Undertaker is Huge Betting Favorite Over Brock Lesnar for WWE “SummerSlam”

The Undertaker is the huge betting favorite to defeat Brock Lesnar at WWE “SummerSlam” on Aug. 23 at the Barclays Center.

According to 5Dimes.com, an online Sportsbook betting site, Undertaker is at -560 to win over “The Beast Incarnate.” Which means if you bet $56 (American) on Undertaker, you would get $10 back. This is a huge jump from the opening line in late-July when it opened at a Pick ‘Em of -120 on both wrestlers.

Many wrestling industry insiders believe this is the second match in a three-match series that will lead to a final bout culminating at WrestleMania 32 in front of 100,00 plus people at AT&T Stadium. And in the WWE creative style of 50/50 booking, Undertaker should win this match after Lesnar defeated him at WrestleMania 30 in April of 2014 to set up the penultimate match to end this feud at WrestleMania 32.

Others, including WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross, would rather go a different direction. In his July 21 blog from his website jrsbarbq.com, Ross wrote:

Putting on my booking hat for a moment, I would take the Summer Slam match in a different direction than the predictable Undertaker wins which necessitates a ‘rubber match’ between the two in April 2016 in Texas at Wrestlemania. I suggest that Lesnar win at Summer Slam, perhaps by a bad call by a referee that might even be ‘arranged’ by Paul Heyman, which necessitates Taker disappearing for a few months only to return in vignette form with an bone chilling message. Taker declares that he will have his FINAL match at Wrestlemania Texas and that he wants Lesnar. Taker has to know if it’s simply not meant to be that he can’t beat Lesnar because Taker has always found away to defeat everyone else that he’s ever faced. He challenges Lesnar to be Taker’s ‘career assassin’ and fight the Deadman and essentially put Taker out of his pain and misery, figuratively.

“My career and my legacy will either live or die in Texas with 100,000 witnesses,” the Deadman would declare.

Editor’s Note

I agree with JR. Lesnar has not recorded a definitive win on a WWE pay-per-view or television since the “Royal Rumble” in January when he defeated Seth Rollins and John Cena in a Triple Threat match. Since then, he had a non-win at WrestleMania 31 and a no-decision at “Battleground.” Wrestling psychology 101 says once the babyface wins, the feud is over. And if Undertaker is the babyface, and he wins at “SummerSlam,” where is the money for a third match at Wrestlemania 32?