5 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Super Showdown 2019

by Scott Carlson

1. Payback Via Chairshot

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While we got yet another bait-and-switch Money in the Bank cash-in at Super Showdown, We’ll give this one positive marks because of how it came (or better yet, didn’t come) about.

Brock Lesnar came out after Seth Rollins was down and looked ready to cash in. He climbed into the ring with steel chair in hand, and his manager Paul Heyman followed. What happened next turned things sideways.

Heyman tripped and dropped the MITB briefcase, causing Lesnar to freeze for a few seconds. Rollins took advantage and hit a low blow (the contract had not been cashed in yet) and proceeded to unload with steel chairshots repeatedly before hitting a Stomp on the briefcase. This was a pretty clear callback to Raw on Monday, where Brock waffled Seth with a chair several times.

Rollins then left the ring with title in hand, while Brock was still dazed and bruised. Sure, WWE once again “lied” to fans, but this time, it was Rollins outsmarting his opponent and retaining his title rather than a heelish bait-and-switch routine again.

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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.