12 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Clash Of Champions 2019

by Scott Carlson

1. Rollins Slays The Monster

Seth Rollins Braun Strowman
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For whatever reason, Seth Rollins seems to have good matches against big, unstoppable monsters. He’s delivered twice this year against Brock Lesnar, and he and Braun Strowman had an energetic Universal Championship match Sunday night.

Rollins used his speed to his advantage, sticking and moving with offense like a series of superkicks, chop blocks and springboard knee strikes to keep Braun off-balance, while Strowman used his brute strength to take Seth down several times.

In the end, it took three stomps, a Pedigree and a fourth stomp to finally keep Strowman down for a 3 count. You could make the argument that WWE keeps failing to pull the trigger on Braun, but at this stage, it’s just safe to assume they’re not going to do it and just accept that he is who he is and he is where he is in the pecking order.

But overall, a good – albeit short – title match to close out the PPV.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.