Hello my fellow wrestling fans reading this and welcome to my extreme rules PPV review and the show was ok. Nothing amazing besides one match and i can't talk about my thoughts on the preshow matches simply because i haven't seen it and yes i'm happy that sanity finally won. Now, let's talk wrestling shall we?
B team vs "WOKEN Matt hardy and Bray Wyatt
Decent match. At one point, matt hardy told bray to eat him to bo dallas. That made me laugh. During the match, matt accidentally pushed bray to the outside and then the match ends with bo delivering a swinging neckbreaker to matt to win the RAW tag team champions. The first time for bo and a for the second time with cutris. That was a unexpected win and i hope that creative takes them seriously considering that they're the tag champs but i highly doubt that. I think their gonna face probably the revival considering that they were watching the match between bo dallas and matt hardy and they beat roman and bobby lashley in a tag team match. Two of the top stars on RAW but i could be wrong.
Meanwhile, a backstage interview was conducted by renee young and kurt basically gave brock an ultimatum. Either brock shows up tommorow night on RAW or he's stripped from the universal championship and that got a huge reaction from the crowd. A nice cliff hanger to RAW tommorow is all i can say.
Finn Balor vs Baron Corbin
This was surprisingly a decent match. Baron corbin delivering a deep six on any opponent is ALWAYS great to see. Anyways, the match ends with a small package to baron for the win and i have a issue with this. Yes the right man won but the problem is that this awful, poorly written feud is unfortunately gonna continue and in my opinion, finn balor is better than this.
Asuka vs Carmella
This match was mediocre at best. There was a point in the match were ellsworth got stuck in the shark cage and the ref and some technicians were trying to get rid of the thing that got ellsworth stuck in the first place. Meanwhile carmella was laying on the outside and i gotta ask. Why isn't the referee counting to ten? I get it he's focusing on ellsworth getting stuck but this is a normal match after all right? The match ends with carmella pushing asuka to the shark cage on her face to regain her title and i'm gonna assume that asuka is getting a rematch at some point and if anything, this match kinda exposed how bad carmella is in the ring even though she's a pretty good talker in my opinion.
Jeff hardy vs Shinsuke Nakamura
So much for this match being a sleeper match. Before the match started, nakamura delivered his signature move called the low blow without the ref even seeing it. The match ended quickly with nakamura delivering a kinshasa to jeff hardy to crown the new united states champion. His first ever championship in the main roster. Randy Orton came back to a standing ovation (sarcasm), looked at shinsuke and immediately kicked jeff on his balls. Ouch. Anyways, a rematch is happening on SmackDown this week and i hope that match is going to be somewhat competitive.
Kevin Owens vs Braun Strowman
This match was basically braun beating the shit out of owens with the exception of owens giving some offence to braun. The match ended with braun like an idiot, threw kevin owens to the spainsh announce table declaring kevins owens the winner of that match. I don't what happens next but i'm gonna predict that this feud is going to end? I don't but we'll see.
The Bludgeon Brothers vs Team Hell NO
Earlier in the show, the bludgeons brothers beat up both bryan and kane and at one point, erick rowan hit the door with the axe on kane's leg with the door supporting it. Before i talk about the match itself, Fightful.com is reporting that bryan had resigned a two year deal with the WWE and all i can say is that WWE would be foolish to let someone like a daniel bryan go. Anyways, Most of the match was basically a two on one handicap match and it was good to be honest. Kane comes back to save bryan and had a bit of momentum in this match until luke harper hit kane's leg and the match ends with the bludgeons brothers delivering a tag team manoeuvre to daniel bryan and regain the smackdown tag team champions. Hoping this reunion ends sooner rather than later.
Bobby Lashley vs Roman Reigns
This match was surprisingly decent. Started slow but picked up really quickly in my opinion. During the match, roman delivered a attitude adjustment like move to bobby lashley on the outside floor which looked brutal so props to lashley for taking that bump. The match ends with bobby counted Roman's spear and gave a spear of his to win the match. I'm actually surprised that lashley won but considering that he hasn't looked good since his return, the win actually made sense. The only thing i hate about his win is that it continues to build sympathy for roman which if you don't know already, it's not working but that's just me. If Brock shows up tomorrow night, don't be surprised if Roman interferes Brock.
Alexa Bliss vs Nia Jax
Just like the SmackDown women's championship earlier, this match wasn't very good. During the match Nia Jax delivered a military press and threw alexa on the garabage bin like the picture above. Ronda jumps out the barricade and beats the crap outta mickie james. Ronda then chases alexa and ronda got hit with the Singapore cane (or the kendo stick depending on who you are) by mickie. The match ends with alexa delivering a DDT to Nia on the chair to retain the championship. This will eventually build to a ronda rousey vs alexa bliss match at summerslam (No shit, omar).
AJ Styles vs Rusev
This is a goooood match. The match told a typical but a decent story in the ring and that was rusev's leg. Rusev with the injured leg, managed to look dominate throughout this match. The match ends with AJ hitting the phenomenal forearm to rusev to retain the WWE title. Is just me or is it that i want both aiden english and rusev to set their sights on the tag titles again? As for as the WWE championship is concerned, AJ i'm assuming, will face samoa joe at summerslam and i wish that he faces the miz instead but it is what it is.
Dolph Ziggler vs Seth Rollins
WAOW! I'm actually shocked and happy that the intercontinental championship actually main evented a PPV. The last time that happened is i believe backlash 2001. The match itself was good but their matches on RAW in the past couple of weeks was better but that's subjective. During the match, the crowd for some odd reason, started to chant in the style of the royal rumble every ten seconds in the match and i thought it was funny at first but got a bit annoying as time goes by. Drew at first looked kinda stupid in this match but he hit the claymore to seth for dolph to get his first fall so his stupidity actually paid off i guess? I feel like the problem with this match is that they were too many falls in my opinion. I don't know, i prefer the fall being 0 to 0 the first 15 minutes or something and then pick up from there. Anyways the matched ended in a draw. Then kurt angle came out and then declared a sudden death overtime. Seconds later comes drew and distracts seth for dolph to delivered a zig zag on seth rollins to regain the intercontinental championship. Again good match and we'll see where the championship scene goes from here.
Sound off the comments below on what do you think about extreme rules 2018 and follow me on twitter @omar_playa. Anyways, stay safe smarks.
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