7 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Clash At The Castle

5. Profits, Madcap Kick Things Off Nicely

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When you’ve got a stadium show with 60,000+ in attendance, sometimes you just need a high-energy party match to get the fans fired up.

Enter the Street Profits, Madcap Moss, Alpha Academy and AUSTIN Theory (yes, he got his first name back). The six-man tag on the kickoff show was born out of a couple ongoing rivalries and was more of a mid-card grudge match than something resolving a feud. However, it crammed a ton of action in a short package.

Moss got to show off his freakish speed and strength, hitting Otis with a fallaway slam at one point. Montez Ford did his usual aerial display, hitting a diving blockbuster/electric chair combo to the floor onto a pile.

The Profits picked up the win for their team, but the real story was the fans getting more into things as the match wore on, setting the table for the PLE proper.

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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.