SummerSlam (2012) HDTV

Promotion: WWE
Date: August 19, 2012
Attendance: 14,205
Venue: Staples Center
City: Los Angeles, California

The most highly promoted match on the card featured Triple H facing Brock Lesnar billed as "The Perfect Storm". On the April 30, 2012 episode of Raw, Lesnar attempted to renegotiate his contract with General Manager John Laurinaitis. Triple H (in his corporate role as Chief Operations Officer) intervened, and declared that the contract Lesnar had agreed to upon re-signing with WWE was still valid and thus Lesnar could not add any other clauses to it. This led to a brawl between Lesnar and Triple H resulting in the latter having his arm broken by Lesnar via the Kimura armbar.

The first match that aired from the show featured Chris Jericho and Dolph Ziggler. Jericho's rib injury came into play when it cost him to much time to cover Dolph after hitting him with a Frankensteiner off the top rope. Dolph was very close to victory after catching Chris with his knees when he tried for the Lionsault and then hit the Zig Zag. After kicking out at 2, Chris hit Ziggler with the Codebreaker but the momentum from the move knocked him out of the ring. When he got back into the ring, Chris made Dolph tap out to the Walls of Jericho.

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