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- Jade Cargill and Damian Priest had some pretty unfortunate mishaps with the ring ropes during WWE’s Clash at the Castle.
- However, the errors may not have been your fault.
- Images from that same night hinted that there were problems with the ropes.
WWE’s Clash at the Castle event in Scotland is now in the books and was an incredible show with some big moments. Cody Rhodes defeated AJ Styles in a hellish I Quit match, Bayley defeated Piper Niven to retain her Smackdown Women’s Championship and CM Punk returned to cost Drew McIntyre the chance to win the World Heavyweight Championship on home soil.
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McIntyre was stunned after Punk cost him the WWE World Heavyweight Title at Clash at the Castle.
The show was not without controversy, with fans in attendance furious at the outcome of the main event, but there were also two moments on the show that fans have been discussing online, and that was when Jade Cargill and later Damian Priest narrowly avoided . serious injuries when they made a mistake with the ropes of the WWE ring.
First Cargill slipped while jumping rope
The priest then became entangled in them.
Two of WWE’s biggest stars, Cargill and Priest, had a nightmare during the show when they appeared to make major mistakes. First, former AEW phenom Cargill attempted to dive off the ropes, but instead he slipped and fell to the mat in front of Shayna Baszler. He quickly recovered and stood up, continuing with the match, but it was a pretty glaring mistake.
However, she wasn’t the only wrestler to have difficulty with the ropes, as current World Heavyweight Champion Priest suffered a similar mishap. During his main event title match against McIntyre, the Judgment Day member attempted to use the ropes as a launching pad as he somersaulted over them to the outside of the ring, but ultimately found himself tangled in them and hanging upside down on A peaceful place. dangerous looking moment.
Both moments were pretty awkward, but footage that appeared online earlier in the show hints that the problems weren’t with Cargill and McIntyre, but with the ropes themselves.
A referee was seen warning AJ Styles about the ropes
They seemed to be loose
Footage from the first match of the night has shown that the ropes may have been the problem and not the wrestlers using them. Before his match against Rhodes, AJ Styles was seen interacting with the match referee, who indicated to him that something was wrong with the ropes and that they were a little loose.
That explains why Cargill and Priest failed to get proper momentum after trying to overtake them, but it raises an important question. If WWE was aware that something was wrong with the ropes, why didn’t they try to rectify those problems throughout the night?
