5 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (14 Dec - Results & Review)
Rhodes/Owens feud boils over and must continue, while a new champ is crowned.
Heading into Saturday, WWE put itself in an odd position: They had promised a night full of nostalgia, energy and high-profile matches, but they weren’t promising a WrestleMania-caliber show full of conclusive endings to several storylines.
To stick the landing, they needed to deliver on the nostalgia, keep the action rolling, and make sure the stories churned along. They achieved all of that with the first new Saturday Night’s Main Event in more than 16 years, putting forth five matches in a well-paced two-hour show. Fans saw a new champion crowned, titles defended and a grudge match that sucked the crowd in from the jump.
They perfectly measured Jesse “The Body” Ventura’s return to WWE, allowing him to be the heel commentator older fans remember and immediately putting half the current announcers to shame.
It really is difficult to judge SNME as anything other than a triumph, though future episodes’ success will depend on whether they can make those shows must-see affairs. The newness and nostalgia of the reboot bought WWE a lot of good grace Saturday night, but that won’t last forever.
Still, hats off to WWE for delivering a light, mostly entertaining program… with one major problem.
Let’s get to it…