3 massive WWE debuts fans need to see at SummerSlam

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, SummerSlam is formally right here, and followers have takes on who they wish to see seem and return on the Cleveland-based present.

A Roman Reigns return? Sure, guide it and set issues up for a Bloodline-Bloodline WarGames match in November. The Rock? Certain, deliver him alongside, too. Joe Hendry? The Hardy Boyz? Alexa Bliss? All of those concepts have various levels of plausibility and would recover from to various levels with the 50,000 or so followers anticipated at Cleveland Browns Stadium.

However hey, simply because some returns may very properly occur doesn’t suggest there could not be some most important roster debuts, too, as there are just a few wrestlers who may make a huge effect on the present in the event that they cost the ring throughout one match or one other, together with a super-sized member of the family of two present champions and a pair of indie darlings who’ve been linked to WWE for weeks.

3 shocking debuts WWE wants at SummerSlam

1. Hikuleo

Of all of the wrestlers who may debut for WWE at SummerSlam, the obvious addition needs to be Hikuleo, as he is already reportedly beneath contract with the promotion.

The youngest son of Haku, who joined the opposite Guerrillas of Future in New Japan Professional Wrestling earlier than all of them made their technique to WWE in 2024, Hikuleo is a 6-foot-8, 264-pound big who might lack in-ring expertise, having simply begun his in-ring profession again in 2016, however makes up for it aesthetically as a real blue enforcer who would even stand out within the “Land of Giants.”

Initially becoming a member of GOD in 2022 after starting his profession within the household faction, Bullet Membership, Hikuleo reportedly signed with WWE final month after being linked to the promotion just about since Tonga Loa got here to city at first of the summer time and has extensively been anticipated to affix the remainder of his members of the family within the new Bloodline.

May that occur at SummerSlam? Sure, Cody Rhodes did make his match Bloodline Guidelines, and consequently, something may occur, however which means the “American Nightmare” may have some backup in his nook too, together with a really properly revered tag staff from the indies who has been linked to WWE for months now.

2. Motor Metropolis Machine Weapons

If Rhodes decides he wants backup heading into his Bloodline Guidelines match with Solo Sikoa, be that towards the present Bloodline or a fair greater model of the faction with Hikuleo added to the ranks, he may simply flip to the Motor Metropolis Machine Weapons, Alex Shelley and Chris Cabin, for assist in the presumed most important occasion.

A pair of long-time stalwarts of Influence, Ring of Honor, New Japan, and darn close to each indie round, Shelley really labored some matches for NXT alongside Kushida because the Time Splitters again in 2020, of which he stated he had a unbelievable time in an interview with Fightful a yr after their run.

“I beloved it. I would fairly not focus on whether or not or not we have been going to go ahead with this as a result of it simply actually would not matter in the long term, proper? I actually appreciated it. I beloved it. They handled their athletes so properly, proper? They deal with their wrestlers like professional athletes. I’ve by no means seen something prefer it and I have been in wrestling virtually twenty years, which is loopy to say,” Shelley informed Fightful.

“The quantity of care they put into that is simply paramount. They actually, actually tried to deal with these folks’s well being and that is one thing I had by no means been witness to and I hope it is a change going ahead. I beloved teaming with Kushida. I beloved the Time Splitters with all my coronary heart. I believe issues might need been totally different although, had the pandemic not occurred.”

After telling followers at current indie dates that they might not return within the foreseeable future, the prospects of MSMG heading to WWE seem an increasing number of probably with every passing week they do not present up on AEW Dynamite, Rampage, or Collision. Even when serving as Rhodes’ seconds might not be their most popular presentation 20 years into their skilled wrestling profession, it positive beats going to NXT and will present the big-time payout that has alluded the duo up thus far.

*Bonus* The Nightmare Household 2.0?

Whereas not a person debut, what if the three wrestlers talked about above do not debut as foes however as an alternative as mates, with Rhodes filling out his personal four-man faction with Hikuleo because the Jacob Fatu-neutralizing heavy and the MSMG going to bat towards GOD, who need to ultimately change into a tag staff regardless of the “Samoan Wearwolf” presently holding one-half of the SmackDown Tag Staff Championships?

On paper, the concept is type of out of the field and throws water within the face of everybody’s favourite fantasy reserving selection, Roman Reigns, returning at SummerSlam with Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Paul Heyman, and possibly even Sami Zayn in his nook, but when that is not within the playing cards simply but, which it very properly may not be – what if Reigns wins the Royal Rumble and challenges future World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins as an alternative of Rhodes? – giving Rhodes his personal faction may produce attention-grabbing storyline implications, too, particularly when one of many members has sided towards his brothers earlier than and will theoretically activate the group and create one thing very attention-grabbing sooner or later, too.