WWE SummerSlam 2019: Live results, highlights and grades

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Bret Hart walked up to Seth Rollins and told him he would be watching the match.

Kofi Kingston (c) vs. Randy Orton – WWE Championship

The locked up and broke it off a few seconds later. Orton threw a piece of a pancake at Kofi. Kofi hit a clothesline out of the corner, dropping Orton. The fans chanted “Kofi’s stupid!” and “Randy sucks” to cheer for their respective favorites, and I love it. Orton shoved Kofi to the floor as he tried to dive off the top rope.

The story leading into this match was fantastic playing off the long running feud these two have had over the years with Randy being the main eventer and Kofi being the midcarder. Orton took credit for letting Kofi win the WWE Championship from Bryan, and I love it. Great heel work. Orton back suplexed Kofi on the announce table.Randy stepped on Kofi’s limbs repeatedly, but Kofi was able to hit a dive off the steps.

Randy dodged a dive off the apron and hit a back suplex onto the announce table again. Orton put Kofi on the top turnbuckle and went for a superplex, but Kofi fought him off and hit a diving Tornado DDT on Orton.Orton managed to hit a backbreaker, but Kofi kicked out. Kofi hit a stage dive off the top rope to the floor on Orton.

Kofi went back to the top rope and hit his flying crossbody. Orton managed to hit the middle rope DDT on Kofi as they came back in the ring. Orton tried for the RKO but Kofi reversed into a backslide, but Orton kicked out. Kofi went for Trouble in Paradise, but Orton ducked.

Kofi hit a kick in the corner and went for a crossbody, but Orton caught him with an RKO. Randy’s evil smile here was so great, but he couldn’t capitalize. Kofi rolled to the outside and Randy taunted Kofi’s family. The ref counted them out as this happened.

Result: Draw via Count Out

Rating: *** (3 stars)

I was on track to giving this four stars but the finish was horrible. It made zero sense. They were counted out just before they started brawling. Kofi then beat him up with a kendo stick and hit Trouble in Paradise.

This made the finish look even worse. Why book the match if you didn’t want to beat either guy? If you wanted to do the rematch next month, have Orton win and Kofi get his rematch.

But really, Orton wouldn’t have lost anything here losing. The finish completely sucked the crowd out of it and they booed Kofi out of the building because the finish sucked so badly. This was a complete failure. Orton did nothing other than talk to Kofi’s family, and Kofi started using weapons for no reason.