Your Midweek Links: SummerSlam Is Nigh

"Please don't come back! Please don't come back!" Photo Credit: WWE.com

The biggest party of the summer is Sunday, but it's Wednesday. You still have days to prepare, but how will you spend your time before Takeover kicks off the festivities? Well, how about reading these links I'm providing to you? You'd like that, wouldn't you? Well, click 'em and read 'em! They're waiting for you to read them.

I wrote about how maybe if you're promoting a show not to oversell the building and cause a situation where fans feel unsafe. [The Wrestling Blog]

The G1 Climax has finished, and Elliot has the wrap-up on the final four shows in all their glory. [The Wrestling Blog]

The male gaze is strong in the world, but especially wrestling. Deathbysuzy asks male fans in the crowd to do better. [Medium]

SummerSlam on occasion has been better than WrestleMania, and David Austin Bumpus has 15 such occasions. [FanSided]

Takeover and SummerSlam are on the horizon, and Bob Garman knows which will be better, because NXT is schooling the main roster right now. [Camel Clutch Blog]

Ian Williams' Bruiseday examines how the crowd's reactions are literally its video game controller. [Waypoint on VICE]

Sawyer Paul recounts WWE's history with disavowing Hulk Hogan and hopes this time, it doesn't feature him returning to the company. [International Object]

Brady and Trask run down 2006's Vengeance pay-per-view, which was totally main evented by John Cena defending the WWE Championship against Sabu. Definitely. Scout's honor. [Wrestling With Words]

NON-WRESTLING #1: Hey, I went to Piccini in Ocean City, NJ for some righteous pizza, and you should too. Read why. [Holzerman Hungers]

NON-WRESTLING #2: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 is out on home video soon, but that hasn't stopped Elle Collins from dream casting Vol. 3. [SyFy Wire]