Monday, March 22, 2021

Fastlane 2021 | Review-ish

The WrestleMania stop gap known as Fastlane is now over, here is a complete run down of the match results followed by the Review-ish. 

Kick off Show Match Result
Riddle defeated Mustafa Ali to remain United States Champion.

Main Card Results
Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler defeted Sasha Banks & Bianca Belair to remain Women's Tag Team Champions.

Big E defeated Apollo Crews to remain Intercontinental Champion.

Braun Strowman defeated Elias.

Seth Rollins defeated Shinsuke Nakamura.

Drew McIntyre defeated Sheamus.

Alexa Bliss defeated Randy Orton.

Roman Reigns defeated Daniel Bryan to remain Universal Champion.

Fastlane Review-ish.
It looks as though the group known as Retribution is no more, after Mustafa Ali lost to Riddle, he took his anger out on the other members, Reckoning & Slapjack walked away, leaving T-Bar and Mace in the ring, who then gave Mustafa a double choke-slam, hopefully this is well and truly the end of this group, it had so much promise in the early stages but the booking has been so poor, fingers crossed that five names mentioned will bounce back from this and go on to achieve individual success in the company. 

Nia & Shayna remaining champions was not a surprise, and neither was the differences between Sasha and Bianca at the end of the match, we are three weeks away from WrestleMania, it'll be interesting to see what happens next between them, beginning this Friday on SmackDown! 

Big E and Apollo had a damn good match, you could feel the intensity here, shame about the botched looking pin fall finish, that would be a valid excuse for Apollo to demand a rematch. 

Braun Strowman defeated Elias in a impromtu match, he was due to face Shane here, however it was pulled from the line-up, as mentioned in the predictions. We can expect to see it at WrestleMania. (Subject to change of course) 

Respect to Drew & Sheamus for putting on a damn good match, a quality "sequel" to the previous match they had, when all was said and done after Drew's win, there was a thought of, what is next on the horizon for the Celtic Warrior?  he needs to remain in the main title picture. 

Orton vs. Bliss, in what looked to be a recorded cine-segment, was best part of the event, yes it dragged on a little, but it happens sometimes, we knew Bray was returning, it was a case how and when, his return had early day Kane vibes. Loved the new look of his, horror film fans will agree.

Roman won the match against Bryan with Edge providing the fatal blow to the challenger, The "Rated R Superstar" then stormed out angrily, the leader of the "yes movement" will no doubt have a valid argument to be included in the title match at WrestleMania.

Expectations were low for this event, overall it felt like it was hit and miss, in terms of rating, it is a solid 5/10. it's all about storyline progression at the end of the day and we saw that. Three weeks away from "The Grandest Stage Of Them All" the build up has been lacking so far, there is still time to pick up the momentum. Thanks for reading.