10 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Extreme Rules 2019

3. Convoluted Main Event

Seth Rollins Baron Corbin
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When the Extreme Rules main event was made, many were confused and needed a tutorial. But after seeing it in practice, we really need some charts.

So let’s see if we’ve got this all correct: It was a winners take all, extreme rules mixed tag match, where the men fight the men and the women fight the women, you have to tag in and out, but because it’s extreme rules, there are no DQs, so those other rules don’t apply.

If that’s all true, why didn’t Baron Corbin do what he did at the end of the match in the beginning? Lay out Becky Lynch, tag in Lacey Evans, pin The Man, new champs. The ref couldn’t DQ Corbin, so you might as well use it to your advantage.

The match itself wasn’t the Dumpster fire it could have been, but it certainly had no business main-eventing a PPV. The bout was slow at multiple times and just wasn’t convincing. No one was buying Corbin and Evans as world champions to begin with, but they also didn’t look like they were threats.

Still, this could have been worse, so we’ll give it that much.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.