10 Positive Developments In This Awful Post-WWE WrestleMania Season
9. The B Team
Proving that WWE can actually book geeks on purpose, the obliviously terrible tandem of Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas is the sort of broad humour at which WWE excels. Virtually the only humour at which WWE excels.
On last week's RAW, the newly-christened B Team celebrated a one-off victory against a Breezango team lacking credibility as if they'd just captured gold on the Grandest Stage. The utterly unearned hysteria delivered warm laughs. Already, the act has generated so much currency that they got away with doing the exact same thing a week later - probably because they ramped up the post-match celebrations from 11 to 12. Axel flopped around the canvas as if suffering a seizure, before belly flopping on the announce desk. It was a priceless bit that actually brought something into a stark and unintentional focus: winning actually matters to at least one WWE act. It matters so much that they endangered themselves by taking a celebratory trip back to the ring in a chair. Silly, silly stuff, but the B Team are providing A+ level fun to a programme otherwise cold and repetitive.
The prospect of a B Team Vs. Revival programme - one in which the latter cannot outwit these buffoons for the life of them - may even sharpen an act dulled beyond recognition.