![]() Rusev and Jinder Mahal’s tag team breaking up on the pre-show, leading to Mick Foley making randomized matches for them and telling them to figure out who’d get to wrestle first.On Twitter I described it as feeling, “like somebody died backstage and they’re just killing time until they can figure out how to tell us.” I was worried Bill Goldberg had taken all the medicine at once and was staggering around backstage like an old man. The middle stretch of Fastlane might be the most brutally boring and backwards pay-per-view stint since they threw an Elimination Chamber on a Christmas-themed ECW show and stuck Test and Bob Holly in it. Worst: How Did This Shitty Raw End Up On My Pay-Per-View She switches arms with the choke, so goes into a sleeper, and so on. She’s beaten her a couple of times already, and WWE seems to have forgotten that Survivor Series tapout, so why worry? That lackadaisical attitude lets Sasha counter into a guillotine choke (because she’s done her homework, and that’s how Bayley beat Nia down in NXT), and they do a fun thing with Nia trying to throw Sasha around and Sasha just switching positions on her body. At one point she’s got Sasha in a torture rack and just walks around the ring playing with her instead of trying to hurt her and finish her off. Zayn it wasn’t particularly memorable or thrilling, but it told a good story, mostly based around Sasha Banks weighing less than zero pounds and Nia Jax being ruthlessly overconfident. The good news is that it accomplished both of those things. Wrestling needs to feel like these people are fighting each other, not like they’re taking turns. If the Women’s Championship is caught in this bizarre back-and-forth limbo with no proper alignments and an obsession with streak minutia, we need the women without the championship to throw some competition in the mix. Sasha Banks needed to win, because Jax keeps beating her, and Sasha Banks is not supposed to be Sami Zayn. It’s been a bummer to watch her be such a non-factor.Ģ. She’s been that way since she lost at ROADBLOCK: NO ADDITIONAL DRIVING ALLOWED. Sasha Banks needed to be Sasha Banks again, and cut it out with this meandering, constantly injured, always backstage rubbing the back of her neck and pensively looking off to the left of the camera character. And then he’ll unknowingly skank into unimaginable tragedy.īest: Sasha Banks Is An Actual Wrestler Againįor me, two things needed to happen here:ġ. It’s a little disheartening to see Zayn lose all the damn time, but wrestling needs guys like that, and eventually he’ll win, and it’ll make us very happy. It’s the story you have to tell, and it’s a good one. Joe beats him relentlessly and sometimes creatively, Sami fires up and gets intelligently lucky long enough to get within a breath of the Helluva Kick, then gets bodied to the ground and choked out. This is Joe’s WWE proper pay-per-view debut, and he’s going up against the guy defined by high-effort losing, so you know how it has to end.Īll those Sami beatdowns left him clearly not at 100% for this match with Joe, so he spends most of it on his ass. In contrast, Joe’s “new” to the main roster and got built up (both accidentally and purposefully) by taking out Seth Rollins. This is the guy whose highest profile main roster victory came against Kevin Owens at Battleground, only to have it followed by several months of disappearing into oblivion while Kevin Owens became the Universal Champion. See literally everything else he did in NXT, and most of what he’s done on the roster. Sami Zayn’s entire character is built on trying hard and doing well but consistently coming up a little short, and/or on a rare occasion succeeding, only to walk directly into a massive loss. Up until now, Joe’s been destroying Sami on the regular. It’s hard to explain that sometimes pro wrestling doesn’t have to be exciting to be “good,” but that’s where Joe and Sami kinda settle. That theme continued at Fastlane, with Zayn selling his ass off to make Joe look like a destroyer, Joe doing his part to physically BE a destroyer, and a lot of good, not necessarily memorable pro wrestling happening.
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