7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Crown Jewel 2021

by Scott Carlson

1. Follow THAT

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Really, it shouldn’t be surprising that Edge and Seth Rollins put on an absolute immediate classic Hell in a Cell match Thursday. Let two accomplished veterans construct a match with a clear story and a “clean” finish, and great things can happen.

Rollins and Edge pulled out all the stops in a brutal cell match that involved tables, ladders, chairs, chains and even a wrench, but never got hokey or unbelievable (within the confines of a wrestling universe). Rollins getting shoved off the top into the cell and through a table was remarkable, as was his MDK powerbomb off the top of a ladder through a table.

We could deduct half a point for Michael Cole calling Rollins hitting an Unprettier as “using Edge’s own move,” but that really is on Cole, not the wrestlers.

This one was a real barnburner. If you missed it, make sure to watch it on the replay.

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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.