10 Match Star Ratings For WWE Super ShowDown 2020

Ricochet is the hill to die on, lads. But don't bother.

Fiend Goldberg
WWE

You know, they told you this was going to happen.

They said in the build that Ricochet never stood a chance, he was too small, he'd need a miracle to win. Paul Heyman advised you of his spoiler warning. Goldberg outright said in the build that the Fiend's psychological tricks weren't gonna work on him. The Fiend was next, he said. He speared him out of his f*cking clown shoes last Friday. Goldberg famously doesn't work long matches that flatter his opponents. This was all foretold.

The winners of fairly turgid gauntlet matches aren't those announced ahead of and cleared for competition in the match itself. You know this. You should know this. Seth Rollins won a match he wasn't involved in not too long ago. This happened again at Super ShowDown, because of course it did. WWE ritually repeats the same finishes and the same mistakes and God bless you all, much like Kevin Owens, you just keep fighting. You have more stamina than Cain Velasquez, who, incidentally, will soon come back and squash WALTER or something.

And you didn't listen.

You never listen.

You're watching the wrong company.

You have been watching the wrong company for two decades.

You have Stockholm Syndrome.

And it is piss funny.

10. KICKOFF: The OC Vs. The Viking Raiders

Fiend Goldberg
WWE.com

This match existed.

Is there a match with less interest and purpose to it than the OC Vs. the Viking Raiders in February 2020?

The feud ended. The Viking Raiders won it, and we know that because they lost the RAW Tag Team Titles to Seth Rollins and Murphy subsequent to it. They must have. But it continued here, as every last f*cking thing rolls on, and it was decent, because the Viking Raiders are such a great team with a visceral style and chemistry. But it was ultimately forgettable fare you have seen several times already.

In much the same way as a classic pro wrestling match is a challenge to analyse - often, the only word is magic - there is an anti-magic quality to these Saudi Arabia matches. There's so little heat or excitement or story to them, and yes, an AEW match under these circumstances would have the same effect. In film circles, when an actor takes a job they don't give a toss about, they're doing it to buy a new pool. This is literally the case here, gauging by Karl Anderson's Twitter game.

Magic killer, indeed.

Can you remember who went over?

Star Rating: ★★½

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