10 WWE Clash Of Champions 2017 Impulse Reactions
5. Lumbering
There's been cautious optimism about WWE's recent proliferation of Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live!'s rosters with new females as a precursor for the first ever Women's Royal Rumble in 2018. The latest call-ups haven't been half as prepared as Bayley, Asuka et al were for their main stage bow, but the Rumble match is a numbers game, and quantity over quality are what Absolution and The Riott Squad promise and provide.
However, if this lopsided Lumberjack effort was in any way designed to give Vince McMahon a visual of the upstart stars scrapping over an elusive WrestleMania title shot, hopes of the revolutionary Rumble may now be circling the drain.
Already problematic due to the needless anti-Charlotte agenda loosely pursued by the six blue brand heels, the fragile arc cracked completely when Ruby Riott's gang at the existing also-rans began brawling with each other just for the hell of it anyway. To make matters worse, the brawling looked hokey and contrived, with the prevailing narrative about all women hating one another offering up an unpleasant callback to the Divas division's darkest days.
Charlotte and Natalya conspired to have (another) lousy match amongst all this nonsense too. In victory, 'The Queen' looked an idiot. And as for the biggest loser...