10 ALL IN Impulse Reactions

8. Women Trouble

Tessa Blanchard, Chelsea Green, Britt Baker and Madison Rayne weren't the ones to blame for the way their match played out buried in the earlier portion of ALL IN. A lack of storyline emphasis and the WWE Divas Division multi-person mentality forced a glut of spots and subsequently the odd aura-denting botch along the way.

The finish was the most muddled, with Baker's belated break-up sucked the heat out of the finish along with Blanchard's status as the most obvious winner.

She was the first female not named Rhodes announced for ALL IN; a second generation star the Being The Elite crew were keen to put focus on without using their YouTube vehicle to...put focus on her.

In spite of these quiet-voiced quibbles, the match did at least generate a standing ovation from the ALL IN faithful, but one senses this may have been out of respect for the magnificent individual efforts on display rather than any particular brilliance emerging from the output.

The brutal reality was that ALL IN never caught sight of its lone blind spot - some room for improvement should they get to work on a sequel.

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