5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Clash Of Champions 2020

5. Sooooo Sloooooow

We will get into the really bad part about the booking of the WWE Championship match, but this item focuses on the match itself, which was – in a word – slow.

The storyline going into the match was that Randy Orton had punted Drew McIntyre three times, fracturing his jaw, and then aggravated it with a steel chair and an RKO. Nevermind that Drew recovered enough to pay him back with three Claymore kicks a few weeks back.

The match Sunday night was just a plodding, boring affair, which is what you almost expect from a Randy Orton match that doesn’t have a good flow. Orton is a methodical wrestler, and if the match doesn’t have a good structure or someone pushing the pace, it will grind to a halt. An ambulance match – where you simply try to shove your opponent into the back of an ambulance and close the doors – is about the worst kind of match, because you simply beat on your opponent and try to incapacitate him enough to win.

Throw in that both men were supposedly coming in at less than 100% and you have a recipe for a snoozer. This didn’t make you think McIntyre is a solid champion. It made you grateful when it was over and that it wasn’t a Last Man Standing match (possibly the only thing that would have been worse).