WWE SummerSlam 2017 Results: Biggest winners and losers

WWE Summerslam 2017 seemed like it could be a dodgy show blowing hot and cold all the way till the main event. The Fatal Fourway match between Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, Roman Reigns, and Samoa Joe for the WWE Universal Championship was just so god damned good that it pushed this pay per view into the realm of really good.

Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to save the superstars who got the short end of the stick in all the other matches. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't all bad. There was some really really good stuff, especially from the Monday Night Raw side of things, but there were also some questionable booking decisions — especially from the Smackdown Live side of things.

The unpredictable booking gave us some shock results and this resulted in some professional wrestlers coming out of The Biggest Party of the Summer looking like real stars while others fell flat.

So, without any further ado, here are the biggest winners and losers from WWE Summerslam 2017:

Loser #4 Enzo Amore

This one I'm not even mad about. Everything Enzo Amore does gets on my nerves and I was more than happy to see him get humiliated the way he was during the Big Cass vs Big Show match while he was locked in a shark cage above the ring.

After running his mouth for the entire duration of the bout, The Certified G stripped down to his boxers, rubbed himself with oil and escaped from the cage only to be KO'd by a devastating Big Boot from Cass.

It completely buried him and I loved every minute of it.

Winner #4 AJ Styles

There were a lot of fears that the inclusion of Shane McMahon could ruin the WWE United States Championship match between AJ Styles and Kevin Owens but despite having a little too much involvement from Shane, it proved to be a great match.

The Phenomenal One looked...well, phenomenal. KO put in a really good shift as well but this reminded us all that AJ is still very much the best wrestler on the entire WWE roster and when given the opportunity, he can make some real magic.

Loser #3 Rusev

Wow. I really wonder what Rusev did that has got WWE creative so mad at him. Going from a potential WWE Championship angle right after the Superstar Shakeup to losing a match in less than 30 seconds. The Bulgarian Brute has fallen on hard times indeed.

It will be impossible to take him seriously ever again after this. The pre-match beat down on Randy Orton looked promising but the one RKO loss crushed any chance of something significant coming his way going forward.

Winner #3 The Usos

One of the best kickoff show matches of all-time

Being put on the kickoff show could dishearten some performers and cause them to have lacklustre matches, but that certainly wasn't the case in the WWE Smackdown Live Tag Team Championship match between The Usos and The New Day.

All the men looked spectacular and it was one of the matches of the night but Jimmy and Jey getting the hard fought victory has cemented them as one of the top tag teams in the WWE today. This match was one of the few bright spots that the blue brand had at WWE Summerslam 2017. It's a pity it was relegated to the undercard.

Loser #2 Baron Corbin

Well, there goes another promising young superstar

In the space of 5 days, Baron Corbin has gone Mr Money in the Bank and future WWE Champion to a joke opponent losing to John Cena at WWE Summerslam 2017. It seems like his brash behaviour on Twitter has come back to bite him in the backside and the burial of The Lone Wolf is complete.

Cena just joked around for the entirety of the match and basically just finished off Corbin with a singular Attitude Adjustment. Those who were hoping this was a way to make Baron look meaner and more focused had those hopes well and truly dashed.

Winner #2 Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins

The Shield Reunion is probably the best piece of storytelling the WWE has done in a long time. At a time when both men were struggling as singles competitors, the creative team made the brave decision to put them together and wove a wonderful story around it.

The culmination of that story was for the Architect and the Lunatic Fringe to win the WWE Raw Tag Team Championships at WWE Summerslam 2017 from Sheamus and Cesaro and what a great match it was in the lead-up to that victory.

Loser #1 Shinsuke Nakamura

This was supposed to be Shinsuke Nakamura's crowning moment. The King of Strong Style has had a lukewarm start to his career on the WWE's main roster but a victory over Jinder Mahal to pick up the WWE Championship would ease all those pains.

Instead, we got a pretty bad match which ended the exact same way the Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton match ended - with a distraction from The Singh Brothers into a Khallas. Jinder even botched his finisher to add insult to injury. You gotta feel for Shinsuke after this match.

Winner #1 Braun Strowman

What can you say about Braun Strowman after that performance? He was the stand out star in an excellent main event and has become a guaranteed future World Champion on the back of that performance.

Braun Strowman is by far the biggest winner coming out of WWE Summerslam 2017.

Braun's performance was further enhanced as he wasn't pinned.

Lesnar picked up the win clean after an F-5 on Roman Reigns and that should set up their eventual encounter at Wrestlemania 34 as has been the rumoured plan for months.

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