Super ShowDown (2019)

The 2019 Super ShowDown was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live. It was the second annual Super ShowDown (restylized from "Super Show-Down" the prior year) and took place on Friday, June 7, 2019, at the King Abdullah Sports City's King Abdullah International Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was the third event that WWE held in Saudi Arabia under a 10-year partnership in support of Saudi Vision 2030 and the main card aired live at 9:00 p.m. Arabia Standard Time (2:00 p.m. Eastern Time). Ten matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, The Undertaker defeated Goldberg in what was their first and only match against each other. Other prominent matches saw Shane McMahon defeat Roman Reigns, Kofi Kingston defeated Dolph Ziggler to retain SmackDown's WWE Championship, Randy Orton defeated Triple H, which was ultimately Triple H's final match to take place on a PPV and livestreaming event and in front of a live crowd before having to retire in 2022 due to a cardiac event, and in the opening bout, Seth Rollins defeated Baron Corbin to retain Raw's Universal Championship. The event was also notable for having WWE's largest standard battle royal with a total of 51 participants, though originally scheduled for 50. It was won by Mansoor, a WWE rookie from Saudi Arabia who signed with the company following 2018's Greatest Royal Rumble event and had appeared on NXT and NXT UK. The event received generally negative reviews by critics, with the main event being particularly criticized as one of the worst wrestling matches of all time. It later won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Award for Worst Major...