9 Match Star Ratings For WWE Stomping Grounds

1. Seth Rollins Vs. Baron Corbin - Universal Championship Match

Kofi Ziggler Stars
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The worst possible version of and insult to the seminal main event of Over The Edge 1998, this rotten RAW-level crap-tacular was an unqualified disaster.

Lacey Evans was announced as the special guest referee, and did an awful, unfunny version of Mr. McMahon's schtick. She counted slow, she didn't count at all, she feigned a shoulder injury, she, as proxy for the wildly unpopular creative regime, essentially disrupted an already unpromising match in a trademark "we tell stories!"/sports entertainment dose of unimaginative, on-the-nose bullsh*t. Rollins could not escape the stench hours after promising, in a tweet that mat yet stigmatise him as a deluded shill, the "best pro wrestling on the planet".

At one point, he struck Corbin with the falcon arrow. He rocked out in an adrenaline-fuelled impulse, this, despite knowing full well that Lacey wasn't going to make the count. He looked like a total prat in there. He looked like a prat throughout the whole thing, and his big talk affords him no sympathy. He didn't at any point engineer some sort of smart play. He didn't fool Baron into flooring Lacey, before agonising over to take the win that way. Seth Rollins wasn't a savvy hero with a moral code. He was a pawn in a tedious, derivative game.

Who gave Baron this power?

What did Seth think what was going to happen, before pressing send on that tweet? That he was going to carry Corbin to 25 minutes of improbable gold? It was a Baron Corbin match with WWE rubbish tacked on. Dipsh*t.

If WWE proceeds with the telegraphed Inter-gender double title match, how does that work? How is Lacey Evans "allowed"?

WE ARE THE AUTHORITY. THE AUTHORITY IN THE TACOMA DOME CHANTED 'BORING' AND 'AEW'.

"More Lacey Evans? YOU GOT IT!"

Accounting for the odd, committed, painful-looking weapons bump with the last ember of critical objectivity...

Star Rating: *

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