4 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Super Showdown 2020

3. What A Waste Of The Fiend

WWE Super ShowDown 2020 Goldberg The Fiend Bray Wyatt
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So after months upon months of building up The Fiend as this mysterious, unbeatable monster who ran over Seth Rollins and Daniel Bryan and took out numerous Hall-of-Famers, Bray Wyatt fell to Goldberg in less than 3 minutes.

Four spears and one Jackhammer spelled the end for a guy who survived countless curbstomps and various hardware to win the WWE Universal Championship in Saudi Arabia last fall. But hey, it’s WrestleMania season, and Fiend just isn’t what you’d call WrestleMania main event material, pal.

It’s possible Fiend recovers and still has a successful run in WWE, but to spend all this time building a guy up to have a semi-retired 53-year-old wrestler essentially squash him is just insulting. And WWE wonders why it can't build new stars...

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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.