6 Biggest Missed Opportunities From WWE Fastlane 2019
All over the place.
The superstars of Raw and SmackDown made their final stop on the 'Road to WrestleMania' at last night's hectic (and completely unnecessary) event known as Fastlane.
On a night that saw the women's WrestleMania main event finally come together, Kofi Kingston endure yet another trial as he fought for what was rightfully his and the 'Hounds of Justice' reunite for (wait for it) "one last time", it's safe to say that the event delivered its fair share of memorable moments.
In fact, it actually deserves a lot of credit for producing some surprisingly strong contests which certainly helped make it one of the more enjoyable B-show pay-per-views in recent memory.
Having said all that, Fastlane did suffer from a number of frustrating creative decisions, last-minute adjustments and downright bizarre booking (or should that be overbooking?) which ended up taking away from some of the quality content that it produced. Though the action was solid the whole way throughout, it simply couldn't save this event from the creative team's baffling storylining and simply highlighted just how unprepared WWE is for the 'Showcase Of The Immortals'.
6. A Lack Of Structure
In terms of match quality, Fastlane was actually pretty good. However, in terms of match presentation, it was just all over the place.
The top half was front-loaded with SmackDown matches. Including the kick-off show, the first four contests were exclusive to the blue brand. Not only was this incredibly uninspired booking that made the show feel rather uneven, it once again positioned SmackDown as the less important show.
You could make a case for the show's structure based on how the amount of SmackDown matches drastically outnumbered the red brand's offerings, but the powers-that-be could have at least moved one of the Raw matches to the first hour just to split things up, and make it at least appear like the SmackDown-heavy opening wasn't just serving as nothing more than groundwork for the inevitable dual main events from Raw.
Moreover, all of the last-minute additions to the card (through Kofi's handicap match against The Bar and the Fatal 4-Way U.S. Title match) resulted in a heap of multi-superstar matches all taking place consecutively, leaving us with very little one-on-one action throughout the night and an incredibly muddled and uneven show.