WWE Fastlane 2018: Star Ratings For All 7 Matches
7. Tye Dillinger & The Fashion Police Vs. Mojo Rawley, Chad Gable & Shelton Benjamin
Last-minute filler that if nothing else absolutely indicted the concept of Preshows, this six man tag at least had the good grace to provide some entertainment. Some. Stumbling onto a contrast with some semblance of a premise, the serious men versus the silly goofs was alright, for what it was.
Fandango kicked off proceedings with a not unfunny comedy spot, donning amateur headgear, to which Gable, with a preternatural ability to make anything entertaining, called him an idiot with an even more venomously funny invective than Chris Jericho managed throughout his run with the List. Just as the match started to not punish you for watching, it punished you for watching by cutting to an advert for WWE Network-exclusive content which you’d clearly need to already be a subscriber to watch. If this was a way of tempting illegal streamers, well, they were already watching an illegal stream.
Gable was great, but the gloss has already been dulled from Mojo Rawley’s heel turn. It’s hard to take a bad guy seriously dressed in such garish yellow. His one dimensional game is already growing monotonous, too.
A decent finish rewarded those who turned up early - but if you missed it, you missed absolutely nothing.
Star Rating: **