10 WWE Extreme Rules 2018 Impulse Reactions
5. In Hell
Oh (Hell) No they didn't.
YES! They did.
Daniel Bryan was pinned clean by The Bludgeon Brothers in a match he sort-of had to go at alone because Harper and Rowan had decked them both backstage before the match. Though the premise delivered the unintentionally (or was it? Is any comedy, good or bad, not the priority of the writing staff above all else now?) of Kane hobbling out in a hospital boot despite previously surviving various attempts on his life without a scratch, it offered nothing else beyond it. Was it a rib on 'The Big Red Machine' because it's been well over a decade since anybody last saw one of his? Vince McMahon's disdain for people of a larger build might explain why one of his favourites was reduced to foil, but it made for sobering viewing when the figurative and literal lame duck partner still couldn't take the fall.
Daniel Bryan is huge of heart but short of stature - that message was abundantly clear when the company tried in vain to suppress the movement to see him made champion between 2013-2014. It was perhaps the biggest example of how WWE is many things in 2018, but a wrestling company is not one of them - on a night where literal B-Teamers won the equivalent belts on the flagship, a "B+ player" could not. It is better to be bad than good in this Universe.