13 WWE Extreme Rules 2019 Impulse Reactions

10. The Revival (c) Vs. The Usos

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The Revival and The Usos can't have expected an uphill battle when they saw their names on the board underneath those of the oldest two performers on the show, but the entire wrestling world was still in shock following The Undertaker/Roman Reigns victory - particularly the exhausted observers in Philadelphia.

A hard match to parse as it was happening let alone after the contest, the two best working tag teams in WWE had a great working WWE tag team match but simply couldn't get the crowd up as quickly following their early Sports Entertainment overdose.

Michael Cole, presumably under instruction from Vince McMahon, noted that the contest was "a clinic" immediately after the Champions registered the winning fall with a Shatter Machine. They'd grafted to wrongfoot the talented challengers a number of times in a tacit show of respect, but like much of the other nuanced double team work throughout, it was slightly lost in the haze left behind by the opener's absurd drama.

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