5 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Crown Jewel 2022

4. Judgment Day Stands Tall

It’s funny how simplistic, straightforward booking can really work with no twists and turns.

Take Judgment Day, which has become a very transparently heel faction that uses its numbers edge to defeat challengers. Whether it’s a tag match with Dominik Mysterio paying dividends or Saturday’s six-man tag with Rhea Ripley being the deciding factor, Judgment Day has constantly fallen back on outside interference to win.

What makes it work is that everyone acknowledges it: the announcers and the opponents alike. The OC has called it the Rhea problem, noting that they need to do something to counter it, but they’ve been unable to figure it out yet.

And really, that’s the story here: What will the OC – or any group, really – do to counter Ripley? WWE isn’t going to sanction a man attacking a woman deliberately, so it’s going to have to be a woman who steps up, perhaps a Beth Phoenix.

And when that happens, it’ll hopefully pop the crowd something fierce to see Rhea finally get her comeuppance and Judgment Day to finally meet their match. See? Simple, straightforward storytelling, and it could work really well.