7 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Clash At The Castle

1. Riddle Humiliated, Then Humbled

WWE Clash At The Castle Seth Rollins Matt Riddle
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We’re not saying the slighted and maligned babyface should always win a feud, but Matt Riddle losing his match against Seth Rollins at Clash at the Castle after being beaten down physically and verbally in the lead-up was deflating.

The match itself was good, but didn’t feel like a blood feud between two men who hated each other. (See Sheamus versus Gunther for a good example of how to hit each other when you hate someone.) Sure, they started with a brawl, but it soon settled into a normal, solid match between two really good wrestlers.

Riddle fired up a few times and looked really good, but then he decided to grab a steel chair – like a moron – and missed, then walked right into a stomp, immediately followed by a diving stomp for the Rollins win.

This came just days after Seth brought Matt’s real-life divorce into the feud, only for the villain to get no comeuppance in a blowoff match.

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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.