8 Match Star Ratings For WWE Clash Of Champions 2020

8. KICKOFF: Cesaro & Shinsuke Nakamura Vs. Lucha House Party - SmackDown Tag Team Title Match

A Kickoff match and all the "just there" quality it tends to entail, Cesaro was nonetheless great value in his early heat spot, slamming and nope-ing Lince Dorado down to the canvas with a delightful get-f*cked shove.

The comeback stretched suspension of disbelief somewhat - Dorado and Kalisto didn't build to the high spots like a sense of belief fired them up, Cesaro just sold as if very easily removed from his feet - but Shinsuke Nakamura has taken to laying his kicks in again, which briefly jolted your writer awake from the mandated autopilot tempo. Elevated slightly above that "just there" flavour of a desperately familiar undercard through the sheer talent of the personnel involved, this was still "just there" as yet another chapter of the fifth never-ending programme on an eight-match card.

Cesaro must have grown similarly bored because he sprinted over to the apron and kicked Kalisto flush in the temple to remove him from it.

It all heated up when Kalisto hit the hot tag, at least in terms of pace, but deeply basic lucha things relative to the scene is always such a hard sell when you know what it is you're not getting.

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Star Rating: ★★★