3 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (Results & Review)
Punk reaches the mountaintop... again. Jade shocks Stratton, and Dirty Dom escapes with his title.
On paper, WWE’s latest offering of Saturday Night’s Main Event reads as a fairly significant show. The company crowned a new World Heavyweight Champion, and separately, a title switched hands for just the third time in 41 editions of the program. However, Saturday’s show followed WWE’s trend of delivering a mixed bag of results, with two of the four matches falling short of expectations, one rating as passable, and one delivering a jolt to the system.
Unfortunately, one of the disappointments came in the main event for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship. Whether it’s Triple H’s desire to stick to fewer matches on the card, the belief that world title main events need to last at least 20 minutes, or a combination of the two, CM Punk versus Jey Uso ran nearly twice as long as needed, and it suffered as a result. A series of near-falls, finisher theft, and submission teases livened the closing moments, but that didn’t erase the excess.
At the other end of the spectrum, freshly turned Jade Cargill wasted no time in wresting the WWE Women’s Championship from Tiffany Stratton, a fat-free affair that was sudden, in the best sense of the word.
Overall, this was a breezy watch, mainly because of its relative short length (clocking in at less than two hours) and mostly competent wrestling, but nothing on Saturday Night’s Main Event truly stood out, outside of Jade steamrolling Stratton.
Let’s get to it…