4 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Clash Of Champions 2017

4. Not For Wrestling Fans

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A PPV with Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, the Usos, Charlotte Flair, AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, New Day, Bobby Roode and Chad Gable on the card sounds like it should produce a few really good matches, but you’d be wrong.

Aside from the triple threat United States Championship match, much of the PPV was dominated by mediocre or subpar wrestling. In a couple cases, match stipulations or rules dragged the action down. One of only two straight wrestling matches on the main card was a 90-second squash, and the other involved Jinder Mahal.

If you’re the type of person who wants to be up on you WWE PPVs for the year, then you’ll be happy to know this clocked in at about two-and-a-half hours. Otherwise, you would have been in for a long night.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.