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It was literally business as usual this past week at WWE's Q3 quarterly conference call, but Vince McMahon pulled no punches when describing SummerSlam's poor performance. Last year, a SummerSlam pay-per-view highlighted by Triple H and Brock Lesnar in the main event drew 358,000.
This year's WrestleMania of the summer drew a buyrate of only 296,000. 2013's SummerSlam was headlined by up-and-coming Daniel Bryan as he took on John Cena, who played the Goliath role.
When asked about the drop in performance, McMahon said, quite plainly, "They didn't buy the attraction, and these PPVs are attraction-based."
Vince went on to give a more blunt analysis of WWE's big-four pay-per-view, reiterating "SummerSlam was not the right attraction. That was a swing and a miss." - ALFRED KONUWA - NOVEMBER 4, 2013 (Bleacher Report)
This year's WrestleMania of the summer drew a buyrate of only 296,000. 2013's SummerSlam was headlined by up-and-coming Daniel Bryan as he took on John Cena, who played the Goliath role.
When asked about the drop in performance, McMahon said, quite plainly, "They didn't buy the attraction, and these PPVs are attraction-based."
Vince went on to give a more blunt analysis of WWE's big-four pay-per-view, reiterating "SummerSlam was not the right attraction. That was a swing and a miss." - ALFRED KONUWA - NOVEMBER 4, 2013 (Bleacher Report)
