6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Clash At The Castle: Scotland (Results & Review)
Good action and questionable booking decisions mark WWE's first Scottish PLE.
WWE’s latest international PLE started off with so much promise and finished in a heavy rain of boos and anger from 11,000 Scottish fans, a scene more reminiscent of the Vince McMahon era than the current iteration of the company.
Clash at the Castle: Scotland featured a lean card of five matches, three of which boasted Scottish wrestlers to give fans plenty of reason to stay invested throughout the night, particularly with the main event of Drew McIntyre vying for the World Heavyweight Championship in what initially felt more like a coronation than a competition.
While Clash was a pretty good show overall, it was marred by sloppy wrestling in one match and questionable booking decisions in two others. Triple H has mostly been a logical, linear – if sometimes boring – booker when it comes to storytelling, and that’s generally a good thing. But he also sometimes takes far too long to get to a major development. Nowhere is this truer than the Intercontinental Championship feud between Sami Zayn and Chad Gable, which felt like it should have reached the next chapter Saturday night but instead just spun its wheels for another day.
Fans were heavily invested in McIntyre’s quest, but WWE had other plans, which led to a far less than favorable response from the crowd. It might be a minute before WWE heads back to Scotland. Still, there was plenty to like about this show, including a sweet home country moment for a tag team.
Let’s get to it…