2. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet (Super Showdown)
Welcome to the last two matches. I’m actually going to try and keep these brief because they both make me SUPER cross, and endless whinging is not what christmas is all about. That’s what January is all about.
So, you’ve got two wrestlers, one is very big but also incredibly good at selling for quick smaller guys, and then you have a smaller guy who is also possibly the quickest of all guys.
You’re having them fight on what is essentially a glorified house show, Ricochet really needs a boost since losing the US title. Sure no one expects, or even really wants Ricochet to win, but 10 minutes of fun flips vs fun suplexes seems like a slam dunk.
90 seconds long. Ricochet doesn’t hit a single move, bye. Some suplexes, Ricochet picked up off the mat, F-5, plane home. Why?
To tell the story that Lesnar is strong? Never told that story I guess. All it did was make the guy who put on a stormer with Adam Cole at TakeOver, one half of the most recent Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic winners, look like a f**king joke.
Morale. Can’t buy it.
1. The Fiend vs Goldberg (Super Showdown)
F**k…. F**k. The best character in years, one who is specifically impervious to pain, and Goldberg beat him with a suplex, in Saudi Arabia.
Like, even putting that to one side, putting aside everything it says about the ass-backwards, short-term, nostalgia-poisoned way WWE conducts its business, it’s just an objectively terrible match.
Goldberg’s gassed after his first spear, he can’t even hit his own finishing move. Just. I think it comes down to a call that Michael Cole makes just after the pin.
“Turn back the clock,” he says “Goldberg is back”. But you can’t turn back the clock. That’s the f**king point of clocks.
As a match it’s dreadful, but as a handy easy-to-digest summation of everything wrong with the biggest wrestling company in the world, it really hits the spot.
And to all a good night.
3 years ago by Adam Blampied
@AdamTheBlampied
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