10 Match Star Ratings For WWE Super ShowDown 2020

1. The Fiend Vs. Goldberg - Universal Title Match

Fiend Goldberg
WWE/XFL

Spear.

Spear.

Mandible.

Spear.

Mandible.

Spear.

Spear.

The sh*ttiest Jackhammer in all of creation.

But it wasn't the worst hammer in WWE history. That honour belongs to The Fiend Bray Wyatt's big stupid mallet, which made this absolutely awful squash match quite cathartic.

The Fiend wasn't over. Some people might have bought his merch, and he was r/SquaredCircle over, but he wasn't over over. His massive push coincided with tumbling fan-driven metrics. One of his matches received the most toxic reactions in the history of the company. The next generated mild "They're using weapons and that's always fun" pops. His TLC match with the Miz was met with almost complete silence. Daniel Bryan dragged a reaction from the crowd when those impossible triumphs peaked, but even he lost the crowd at points because there is no internal psychological logic to the Fiend's dumb horror movie matches. He's an unkillable monster who has to selectively sell for wrestling moves because this is wrestling.

One more time for the people in the back: not one Fiend match got over to an acceptable main event level.

On principle, this was awful, but how aren't you numb to this?

In execution, lol, this was sh*t. Goldberg is thrashed. There is no snap to his Spear anymore. Wyatt didn't so much get broken in half but fell down like a sack of potatoes. That big secret, teased by Ramblin' Rabbit, that was key to the Fiend's demise?

It was a suplex Tom Magee could have done a better job with lmao.

Star Rating:

-★★★★

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