WWE’s SummerSlam Kickoff event is happening today (Fri., Aug. 1) live at 5:00 p.m. Eastern in New Jersey.
These pre-premium live event pep rallys were called “press conferences” at one point, but because they weren’t actually press conferences — and because they now hold those after PLEs as part of the “Post Show” — they’re now Kickoffs. The pre-show program that used to be a Kickoff is now a “Countdown”. Those names seem to be sticking as we get further into the TKO Era of WWE, so hopefully you’re
starting to get used to them.
Not much in the way of details about who will be at today’s Kickoff (which is actually the second one they’ve done for SummerSlam, as they already held one in July at New York City’s Fanatics Fest). We usually get Michael Cole and an array of big names who will be on this weekend’s cards. They’re taping SmackDown in the Jersey in just a few hours too, so they’ll have lots of folks to choose from. Plus, Chief Creative Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque often shows up.
Join us at 5 p.m. ET and we’ll see who shows up together. Just click play on the video embedded at the top of this post.
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