3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (Results & Review - 23 May)
A breezy but forgettable show with one really good match and a few head-scratching moments.
If WWE is going to insist on continuing to run these Saturday Night’s Main Event programs for the foreseeable future, they really should take stock of the product they’re presenting to fans.
This weekend’s offering could be generously described as pedestrian and inessential. If you missed this show, you don’t need to do more than scroll through WWE’s social media feeds for a few highlights and you’ll be caught up perfectly without missing anything important – save for maybe one exception.
The Intercontinental Championship match provided the big highlights for the night, with Penta and Ethan Page delivering a pretty solid effort. But beyond that, this could best be described as house show fare in front of a pretty engaged crowd. That doesn’t make it bad by any stretch, but too much of WWE programming feels inessential these days, so adding another two hours of content churn doesn’t exactly help matters.
If you were bored Saturday night and just wanted some light fare, you likely were entertained just fine. But if you went into SNME thinking there might be some earth-shattering (or at least noteworthy) development, you likely walked away feeling empty.
That seems to be the norm these days for Saturday Night’s Main Event, and that’s really a shame.
Let’s get to it…