6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Bad Blood (Results & Review)

3. Should Have Lowered Expectations

WWE Bad Blood 2024 Damian Priest Finn Balor
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In his latter outings as World Heavyweight Champion, Damian Priest was starting to show an aptitude for being a big-match wrestler. And Finn Balor has always had that ability to deliver huge in the clutch.

Given those facts, the collision between the former Judgment Day teammates should have been a can’t-miss success. Instead, Priest and Balor turned in an average-at-best match. Damian had some good fire-up moments and overcame the odds to emerge victorious, but this was a Raw television match, not one of five matches on a PLE card allegedly blowing off a months-long feud.

Maybe it’s a function of expecting too much from both men. The match itself wasn’t bad, but given the quality of wrestling fans see on a weekly basis, this should have delivered more in this spot, and it didn’t.

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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.