10 Expectations Vs. Reality For WWE Backlash 2020

10. About Five Extra Matches Get Crammed On To The Show Last Minute

Expectation:

You know what they're like. Remember Super Show-Down this year?

The entire show was shrouded in controversy - a wrestling controversy, not anything remotely important - following a report broken weeks earlier: Goldberg was set to remove the Universal Title from the undefeated Fiend, thus bringing a swift, hilarious end to his monster push. Nobody cared about anything else, except possibly the extent to which they were going to f*ck Ricochet (A: right in the ear with a premature load-blow). Whether you were on Team Sh*tty Replica Belt or Team Nihilism, it didn't matter: everybody wanted to get to the fireworks factory. Perhaps sensing this, WWE attempted to fatigue the streaming audience by welding two hours of that very week's RAW to the back of the show.

Also, they do this in a craven quest to artificially inflate the success of the Network with minutes-viewed data.

Reality:

They've stopped caring about the financial failure that was the WWE Network, and have therefore stopped doing it! Outstanding.

It's not about the wellbeing of the talent. If it were, they'd let them sit down during those ten-hour bulk TV tapings.