6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Greatest Royal Rumble

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8. A Basic Opener

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Normally, a singles match between John Cena and Triple H would be a headliner for most PPVs. But for the Greatest Royal Rumble, it was the curtain-jerker.

That wasn’t a terrible call – get two of your top stars out there first to fire up the crowd – and the match itself wasn’t bad at all, but it was a very basic match between two all-timers. There was no backstory or basis for the match, which isn’t a required thing, other than the fact both were coming off losses at WrestleMania 34.

The match itself was something you’d expect for a house show main event, with Triple H and Cena trading and reversing finishers before Cena turned a crossface into an AA, then hit a slingshot and another AA for the pin.

We’ll count this as a negative if only because the first one-on-one meeting between these two in eight years just seemed a bit flat.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.