5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Super Show-Down

2. Short (Match) People

AJ Styles looked on with a smile as he stood awkwardly by the monitor as Daniel Bryan celebrated victory over The Miz. He was the only one with any emotion as the company somehow managed to silence 70,000 fans with a moment audiences once would have rioted for.

Two Royal Rumbles were ruined by an crowd's thirst for Bryan getting a shot at the big one, but half the Melbourne crowd hadn't even returned from their toilet breaks when Miz got rolled up in a pathetically short 2:25.

There's rarely a logical explanation for much of what WWE do these days, but this match failed as both a payoff and a continuation depending on either expectation of it. Bryan's victory was as neatly packaged as his winning cradle, with a Crown Jewel title match graphic firing up before his music had even stopped playing.

It is equal parts infuriating and f*cking impossible to predict why this organisation does what it does sometimes, but unless the group needed to wrap things for a local curfew, a conclusion this dispiriting is completely without merit in the Network era. That they have the temerity to dedicate so much time some of their most boring main roster stars most weeks is bad enough, let alone when a rare deprivation impact two of the most important cogs in this broken machine.