4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (12 July - Results & Review)

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4. Exceeding Expectations

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event Jimmy Uso Solo Sikoa
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If you’re rating the Jimmy Uso/Solo Sikoa battle for the United States Championship, it probably won’t crack the top 10 of matches taking place between WWE and AEW this weekend.

However, given how bad this match could have been, Uso and Sikoa had a decent little match pitting the two brothers against one another for the first time. Jimmy dealt with the MFTs at ringside with a Whisper in the Wind corkscrew dive off the top, busted out an apron German suplex, and came close to winning his first singles title before Talla Tonga leveled him with a clothesline and Solo rolled him up for the pin – with an assist from Talla.

The result was never in doubt, but this could have been a total clunker. Instead, it was fine. And then there was the aftermath, which saw Jacob Fatu return to chase off the MFTs and stand tall, setting the stage not just for Fatu to recover his United States Championship, but also for a new chapter of Bloodline lore as WWE continues to mine the Samoan family tree for everything it can.

Still, this gets passing marks solely because expectations were low, and recasting this Temu Bloodline as a midcard stable of goofs lowers those expectations even more.

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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.