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SummerSlam 2019 was billed as The Biggest Party of the Summer and it definitely didn't disappoint. Even though there was only one title change as part of the card, despite there being 12 matches, there were still some fantastic moments and many opportunities for WWE to create some drama.
As part of a weekend where NXT Takeover: Toronto stole the show on Saturday night, WWE had to step up their game for their main show of the weekend and they definitely did that. Seth Rollins became a two-time Universal Champion as part of last night's show, which interestingly puts him in an elite group with the man who he was able to defeat last night, Brock Lesnar.
There are a number of fantastic stats coming out of SummerSlam, but here are just five that the WWE Universe may have picked up on.
#5 Charlotte really is The Queen
Even though Trish Stratus remains winless at SummerSlam after being forced to submit by Charlotte Flair last night in Toronto, heading into the event, the former seven-time Women's Champion was undefeated in her hometown.
The Air Canada Center, which is now known as The Scotiabank Arena has been a great home for Stratus throughout her career, but last night was the first time she lost. The match between the two women was about who was the better female wrestler of their chosen era and Stratus had already declared that she would retire from in-ring competition following the match regardless of the result.
Charlotte is a nine-time Women's Champion and the fact that she was able to force Stratus to tap to The Figure Eight last night puts her into an elite group of her own, since there aren't many women who can say that they have forced the WWE Hall of Famer to tap out, especially in her hometown.
#4 Brock Lesnar creates history
Brock Lesnar is perhaps one of the most dominant forces in WWE history, and he has proved that throughout his venture to claim the Universal Championship over the past few years. The three-time Champion has created a number of records in recent years in his pursuit of the title.
Interestingly, last night Lesnar made history since he walked into SummerSlam for the third time and the third year in a row as the Champion. The title was only unveiled at SummerSlam back in 2016 when Finn Balor and Seth Rollins fought to become the inaugural Champion, but Lesnar was Champion by 2017.
He has since walked into SummerSlam and defended the title in a fatal four-way against Roman Reigns, Samoa Joe and Braun Strowman, against Roman Reigns back in 2018, and last night against Seth Rollins.
Whilst SummerSlam is definitely turning into Brock Lesnar's house, he has lost the title twice as part of his last two main events, which means that he may no longer see it as the mythical place where he first won the World Championship more than 17 years ago.
#3 The women ran the show in Toronto
Aside from Evolution last year when the women were given their own pay-per-view, last night's SummerSlam housed the most women's matches in WWE history. Interestingly, the Women's Tag Team Championships were on the line as part of the pre-show, where Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss were able to retain against The IIconics.
Becky Lynch later opened the main show in her Raw Women's Championship defense which was a submission match against Natalya, before Bayley was able to successfully defend her SmackDown Women's Championship in one of her toughest tests to date, as she took on Ember Moon.
The final women's match of the night saw Trish Stratus prove that she still had it in front of her hometown crowd when she went one-on-one with Charlotte Flair in a match that would allow the winner to walk out with bragging rights.
Considering there were 12 matches on the card, this means that the women made up one-third of the action in Toronto last night and for the first time, the WWE Universe is talking about the Women's Division today for all of the right reasons.
#2 Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins
Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins have publically declared that they are a real-life couple outside of the ring, but WWE has recently begun allowing the two stars to work together on WWE TV as well. Rollins and Lynch are the ideal power couple as Raw Women's Champion and Universal Champion and now both stars once again have their belts back around their waists following SummerSlam.
One interesting fact coming out of last night's show is the fact that Becky Lynch opened the event and was able to force Natalya to tap in their submission match, whilst Seth Rollins closed the show when he became Universal Champion against Brock Lesnar.
The roles were reversed just four months ago when Rollins opened WrestleMania in a match against Brock Lesnar where he lifted the Championship for the first time, before Becky Lynch was part of the main event against Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair where she was able to walk out as the first-ever SmackDown and Raw Women's Champion.
Obviously, her reign only lasted until Money in the Bank when Charlotte Flair took the SmackDown Women's Championship back, but it's nice that WWE has allowed the couple to reverse the roles at their two biggest events of the year.
It's also worth noting that Becky and Seth were the Royal Rumble winners this year as well, so WWE could have some huge plans for them at Survivor Series.
#1 Seth Rollins has his own unique stat
No one expected Seth Rollins to walk into SummerSlam last night and walk back out with the Universal Championship. Many members of the WWE Universe were concerned that Rollins may not have been able to walk out at all after the beating that he endured at the hands of Lesnar less than two weeks ago. But, somehow he dug down deep and was able to take the fight to The Beast.
This means that Rollins has now walked out of the last three SummerSlam events with three different Championships.
Back in 2017, he became a Raw Tag Team Champion when he was able to defeat The Bar alongside Dean Ambrose. Last year, he became Intercontinental Champion when he defeated Dolph Ziggler and this year he became Universal Champion after defeating Brock Lesnar in the main event.
It's also worth noting that he became United States Champion back in 2015 when he defeated John Cena, but was unsuccessful in his quest for gold back in 2016 since he came up short in a fantastic main event match against Finn Balor to be crowned the first-ever Universal Champion.
This means that Rollins has become a Grand Slam Champion at SummerSlam alone.
