WWE Extreme Rules 2018: Star Ratings For All 12 Matches

10. The B-Team Vs. Deleter Of Worlds - RAW Tag Team Title Match

Minus Four Stars
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A curious (read: totally moronic) choice of an opener to the main card proper, this proved, if nothing else, that WWE is struggling to even play the hits in 2018.

To unglue the crowd, the opening match, ideally, should see two acts perform a brisk, evenly-matched affair designed to create - but not exhaust - a surge of drama. This is elementary stuff.

This wasn’t a brisk, evenly-matched affair; performing as if no cameras were trained on them, Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt walked through their signature spots at house show speed to convey to the crowd that the B Team were out of their depth. There was very little going on. The comedic B Team were hapless, but not ha-ha hapless. They - your new RAW Tag Team Champions! - simply eked out a win having done little but rely on a miscommunication. Teasing a meta meeting between Wyatt and Bo Dallas was very optimistic.

Teasing dissension between Wyatt and Hardy was frankly terrifying, given how lacklustre their first feud was.

Star Rating: * (That rating incorporates Curtis Axel’s endearingly stupid post-match promo).

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