10 Positives Heading Into WWE Fastlane 2017

10. The Balance Between WrestleMania And Fastlane

With this year’s WrestleMania build already well underway, there was always a risk of Fastlane being overshadowed by the bigger PPV. However, the Raw brand has done a solid job of ensuring that hasn’t been the case.

Though Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman have featured intermittently to hype Lesnar vs. Goldberg at ‘Mania, their appearances haven’t impinged upon Fastlane’s Universal Championship program between Goldberg and Kevin Owens. Plus, other probable WrestleMania feuds, such as Roman Reigns vs. the Undertaker or Chris Jericho vs. Owens, have been placed on the back burner for the time being - though they are rivalries that can easily be rekindled as soon as Fastlane is over with.

That kind of balance has allowed Fastlane to be afforded centre stage, while also ensuring that the pieces are in place to assemble a decent build to WrestleMania in the remaining four weeks until show time.

Pre-WrestleMania PPVs can often feel more like a detour than an actual destination, but thankfully that hasn’t been the case ahead of Fastlane 2017.