7 Ups And 4 Downs From Evolve 10th Anniversary

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4. Superkick Party

Remember the days when Shawn Michaels’ Sweet Chin Music superkick ended matches?

While we’ve seen a proliferation of superkicks in WWE in the years since Michaels retired (the Usos probably being the most prolific), when you’re using a half-dozen superkicks in a match, it’s not a good sign. Anthony Greene went to the superkick well a bunch in the opening match against Josh Briggs, with his opponent popping back up seconds later and continuing like it was nothing.

While the match itself was fine, seeing wrestlers shrug off moves that were finishers as little more than a punch is still a bit jarring and what some call “indy-riffic.”

At the same time, hey, this was an all-action match, so you can’t complain there. But we’ll note a small “down” here nonetheless.

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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.