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The combined ages of the four men involved in the main event at Super Show-Down was 206 years old. The WWE always does a good job of building its stars for the future right?
The WWE seems to be sitting up these major international shows like glorified house shows. They seem to be filled with feel-good moments with the good guys winning a majority of the matches. This means the shows are fun but generally not very memorable in the long run. I think I can live with a fun show from time to time and it is nice to see Australia get a major WWE show.
As I am still figuring out why John Cena looks like JBL now, I will try to distract myself and present my list of the top five most surprising moments of WWE Super Show-Down:
#5 The Aussies All Win
Usually having home field advantage is a bad omen in the WWE. The WWE writers seem to like nothing better than humiliating you in front of family and friends. So image my shock when all three Australians actually won their matches. Who knew you could make home country fans actually happy?
The first shock was when Billie Kay and Peyton Royce won their tag match. The poor IIconics haven’t exactly had a lot of wins since moving to the main roster. With their over the top heel antics, they seemed like good candidates to lose at home. Imagine my shock to see them win cleanly at Super Show-Down. It was their biggest victory on the main roster and a real surprise to see it clean. Poor Asuka. She can’t catch a break.
I am not really use to seeing a lot of title changes on International Shows so it was a pleasant one to see Buddy Murphy win the Cruiserweight title. Murphy was actually from Melbourne and seemed like a good candidate to lose at home as well. It what was the best match of the night, Murphy proved why he is the star of 205 Live. I look forward to seeing what the talented Murphy does going forward and happy he could get the big moment at home.
#4 A No-DQ Match With Little Cheating
AJ Styles is a pretty nice guy. I mean you can threaten his family and go to his home as well. He will even vow to “destroy” you in a WWE Championship match. However, in the No-DQ match in Australia, AJ fought another technical wrestling match. That will really show Samoa Joe!
The match was fine, as all the matches in the series have been, but it was the disappointing end. For the very personal nature of the feud, it was strange to see AJ win the match in such a conventional way. He made Joe tap out. I can’t really see the feud continuing at this point and it seems very anti-climatic ending for such a personal feud.
#3 Becky Lynch Cheats To Win And Is Still Cheered
It doesn’t matter what you do to Becky Lynch. She is only going to be cheered more. The feud between Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair has been well done. Well done that is if you want to make Charlotte the heel and Becky the good guy.
The crowd was firmly behind Becky yet again in Australia. The match was pretty good and had an interesting finish. Charlotte was about to win clean when Becky used the title belt for the disqualification. It was the first time Lynch cheated to win and the crowd still didn’t care.
A word of advice for the WWE writers, if you want people to boo Lynch maybe don’t have Charlotte attack her after the match. I am confused what the WWE wants us to do in the feud but it is still among the best feuds in the WWE at the moment.
#2 John Cena Barely Wrestles
I wish I had John Cena’s life.
He is extremely wealthy, making movies around the world and now a part-time wrestler making a lot of money in each rare appearance. I figured since we hadn’t see John Cena wrestle a televised match in nearly six months that he would put in a lot of effort. Instead he decided to do six moves and call it a night. Poor Bobby Lashley had to do all the work in the tag match.
He talked after the “match” that he didn’t know what the future would bring. I would say if you can make a big paycheck and only work for one minute it is worth the effort to come back from time to time John.
#1 Daniel Bryan Wins In Under Three Minutes
It is time to say something controversial. I haven’t been impressed with Daniel Bryan since his comeback.
Bryan feuds with the likes of Big Cass, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn and The Miz haven’t really impressed. I assumed with the excellent backstory to The Miz feud that their matches would be strong. After two less then impressive outings, I expected Daniel Bryan and The Miz to put on a good show in Australia. I mean it was a number one contender's match and should be an exciting back and forth encounter. Nope.
Why did they do a two and a half minute match? The crowd and the wrestlers all seemed shocked. Why the hype package was longer than the “match” itself. It doesn’t serve either wrestler and provided a massive disappointment in an underwhelming feud.
