10 Things We Learned From The Post-WrestleMania Smackdown Live!

3. Limping Over The Line

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With the 'House of Horrors' match now around the corner for Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton, the top-of-the-show scuffles lead to a main event match that would provide WWE's final televised in-ring action of the WrestleMania weekend.

Though last, it was hard to consider it a main event.

Luke Harper stood out from the crowd, taking a Randy Orton hot tag and blasting through the heels with some more high impact babyface offence as he continues to refine his character away from the storyline and real-life restrictions of the Wyatt Family gimmick.

Less interesting was the interaction between Orton, Wyatt and the still-underwhelming Erick Rowan, who lost all the heat his return had created by taking an RKO and pinfall after a teleporting Bray exited the fray by dropping the house lights.

It was the usual unexplained and unfocussed Wyatt nonsense, as Bray chuckled on the ramp at the millionth-or-so loss for him and his gang of idiots.

The rematch with Orton is likely to be better than their snoozer at the 'Show of Shows', but the sooner the two are splintered into different storylines now, the better.

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