10 WWE Extreme Rules 2018 Impulse Reactions
3. Leave It To The Professionals
Vince McMahon loves alliteration, but if Roman Reigns' position as abject failure isn't quite the bandwagon you want to hop on to, there's still ample space on Ronda Rousey's. You'll just have to catch it before it speeds off into the stratosphere like the Rowdy former UFC Champion herself charging into battle.
Alexa Bliss and Nia Jax were sleepwalking through their usual before Rousey hopped the rail in defence of her friend and human plot device Natalya. The WWE ring might be the biggest of its kind, but performers have to jog along at a rather indifferent clip in order to make the 20 feet feel longer. Not Rousey; she sprinted at the villains with such force and fire that she nearly lost Mickie James before hurling her hard into a barrier. She radiates excitement, intensity and action in a way her new colleagues cannot.
She is at an advantage of course - Rousey's star power was forged outside of WWE's walls, but in this new era it is no longer used as a stick to beat her with. Vince McMahon presumably swoons with the same affection that remains for Brock Lesnar, though Ronda thankfully actually offers his audience something real to cling on to.
Give her the belt, and let her beat everybody. She's everything Hardcore Holly pretended to be and then some, the decision is thankfully already overdue.