3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (Results & Review - 23 May)

4. Basic Heels

When it comes to the final match on Saturday Night’s Main Event, it really had a split personality depending on who was in charge.

The Vision is such a mediocre act as a tag team that it’s almost painful when they’re in control during a match. Logan Paul draws pretty good heat – thanks in part to Joe Hendry’s “Fire Logan Paul” song – but the actual ring work is about as basic as it gets. Large swaths of the World Tag Team Championship match were instantly forgettable, which is not a good look for your tag champs.

There is a glimmer of hope with Logan as a heel wrestler, as he seems to “get it” and knows how to ham it up to the crowd. But he’s still 40 matches into his wrestling career, with one-quarter of them coming this year, so he’s a work-in-progress. Austin Theory remains a “factory settings” wrestler, just kind of existing in the same mode and not really eliciting much from fans.

As a result, their matches – at least the parts they control – are dull, boosted only by fan reaction or how their opponents perform. Saturday provided a pretty clear dividing line between The Vision and the Street Profits, and the fact that The Vision left with the tag titles while being a barely passable tag act is bordering on criminial.

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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.