10 Impulse Reactions Following WWE Battleground 2017

10. Fresh Start

The match of the night was executed with such staggering simplicity that it beggars belief WWE are incapable of producing a similar level of quality elsewhere on the card.

Unabashed babyfaces that they now are, The New Day were electric in victory over former champions The Usos, the former champions themselves experiencing something of a career renaissance since turning heel shortly after arriving on SmackDown Live!

With Big E patrolling the arena floor and Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods taking care of the heavy lifting, the challengers were able to be high-flying babyfaces cast against the similarly dynamic but altogether more conniving champions.

In the modern era, the 'formula' tag team match is as a rarity and delight. So purely structured and loyally followed because of how sensational it is at working a crowd into a frenzy, the face-in-peril > recovery > chase for the win pathway was expertly followed after Jimmy and Jey flattened Kingston with a powerbomb on the floor.

Woods showed incredible resilience as the bedraggled lone wolf, battling out of a host of seemingly fatal predicaments, including an outstanding false finish in which he ate a brutal superkick off a springboard elbow.

Always better with the belts, The New Day are now at last where they belong again, thus possibly commencing a brand new quest to break their own remarkable longevity record.