13 WWE Extreme Rules 2019 Impulse Reactions
11. The Undertaker & Roman Reigns Vs. Shane McMahon & Drew McIntyre
Weeks ahead of the pay-per-view, your writer was amongst the (foolish) many that booked this match as a rather simplistic spectacle - tease out Undertaker's entrance with the heels sh*thousing Roman Reigns at every point until 'The Deadman' fires up and fires in to give the heels their just desserts.
Minutes ahead of the pay-per-view, the reality of the structure was altogether clearer.
By announcing that the contest was to open Extreme Rules, WWE effectively promised an endless stream of boypopping moments, including 'Taker getting the bulk of the opening salvo (and chasing Shane McMahon with a f*cking steel chair!) before the set the aforementioned hot tag up at the second attempt.
Undertaker sprinted through all the good stuff as if his reputation depended on it...because it absolutely f*cking did. A vital performance at a vital time, this was his most enjoyable match in five years, and went some way to erasing not just the chronic Saudi Arabia catastrophe against Goldberg but all his other knackered displays since losing to Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania XXX.
This was relentlessly fun. Catharsis, rather fittingly, in the extreme.