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WWE returned to Saudi Arabia for the third time since last year and put on Super ShowDown in Jeddah. With a card featuring some huge names, and the first-ever match between The Undertaker and Goldberg, it certainly appeared as though the lineup could rival The Showcase of the Immortals.
Randy Orton and Triple H’s match was probably the second most anticipated match of the night. While no women’s matches were held during the night, bashing all the rumors that were circulating, Alexa Bliss and Natalya traveling with the roster indicates that something might be worked out for a women’s match in the future.
In this article, we will look at the 5 biggest surprises that we got from Jeddah during the Super ShowDown pay-per-view.
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#5 No Tag Team Championship matches
Just wondering, how can WWE expect to have a WrestleMania level event without the involvement of any of its Tag Team Championships?
On Friday night, the Universal Championship, WWE Championship, and the Intercontinental Championship were up for grabs at Super ShowDown. Surprisingly, all three championships went home with the same men who walked into The Kingdom with them.
A pre-show tag team match between The Usos and The Revival also took place at the event, but it was surprising to see that none of the Tag Team titles were on the line at the event.
With Daniel Bryan choosing not to travel to The Kingdom again, one-half of the SmackDown Tag Team Champions was missing. However, The Raw Tag Team Champions were at the show and competed in the Battle Royal where they came face-to-face with the biggest threats to their championships.
Why wasn’t a Raw Tag Team Championship match set for the event instead of wasting the tag team division talent in the battle royal?
#4 The Lucha House Party get disqualified
On Friday night, The Lucha House Party were given the honors of becoming Lars Sullivan’s first victims on the main roster. There was little to no doubt that the three-on-one handicap match was simply booked to showcase The Freak’s power, and it did just that for at least half of the match.
During the ending moments of the match, Sullivan scaled the ropes for his diving headbutt, but Metalik and Dorado crotched Sullivan and knocked him to the mat. The three-on-one advantage finally proved fruitful, but not until the officials disqualified the babyfaces for not leaving the ring.
A disqualification win for the newest monster on the main roster was all the creatives could do to put over the massive Superstar? The surprise booking helps no one, and could actually be seen as a push for The Lucha House Party who did not lose clean to the biggest force they’ve come across till now.
#3 Brocks Lesnar fails to cash-in again
The Beast brought the Beast Box to the Kingdom, but the party didn’t just stop there. On Monday Night Raw, Lesnar destroyed Rollins and surprisingly refused to cash in his Money in the Bank contract, claiming that he’d do it on Friday.
Okay, so give him the benefit of doubt that he probably wanted to travel thousands of miles and probably be jet-lagged to cash in his contract rather than do it when it was most sensible to do so.
On Friday, Rollins defeated Baron Corbin while fighting through injuries, and Lesnar made his way out to the Middle East to cash in his contract on the fallen Beastslayer. However, he was unable to do so, once again surprising those in attendance, and making his Money in the Bank contract reign no better than Braun Strowman’s.
Even if The Beast was attacked while trying to cash in his contract, couldn’t he recover in a few hours and ask to cash in his match at the end of the night? Looks like R-Truth is doing better at protecting his 24/7 Championship than Lesnar.
#2 Mansoor wins the Battle Royal
We’re shocked by this booking for all the right reasons. Last year, Braun Strowman overcame 49 other men in a Royal Rumble setting to win Saudi Arabia’s Greatest Royal Rumble match. This earned him a shiny trophy, a Hulk-colored belt, and not much else.
This year, WWE decided to save time by making the 50-man affair a Battle Royal instead with no definite prize set for the victor.
While there were many favorites for the match, with Ali topping the list, it was Saudi Arabia’s own export Masoor who won the grand match. Mansoor has become a new face on NXT and was introduced to the WWE Universe last year at The Greatest Royal Rumble event.
Since the winner gets nothing much, it’s good for the young man to get some spotlight to kickstart his career and score a huge victory in his homeland.
#1 The Main Event
At least half of the people reading this article would agree that a match between Goldberg and The Undertaker was among the top dream matches even before we knew how WWE bookings worked.
Even though age was a major factor in the match, the two men still had a lot of potentials to pull off a really good match to satisfy the crowd.
Now that the match is over, many of us are still wondering why in the world did it take place in the first place. With all due respect to the two legends, the match was full of “shocks and surprises” for all the wrong reasons.
There were multiple botched moves, and some botched finishers could have resulted in major injuries. WWE should have taken all this into account before agreeing to this First Time Ever match more than a decade too late. This is all on WWE and the writers involved.
