10 Best WWE Set Designs
4. Backlash (2000 - 2002)
Back when Stone Cold Steve Austin was really catching fire as a babyface, Vince McMahon used to effectively admit on camera that he didn't really get it.
Clearly he was glad it was happening and keen to trust the loud instincts of his audience, but little moments on commentary along the lines of "I don't know why they love him, but they do" seemed as much in service of his own confusion as they were the anti-hero persona Austin excelled at.
That's your writer's take on the swinging Backlash pincers, but people love them so much that it'd seemingly discredit the entire list not including them. The adoration could be rooted in nostalgia - Backlash 2000 was one of the best WWE shows ever after all. Still, if there was ever show where the set mattered least it was that one.
There's definitely something fun about the way they move - there's a moderate sense of danger should a passing wrestler get impaled one, and the there's something unique about the set looking like it's got a life of its own independent of the wrestling happening in the ring. F*ck it - bring them back in NXT. Anything to add some pep to the step of that the half empty Full Sail setting.