6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Greatest Royal Rumble

by Scott Carlson

1. Ladder Match Delivers

The Miz Seth Rollins
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Midway through the Greatest Royal Rumble event, WWE delivered a high-impact, fast-paced match. To that point, the PPV mostly consisted of solid, if unspectacular matches.

The four-man ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship involved all the elements you expect from that sort of contest: false climbs, tipped ladders, normal moves amplified by using the ladder, etc. It was a pretty entertaining match in which each man actually looked pretty good and appeared like he could win the match.

The highlight came when Finn Balor was just a step away from reaching the title when Seth Rollins springboarded to the ladder and raced to the top to grab the belt away from Finn. It was a finish we don’t see often these days, and because of that, it worked really well, with Rollins looking like a champ rushing to retain, and Balor just getting bested.

Maybe there’s a singles rematch in the cards for these two, which would be just fine.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.