4 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Super Showdown 2020

WCW is alive in the form of WWE's latest Saudi disaster show.

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What can you say about Super Showdown 2020? It happened.

Seriously though, this was an absolutely awful show: wrestling-wise, storyline-wise, entertainment value-wise. It was 3-1/2 hours of your day you’re not getting back. If the 40-minute opening gauntlet match debacle wasn’t enough to scare you off, you weren’t rewarded for your loyalty.

It’s as if WWE decided to test their audience: Would people put up with substandard wrestling and questionable booking decisions if they got a couple surprises and a ton of pyro?

Crown Jewel last year wasn’t that bad (6 ups, 8 downs), but this barely had anything redeemable. Matches that looked good or intriguing on paper were wrestled at half-speed or simply played for comedy. Ricochet was built up as an underdog and then was squashed in less than 90 seconds without landing a single offensive move. R-Truth beat two men by slipping on a banana peel – twice. A legend kicked off a potential WrestleMania feud by defeating his likely opponent in less than a minute.

And of course, there was the WWE Universal Championship match, which was a debacle unto itself, though there’s a possibility it’s more polarizing that some might think.

With all of that said, let’s get to it…

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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.