10 Reasons You Should Be Watching WWE Mixed Match Challenge
7. Promo Time
Mic skills are a prerequisite for a top WWE star, but it's often only the main event players trusted with time on the stick. The likes of Roman Reigns and AJ Styles deliver lengthy slabs of verbiage every week, but that's not true of many of WWE's midcard players. Over in the world of Mixed Match Challenge, everybody gets to speak, and the result is highly entertaining.
Through the backstage selfie promos now so beloved of WWE to post-match interviews with Renee Young, the Mixed Match Challenge format opens up plenty of opportunities for the superstars involved to speak. In addition, these promos appear, at least on the surface, to be rather less scripted than the spoken segments on the main TV shows.
Lana and Rusev managed to get a whole new song over in their appearance at the end of episode four and episode two concluded with a great skit in which Alexa Bliss and Braun Strowman blushed their way through apparent romantic chemistry to the delight of the WWE Universe. Allowed to speak freely, the Mixed Match Challenge is letting its performers embrace and develop their characters to great effect.