5 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (14 Dec - Results & Review)

Downs…

3. Inoffensive And Fun, But…

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Here’s the problem with a show like Saturday Night’s Main Event: nothing on the program was bad or offensive. However, for all the pomp, circumstance and nostalgia, the show was lacking some punch.

Consider there were three title matches, two of which conceivably could have had title changes, and instead the champs all retained. Drew McIntyre predictably won his match against Sami Zayn. And Chelsea Green had to be the heavy favorite against Michin to win the Women’s United States Championship.

None of these decisions were wrong, but the two-hour program didn’t produce a lasting image or moment that will go down in history. In six months, what moment from this episode will stand out? (There’s a bigger complaint in this vein to follow in a bit.) The action was decent to solid, but none of the matches were of a PLE-quality where you’d tell friends to they needed to see it.

WWE didn’t need to blow the doors off here and give away the farm, but the debut of the reboot could have benefited from an iconic moment to make it stand out and to make future Saturday Night’s Main Event episodes feel like can’t-miss programming.

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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.