The Reason Aleister Black vs. Sami Zayn Was Pulled From SummerSlam

The reason as to why Aleister Black vs. Sami Zayn was pulled from the SummerSlam event was explained by Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer. Here is what he had to say:

“The Aleister Black and Sami Zayn match, the reason they did that [early] was when Vince showed up and he didn’t like SmackDown and he tore the whole show apart, when he was done with the stuff he didn’t like and then changing the main event, they had an hour to fill so one of the ideas fro that hour was ‘well, what can we do in this hour?’ — ‘Let’s put the Aleister Black and Sami Zayn on’ — so that’s one of the things they did to fill the hole so they took that off the pay-per-view so that’s the reason it’s off the pay-per-view.” 

He added:

“I was told that the card is completely fluid because right now there’s eleven matches. There could be matches taken away, matches added. The only thing is I don’t expect of the eleven [we have] they’ll take away, but Drew McIntyre vs Cedric Alexander is still as far as I know still on the card, but not announced. Who knows?”