5 Ups & 2 Downs From WWE King And Queen Of The Ring (Results & Review)

1. On Two Different Pages

Maybe it’s a bit unfair, but fans and critics should expect a certain level of quality when it comes to certain wrestlers who have proven themselves time and time again. It doesn’t mean they get berated for having an off night, but a mediocre performance shouldn’t be passed off as perfectly fine, especially during a PLE.

Becky Lynch is one of those wrestlers with a high floor for her matches. That’s why her Women’s World Championship match against Liv Morgan is receiving a “down” here. Their show-opening battle took a good while to get going and seemed to be all over the place, just not connecting between the sequences. At one point, after a particularly clumsy spot in the corner, Michael Cole asked if the wrestlers could be suffering from jetlag.

Even the presence of Dominik Mysterio felt riveted onto the match and didn’t really flow with everything else, with Becky looking around for Dom while applying the Disarm-Her, and then the DDT on the steel chair looking particularly fake, with Lynch feeding her head to Morgan.

One has to hope this isn’t an omen for Liv, who has shown she can deliver in the ring but also can turn in mediocre performances. She should get an opportunity to prove herself a worthy champ, but this series of moves functioning as a match wasn’t the best example.