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 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.