6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Greatest Royal Rumble

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8. A Basic Opener

Triple H John Cena
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Normally, a singles match between John Cena and Triple H would be a headliner for most PPVs. But for the Greatest Royal Rumble, it was the curtain-jerker.

That wasn’t a terrible call – get two of your top stars out there first to fire up the crowd – and the match itself wasn’t bad at all, but it was a very basic match between two all-timers. There was no backstory or basis for the match, which isn’t a required thing, other than the fact both were coming off losses at WrestleMania 34.

The match itself was something you’d expect for a house show main event, with Triple H and Cena trading and reversing finishers before Cena turned a crossface into an AA, then hit a slingshot and another AA for the pin.

We’ll count this as a negative if only because the first one-on-one meeting between these two in eight years just seemed a bit flat.

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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.