10 Match Star Ratings For WWE Super ShowDown 2020
6. Seth Rollins & Murphy Vs. The Street Profits
A perversely entertaining show at critical points, elsewhere, Super ShowDown bled into itself by presenting too many matches with the same back-and-forth heat-driven structure, the same duration, the same level of interest, the same style.
There was no heft to the story. They did the customary opposing-partners-face-off thing on RAW, of course, but that barely counts. Montez Ford has something. That is a hot take. But where he shows it in the U.S. with his absorbing charisma, he had to tell it at Super ShowDown with overt crowd appeals, which while understandable was sad to see. His facial expressions were a bit too over-the-top to take seriously at points.
The camera work was sh*tty: the one time WWE finally rested on a single image is when they should have cut away, which was emblematic of a night on which they got nothing right. The timing wasn't great, either - Murphy telegraphed his cutoff - but, and here's the refrain, the fans weren't invested. They wouldn't have cared, had it looked perfect, like Angelo Dawkins had been wronged at the last, dying second.
They reacted to the stars of the '90s and didn't reacted to slow-downed versions of WWE's hardly banging in-house style.
Star Rating: ★★½