10 Impulse Reactions To The First EVER Empty Arena WWE Raw

3. 'The Man' & 'The Queen Of Spades'

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More of the same from 'The Man' as she moved from truck to ring with a promo deep into the third hour.

It was decent stuff for the most part - Lynch explained how she'd become the hunter rather than the prey in their series, fronting up to all of Shayna Baszler's most fearsome traits in an earnest effort to prove she was greater than or equal to them. She didn't suffer the silence nor the lack of an audience, and in fact adjusted her cadence a little bit in order to actually add a bit of humanity back to this tale of vampires and meme shades and attack dogs and 18-wheelers.

"It's gonna hit you like a truck" was a little on the nose, but they probably needed to justify the money they'd spent on it after not being able to have it smash into an ambulance or whatever mad sh*t they'd intended for it. It's still WrestleMania season, even if it's not one to be particularly cheerful.

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