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WrestlingCageside Seats6/30/20261 min read

WWE sold fans one thing, now it’s delivering another

Oba Femi will face Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam instead of a challenging for a world title. | (Photo: WWE) Monday on Raw, Oba Femi put his guaranteed world title opportunity at SummerSlam on hold to instead settle his feud with Brock Lesnar inside Hell in a Cell. I’m not going to critique the booking so much as I’m going to call WWE out for breaking one of its biggest advertised promises. Part of the selling point of last Saturday’s Night of Champions was to see who would become King and Queen of the Ring and move on to SummerSlam for a world title match. Iyo Sky defeated Liv Morgan to become Queen, and will now face Morgan for the Women’s World Championship at WWE’s big summer show in August, as advertised. But fans who tuned into Night of Champions expecting the King of the Ring winner to earn a SummerSlam world title match got shortchanged. If WWE abandons that stipulation, and it appears it will, then it completely undermines one of the event’s central selling points. This about-fa

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WWE sold fans one thing, now it’s delivering another

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