12 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Clash Of Champions 2019

3. Too Much For One Night

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While it’s great to see all WWE titles getting spotlight time, it’s safe to say that having 10 championship matches, along with a grudge match, is just too much for one night.

It’s hard to force fans to care about every bout, and at times, even when the action was good, it was much quieter than you’d like for a PPV, especially a title match. (But again, 10 of 11 matches were title bouts.) Even if you discounted the two kickoff show contests, Clash still packed in more title matches than most WWE PPVs.

Surely, the company felt obligated to actually fulfill the PPV’s billing of all titles being up for grabs, but if they could have nixed one or two, it might have flowed a lot better. Booting the Cruiserweight Championship and Women’s Tag Team Championship matches and moving the Intercontinental Championship match to the kickoff show would have done wonder for the flow of the PPV.

But if you buckled down and enjoyed it, then good for you. It wasn’t bad by any stretch, but it could have benefited from some tinkering.

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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.