5 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Stomping Grounds

4. Snoozer In A Steel Cage

Solph Ziggler Kofi Kingston Stomping Grounds
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If you were looking for the definition of a momentum-stopper, look no further than the WWE Championship match between Kofi Kingston and Dolph Ziggler.

Ziggler and Kingston had a dull, plodding title match, with restholds abounding. It’s tough to give a blow-by-blow, because the match was that dull. It’s unclear who to blame: Ziggler, whose motives for attacking Kofi in the first place were specious at best, or Kingston, whose reign has not exactly set the world on fire.

You could hear the silence at various points, with the crowd wanting to rally around Kingston, and they exploded when he dove out of the cage to win the match, but man, getting to that point was tough.

Thank God for caffeine.

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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.