WWE TLC 2017: Assessing The Potential Of All 7 Matches

7. KICKOFF MATCH: Sasha Banks Vs. Alicia Fox

We've already seen this match this week; in typically pointless WWE fashion, this wrestling match was promoted via a wrestling match between the same competitors. As rematches go, it's as uninspiring as the WrestleMania 29 main - only significantly less star-powered and with significantly less potential. Their match on RAW was a match on RAW; decent at the very best, too short to really register at the time, and forgotten forevermore as soon as the ref struck three.

Alicia Fox boasts a beautiful Northern Lights suplex, but despite more than a decade of in-ring experience, it remains the only top-tier component of her game. It's hard to imagine Fox bucking the trend on Sunday, and crafting her first truly memorable bout on the Kickoff portion of a B-level, one match show of a PPV. Sasha is capable of greatness - provided the platform, and the opponent, exists. But it's a Kickoff match.

Maximum Star Rating Ceiling: **1/4

Also added to the Kickoff portion of the show is all 277 slides of Drew Gulak's Powerpoint presentation bit - entertaining enough in a vacuum as far as deluded heel bits go, but not entertaining enough to fire up the Network earlier than planned. In that sense, it's very much symbolic of the brand on which it usually appears.