WWE Super ShowDown 2019: 5 Overlooked Positives In The Undertaker/Goldberg Match

Super ShowDown was never going to be WWE's finest hour. Much like the previous three events of this nature, it was pretty obvious that it was essentially just a super-sized house show and, quite frankly, its final match card did little to convince fans otherwise.

So with the bar already set extremely low, the creative team thought "why not have two 50 year-old veterans face each other in the main event?" and, as they say, the rest is history - the good thing, however, is that The Undertaker and Goldberg aren't too.

The main event of Super ShowDown was marred in controversy due to the multiple botches in its closing stretch, which saw Goldberg collide with the mat during a Tombstone, nearly kill The Undertaker with an incredibly botched Jackhammer and botch the Tombstone-reversal sequence that was clearly supposed to finish the match. In the end, 'Taker called it and just put his concussed opponent down with a Chokeslam.

That being said, the match itself wasn't a total disaster as, before everything fell apart in the last few moments, it was shaping up to be quite an entertaining brawl.

Goldberg walking through a wall of sparks, The Undertaker rising through a bed of fog: there was something almost unearthly about watching these two legendary gladiators make their way to the ring at Super ShowDown that, even though the WWE Universe knew the match would never be what it once could have been, they were still in awe of the prospect of seeing these two superstars go toe-to-toe.

It's clear that WWE was well-aware that the entrances would, in all likelihood, be the best part of their collision, so they went all out - with both superstars even receiving a lot more fanfare than they usually would.

Goldberg may have missed a few of his pyro cues but not even that could stop his extended arrival from seeming larger-than-life. As for The Undertaker, all the classic scare tactics were resurrected for him, including caskets, druids and flaming torches. While this could have been down to the fact that 'The Phenom' didn't appear at WrestleMania this year (with the-powers-that-be deciding to give him a WrestleMania-like entrance here instead), all of these classic mind games certainly set this awe-inspiring arrival apart from his multitude of recent entrances.

While it's true that The Undertaker and Goldberg aren't quite the battle-ready warriors that they once were, that spine-tingling aura they were both renowned for was still very much present throughout their respective arrivals, adding a big fight-feel to an event that was sorely missing it.

On that note...