5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Super Show-Down
2. MurphyMania
'Murphy's Law' was thankfully nothing more than a cute finisher name as the former NXT also-ran completed his immensely satisfying redemptive arc thus year with his biggest win on the biggest night of his career.
Not content with just being Alexa Bliss' other half marooned on the developmental brand, Murphy bounded onto 205 Live in early 2018 and was unduly overlooked for a WrestleMania Cruiserweight Title tournament final eventually won by a Cedric Alexander determined to play spoiler on his massively popular return home.
It wasn't to be. After a Cruiserweight Championship match that dealt exclusively in boy-popping spots akin to the WCW version of the division rather than the tame and tepid tosh on Tuesday Nights, Murphy's score was a welcome case of everything that possibly could go right going very right indeed.
WWE is not the dream factory it once was (and still, realistically, should be). It seems glib to celebrate such simple pleasures on a show that once engineered them on a near-weekly basis, but Murphy's win brought tears to his own eyes and fans to their feet - these were clear feelings of relief, as well as elation and celebration.