10 WWE Backlash 2020 Impulse Reactions
1. The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever?
No, of course it wasn't. But it was far from a failure, and that itself needs to be registered as a pretty substantial success.
What else did we learn from this latest bizarre experiment?
The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever actually managed to pull a pay-per-view back from the brink of being an all-time worst, which is perhaps the closest praise could get to such a loftily-raised label. The piped-in crowd noise and other AV effects worked sparingly, but one senses they'll have been deemed productive enough to filter into Raw and SmackDown any day now. Edge's tricep injury might be a nasty one, but time away might allow him to get a proper return run if and when he recovers.
These are not faint praise positives - far from it considering what the two men had to try and live up to here. WWE achieved...something with the Backlash headliner, and not just because it erased a growing stigma about their rank inability to think outside the box. For all the bells and whistles, it was the back-to-basics veneer that helped get this extremely difficult load over the line.
Wrestlers, agents and company should be commended for this. They'd have been eviscerated had it failed.