7 Biggest Missed Opportunities From WWE Super ShowDown 2019

What could have been...

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The superstars of Raw and SmackDown took to the stage in Jeddah's King Abdullah International Stadium for WWE's second Super ShowDown event with, well, interesting results.

On a night that saw Brock Lesnar attempt to cash in his Money In The Bank contract, old rivals Triple H and Randy Orton renewed their nearly two-decade old rivalry and Lars Sullivan laid waste to all three members of the Lucha House Party. However, the main event was the match that got everyone talking as veteran performers Goldberg and The Undertaker faced each other for the very first time.

If we've learned anything from the past year, it's that we shouldn't expect much from these kinds of events. Despite WWE's best efforts to market them as being equal to WrestleMania in terms of grandeur, it's clear that they are little more than glorified house shows.

Unfortunately, Super ShowDown did nothing to change that, with a series of dull matches reinforcing how unimportant these super-sized shows are when it comes to the product's overall continuity. Due to this, and just pure laziness on the creative team's part, the event was an often messy spectacle that just seemed like its sole mission was to baffle the WWE Universe.

7. Failure To Portray Itself As Anything Other Than A House Show

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Every time these super-sized international shows come around, Michael Cole does his absolute best to convince us that they are on par with WrestleMania. While that might seem true based on the massive arenas and aesthetically-pleasing staging, the creative team just never capitalises on the grandeur of the events, reducing them to nothing more than large-scale house shows.

Despite the criticism they faced after all three of their previous offerings, Super ShowDown was a classic example of how this company continues to learn absolutely nothing because, as so many of us already predicted, it was still just a glorified house show.

While the two headlining matches were never going to impact WWE's overall continuity, you would think that the rest of the card would. Yeah, well, unfortunately, you'd be wrong.

None of the defended championships changed hands and, to make matters worse, the creative team didn't even bother to make us think that there was ever a chance that they would as both Seth Rollins and Kofi Kingston had to defend their respective titles against challengers that were never realisitic threats.

Furthermore, if you're craving a real example of just how aware WWE is of Super ShowDown's lack of importance to the continuity, then look no further than Stomping Grounds - where those two pointless championship matches will now receive pointless rematches because, well, they gotta make them canon now, you know?

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Michael Patterson is an experienced writer with an affinity for all things film and TV. He may or may not have spent his childhood obsessing over WWE.