6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Clash At The Castle: Scotland (Results & Review)

Downs…

3. Sloppy Tag Team Action

Botches and mistakes will happen in professional wrestling, and there’s no purpose in mocking or insulting wrestlers who put their bodies on the line when they mess up. However, a sloppily-worked wrestling match still deserves criticism, as this is their chosen profession. And the Women’s Tag Team Championship match damn near fell apart again. And once again, it was Jade Cargill at the center of the sloppiness.

Cargill slipped off the top rope when trying to execute a springboard – no easy feat – but she and Shayna Baszler seemingly recovered okay. Then, Cargill seemingly stumbled and fell when delivering a boot while hitting a powerbomb, though they covered that fine too. But when Baszler locked in the Kirafuda Clutch, Jade started visibly tapping out so blatantly that the announcers were forced to point it out and then cover for it, saying the referee’s view was obstructed, so she didn’t see the tap-out.

Even Bianca Belair wasn’t immune, as she went for a 450 splash to break up the submission and overshot, hitting Baszler in the back with her knees instead of her body.

This is the second PLE in two-plus months where Cargill has had visible stumbles in the ring. By no means does that mean she’s not a tremendous talent with a bright future, but it also doesn’t help that WWE made a big show of sending her to the Performance Center to smooth the edges and polish her game after being in AEW, and she’s had some glaring missteps, like Saturday.

But that’s more of a criticism of WWE itself than Jade. Overall, she’s still great to watch and should only get better.