SNME: Was It Worth Watching?

Saturday Night’s Main Event was one of those WWE specials that wasn’t bad at all, but also didn’t feel essential by the end of the night. The wrestling itself was mostly solid, the crowd stayed into the show, and there were a few standout moments, but nothing really felt game-changing. It honestly came across like a filler event between bigger storylines instead of a show that people are going to remember months from now. WWE clearly focused more on building toward future matches instead of making this feel like a huge event, and that really showed throughout the night.

The opening six-woman tag match with Jade Cargill, Michin, and B-FAB vs. Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair, and Alexa Bliss brought a lot of energy and gave the crowd a fun start to the show. Jade getting the pin on Rhea was probably the biggest takeaway from the match. Brie Bella and Paige defending the Women’s Tag Team Titles against Lash Legend and Nia Jax was decent, but it never really reached another level emotionally. Becky Lynch vs. Sol Ruca had some smooth moments and athletic counters, but the disqualification finish completely hurt the momentum and made the match feel more like setup than payoff.

The World Tag Team Championship match between The Vision and The Street Profits had good action, but the interference-heavy ending made it feel overly complicated. Penta vs. Ethan Page was probably the best straight-up wrestling match on the entire card. Ethan Page looked great in defeat, and Penta continuing to build momentum was one of the few things on the show that actually felt important. Overall, the event was solid enough to sit through, but nothing about it screamed “must-watch.” It felt more like an extended episode of weekly TV than a memorable WWE special.

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Saturday night's main event is in the books, and I walked in with very low expectations for this show. I don't think it was booked very well at all. However, I did enjoy myself. I did enjoy myself. Now, was this a groundbreaking earth shattering wrestling event? No, it wasn't. In fact, you could literally skip Saturday night's main event and not be affected. You could literally just not watch it and it would not affect your enjoyment of the product as a whole. Nothing groundbreaking happened. But but it was still okay. It was still okay. Sometimes, sometimes you just want to sit down and watch wrestling on a Saturday, and that's what I got. Some pretty decent matches. Let's talk about it after we talked this belt on my shoulder. I'm giving it away at 20, no, 30,000 subscribers. I'm gonna give it away on my quest to quit my day job. All you gotta do is comment below and subscribe to the channel, and you can win this belt right here. It's not a toy, it's a replica. Alright, so like I said, decent, decent show. But my guys, my gals, they definitely did not win. No titles changed hand, and I really think they should have done at least one title, one title of hand changing, because making it seem important. Saturday's main event just doesn't really seem that important in the grand scheme of things, and tonight kind of like kind of solidified that. That it's like you can skip this show and it doesn't matter. Because, like, okay, so let's just start off. We got the the three-way. No, no, it's a six, six women matchup. It's Alexa Bliss, Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair versus versus Jade Cargill and the baddies, Meechan and B Fab. Now, Jade Cargill does win, and that is the right call, especially if Jade is going to lose to Rhea Ripley at Clash in Paris. Jade will get the visual pin on Rhea Ripley. That's big for their feud. But the but the thing that I did not like about this match is Charlotte and Rhea, by the end of it, they were totally like best buds. I don't think these two should ever be friends. Period. They should be like Rock and Austin. Yeah, they most they both might be good guys or they might both be bad guys at certain points in their careers, but they will never like each other no matter what. At best, they will like begrudgingly team up with one another to beat up like Vince McMahon or a common enemy. But by the end, they were they were handshaking, they were doing moves together, they were holding Alexa Bliss. I did not like that at all. Like they should, they should really, there should be an underlining tension between those two at all times. The other thing that was in play here was Charlotte Flair and Jade Cargill. It seems like we're really still teasing that matchup where we never got in a like a real one-on-one between those two. It was almost like if they were in the ring, one would tag out, or Jade would tag in when Charlotte was getting really beat down. So I do think that Jade is probably going to lose to Rhea Ripley and then enter into a program with Charlotte Flair. But when it's all said and done, we do have Jade Cardiel and the baddies with the victory. More so probably for just setup of the of the uh of the Clash in Italy matchup. Another Clash in Italy matchup was announced tonight, and that's Sol Ruca versus Becky Lynch, the best in the world. And that's not just me saying it, that's sports, that's sports illustrative. And it's set up for an actual Intercontinental title defense in Clash in Italy. And that's because tonight they had a match, right? They had a match, it was a non-title match, and this one, this is the match on the card that kind of actually did suck. This was this was not good. This was not good. We have Jessica Carr. You know how Jessica Carr and Becky Lynch are kind of like at odds with each other. The only reason why I think this happened is to further that feud because during the fight, we have Becky Lynch. She first attacks Sol Ruka, right? She attacks Sol Ruka before the bell rings, and then Jessica Carr gets her off of her. Then Sol Ruka cheap shots Becky, and then we start the match. That makes Becky mad because, well, Becky just got cheap shotted by Sol Ruka, even though you know Becky is the one who did it first. So then the match goes about like maybe three or four minutes, not long at all. We go for a soul snatcher, Becky pulls Jessica Carr, and Sol Ruka pretty much awkwardly lands on Jessica Carr, and Becky gets out. At that point, Jessica disqualifies Becky and awards the match to Sol Ruka. And it's like, this was already a non-title match, and it was only a three-minute match. Like, why did we just do this on Raw? This literally could have been done on Raw instead of building up this list like, ooh, we're gonna see Sol Ruka versus Becky Lynch type of thing going on. It was like four minutes. It was four minutes, and it ended in a really wonky disqualification. Unless it's to further Becky and Jessica Carr's storyline, I don't see why they did it here. I really don't. I really don't see why they did it here. Becky will get mad because her gripe is that Sol Ruka is the one that hurt Jessica, not Becky, even though Becky's the one that pulled. And and Jessica Carr is just like, yeah, I know what happened. So you're disqualified. Becky will go in the back and she talks to Nick all this because I guess Adam Pierce isn't there. And he's and she's like, This is a travesty. And he's like, Yeah, just got off the phone with Adam. Next week, you two clash in Italy. So this shouldn't have happened on a PLE. This was this was a storyline angle. Should have happened tomorrow on Monday Night Raw, to be honest with you. But whatever. Didn't ruin, didn't ruin things. It was just weird. It was just weird. Then we do Penta versus Penta versus Ethan Page. I like Penta. I do like Penta, but I'm liking Ethan Page way, way more. I really thought he was gonna win. He cut a really good promo backstage. I by the way, this is my one-take one shot Saturday night's main event review where I don't do it. No, wait, wait, where I do it immediately following the show. That way you get my gut reaction. Can't steal other people's opinions. Haha, maybe. Maybe when I'm watching this, I'm watching someone live right now and I got an earpiece in and I'm like, I'm just regurgitating everything they say. I'm not, I'm not. Alright, so okay. Sorry, sorry. I don't know. This is why well one takes are dangerous for me because I just I just talk, I just say things. You want to hear about the moon landing? Is the earth flat? Or is it round? Let's talk. Anyways, no, if the earth was flat, then the cats would have knocked everything off the earth by now. You know what I mean? Shut up, chop. Okay, so Penta versus Ethan Page. Ethan Page cuts a really good promo about how this is the most important day in the Intercontinental Championships history because he's about to win it. So God, I love him. He did lose, though. He didn't lose. It was a good match. And I don't really, you know, I'm not gonna go play by play. He did try to cheat. He took off one turn buckle. Ref tried to stop him, so he takes off the next turn buckle, and shenanigans, boom, he ends up hitting the turn buckle that was supposed to, he was supposed to hit Penta with, and Penta gets the win. I get it. I get why we're letting we let Penta win. It's not even the wrong call, it's just I wanted Ethan Page to win. This was just, this was just a moment in time where you had two correct winners. Penta winning, I could see why that's the right choice. Ethan Page winning, I could see that as the right choice. I would have chosen Ethan Page, but I get why they went with Penta. It's not like, you know, it's fine. It's fine. And then hopefully now, hopefully now we can go into a fatal four-way where we have Javon Evans, uh Rusev, Penta, and Ethan Page. And then maybe they could do what they did in NXT when Ethan Page won the NXT title. Like he was kind of knocked out. He fell on top of somebody and he just got the one, two, three in a fatal four-way or a triple threat or something. And then he wakes up. He's like, What? I'm the champion? Just repeat that. I don't care. Repeat it. That would be kind of cool. And then Penta could be like, What? What do you mean I lost my belt? And then so that was that was fine. Then we get the irresistible forces, Lash Legend and Nia Jax versus Brie, Bella, and Pai, and they do an interview, like, oh, we're the underdogs. We're the underdogs. I'm like, in what world are you the underdogs? I get it. You're smaller than Lash Legend and Nia Jax. But Lash Legend just lost last night. You beat them at WrestleMania. Then a week later, you beat them again. You're not the underdogs. At the very least, you're just there's a size advantage, and you gotta say things like, oh, it's not the uh, it's not the what the uh the the fight of the dog or the the bark of the dog, it's the size of his heart or something like that. You know, whatever, whatever Rey Mysterio would say. Rey Mysterio. Uh but yeah, so this match, it happens. I don't really got much to say. The irresistible force lose. And there was a cool sequence, though. So it's in the corner. We have Paige go for the pin, and like it's in a it's kind of like how Rhea Ripley pins women or Gunther pins men after a power bomb. That's what that's what um that's what uh Paige is doing to Naya, but then Brie puts her foot on on like Paige's butt or or Naya's butt to to like kind of give them leverage and then they win. Hopefully, hopefully Naya and Lash are done at this point. It's like I don't like I don't hate them together. I think I think Naya was a really good mentor to Lash Legend, but the fact that they're just losing now, and it's just like okay, just break them up, just break them up. We're in Queen of the Rings season, we're in Money in the Bank season, just break them up, let them go their separate ways. They don't need to be a tag team anymore. They've just they lost their belts, they've lost two rematches. I'm not interested in them anymore. That's what happens when you when you don't treat your team strong or you let them take loss after loss. And I'm not even saying it was not even saying it was the wrong thing to do. I'm just saying you did it, break them up now. I want to see Lash go and get some W's on her own. And then we get to our final match. I was surprised that this was the final match. Logan Paul, Austin Theory versus the Street Profits. I would have sworn it would have been Penta and Ethan Page, but it was it was this thinking, okay, well, something big has to happen. Maybe Montez Ford is gonna turn heel, maybe Seth Rollins is gonna come out. I'm thinking Joe Hendry could come out and start singing, and none of that, none of that happened. We have ourselves a match. It it ran over. It was, I think we went nine minutes over because I figured this was gonna be a two-hour show, but whatever. And the the really cool spot here was at one point, one point Braun Breaker comes running out to do his thing. You know, he's running, he goes for the spear, and Montez Ford jumps it, leapfrogs, which is cool, right? But then Angelo Dawkins like plows into him and and and makes him like you know go over the announce table. That was a really good, that was a really good sequence right there. I I highly recommend going to watch it. Now for the street profits and just in general, that was super cool. For Brawn Breaker, it's just another example of Braun Breaker like not look like looking like a chump. It made Braun Breaker look like a chump, but it looked awesome at the same time. And then Austin Theory, I am starting to see some character work out of Austin Theory. He's been very much, very much a statue lately, or since since pulling off the mask. And tonight I started seeing him and Logan Paul kind of kind of goofing around and stuff, and I'm starting to see some personality from Austin Theory, so I want to see more of that. Logan Paul has has fully embraced his his wrestling persona. He's doing a great job. Street Profits, great job. I wanted the Street Profits to win, very disappointed that they lost. I like so it didn't, it didn't make me hate the show, but it definitely let me kind of like eh. It left me kind of, eh. And I really think they should have closed the show with Penta and Ethan Page, because then at least the face wins, and you're kind of like, okay, cool. All right, cool. But like Logan Paul, the bad guys winning and standing tall made you feel like, oh, life, life sucks, you know, the economy, inflation, gas prices are high. You know, it just made it didn't ruin your life, but it ruined your your kind of your mood. You know, it ruined your mood. So I would have I would have changed the order of things. At the end, we do have Braun Breaker running down again and doing a couple spears on the Street Profits, and then they stand tall. That's probably because they're gonna be like, Where were you, Seth? Where were you, Seth? Why didn't you help us? I thought we were buds now. So that's probably why that they they they did that. So overall, I'm gonna give this, I'm gonna give this one, two, three, four, five, six, seven chops on the choppo meter. It I had I had very low expectations, so it's like it was almost impossible to meet those expectations, they were so low. So, like, that kind of helped make this a better event than it really probably was. But the fact that there was no title changes, just very non-important. You could skip it and it wouldn't matter. I'm giving it a seven. I did enjoy it though. I did enjoy it. If you have nothing to do, like, yeah, sure, why not? Go check it out. But you know, if you if you haven't watched The Boys season five yet, then go watch the boys instead of this. That's a very adult show though, so kids don't watch. Also, by the way, Tom, if you're watching, I need to get I need your mom to send me your address so I can send you something. Uh part of the 20,000 giveaway. I still need to do that, but but that's that's a whole separate thing. So, boys, girls, I appreciate every single one of you. And I will we'll we'll do hot takes and then we'll do Monday Night Raw, and we'll just keep this, keep this going on the road to 30,000 subscribers. Boys, girls, uh see you later. Bye.