Drew McIntyre retained his WWE Championship against Dolph Ziggler as expected and will most likely go on to hold the title for several more months – could be until at least January at the Royal Rumble 2021. In the meantime, Randy Orton will be a great challenger for McIntyre because a match like this at SummerSlam could put him over the hump to help legitimize his WWE Title reign. Randy Orton always has the ability to do that for opponents because he is so well respected and has been featured on WWE TV since 2002 (he is probably the most respected and legitimate opponent for anyone in WWE aside from Brock Lesnar in WWE right now).
While I am predicting McIntyre will retain against Orton, never count Orton out. He has not received a title opportunity in almost a year when he faced Kofi Kingston at a couple Pay-Per-Views around this time in 2019; and Randy has not actually been WWE Champion in about three years when he lost the title to Jinder Mahal at Backlash in May 2017.
It was very encouraging to see that July 27 was the first time it was actually palpable that Dominic Mysterio had a firm grip on the attention of the WWE universe. They were invested in what he was doing, and Seth Rollins also gets credit because he did the bulk of the talking (it is the heel’s job to get the audience invested, and Rollins and Mysterio both did an excellent job; this is massive for Dominic because it is the first time he has really gotten through to the audience.
Kairi Sane was officially written off TV this week so she can return home to Japan to be with her husband. She may not be gone forever, just for now. She seemed to be gaining a significant amount of comfort in the ring before her departure.