5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (24 May - Results & Review)

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5. ‘As Saturday Night’s Main Event Rolls On…’

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Commercials are an unavoidable part of wrestling on network television, but there’s such a thing as too much of a bad thing.

You would think a two-hour show jammed with five matches would have a lot of wrestling, but there was less than 45 minutes of in-ring action, and a good chunk of those minutes were swallowed up by commercials. The opening match, a hot 13-minute tag bout pitting Sami Zayn and CM Punk against Seth Rollins and Bron Breakker, featured two ad breaks. The World Heavyweight Championship main event lasted less than 10 minutes, and a third was eaten up by commercials.

We know that WWE isn’t a wrestling-first company, but it’s really difficult to get into a match and sustain excitement when large chunks are gobbled up by ads and viewers have to sit there and wait for the action to resume.

This also felt more egregious than the breaks for Raw on Netflix, but that might just be perception.

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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.