since.
At the same time that Drew McIntyre was winning and defending the WWE Championship, Randy Orton has removed the likes of Matt Hardy, Edge, Christian and The Big Show from WWE television by either crushing their skull with a conchairto or caving it in with a vicious punt kick.
In addition to this, Randy Orton has recently realigned himself with his former Evolution stablemate and mentor, WWE Hall of Famer "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair. This partnership and subsequent destruction of WWE icons has allowed Randy Orton to once again dub himself as "The Legend Killer" in WWE. A moniker that Orton previously used during his early career with the company.
Because of this return to the Legend Killer character, Randy Orton has easily become the top heel on the Monday Night RAW roster. Therefore, at the biggest event of the summer, it only makes logical sense that the biggest heel on RAW would face off against the biggest babyface on RAW. Right now, the biggest babyface on Monday Night RAW is the WWE Champion Drew McIntyre.
A match between The Legend Killer and The Scottish Psychopath has been rumoured for SummerSlam. Should this match come to fruition, it could no doubt be an absolute classic, fitting for one of the biggest events on the WWE calendar.
