Well, Summerslam is now down in the record books. I forgot the potentially historic part of the show: it might be the final event carried by DirecTV, unless they renegotiate soon.

Still, if this was indeed the last PPV on this service, the WWF went out with a bang:

1. The PPV opened with Edge challenging Lance Storm for the Intercontinental title.
   
   This was a solid match, both wrestlers putting on a tremendous display. Far from just being curtain-jerkers (the first match), they put on a very entertaining show.



2. The six man match: Test and The Dudley Boyz against Spike and the APA was easily a throw-away match, but Spike bumped like a madman, his table spot hard to forget.



3. Chris Jericho against Rhyno was - amazingly, since Rhyno was in it - a great match! Some of the spots I'm not sure if they were blown, or if Jericho was selling getting beaten up. Still, it made his victory more sweet.



4. X-Pac beat Tajiri to re-unify both the WWF Light Heavyweight title and the WCW Cruiserweight title. I think the now-legendary columnist CRZ had it right: "X-Pac rarely jobs in singles matches.". It was a solid match, but that ending likely ticked off many more viewers than just myself.



5. The Hardcore title ladder match was just as I anticipated: RVD and Jeff Hardy gave us an incredible spotfest. You could see the setups for many of the spots, and Rob did blow one (his attempted top turnbuckle spinkick on Jeff) but it was still jaw-dropping action.



6. The Steel Cage WWF/WCW tag-team title match was incredibly brutal stuff. Kane and Undertaker are now "division killers" for both promotions, but Taker got to pound an empasis on the closing of the Diamond Dallas-Stalker storyline.



7. Kurt Angle got a screw-job DQ win over Stone Cold Steve Austin. This was an incredible brawl, with Kurt getting the night's crimson mask. With Unforgiven to be in his home of Philadelphia, I expected him to win the title there rather than at this event.



8. The Rock beat Booker-T for the WCW title. This was actually the least interesting match of the night, as the result was expected. What was a surprise was Rocky trying the majistral cradle, a move we've never seen from him.

In the most entertaining outside bits: Shawn Stasiak now has a running joke - literally - as the guy who always runs into things while trying to hit the Rock. I bet he wishes he had a less painful gimmick.

So it was an entertaining PPV, although the sheer number of talents unused reminded me how they need exposure soon.