18 WWE WrestleMania 36 Impulse Reactions
5. Edge Vs. Randy Orton
At the risk of enraging the comments section further after not heaping boundless praise on the Boneyard Match, was it at all possible - at all possible - that this didn't quite meet the high expectations from the build?
A decent enough fake fight saw them grunt and groan all over the Performance Center, which was quite nice, but it veered between slightly dull and slightly stupid for a programme that had been built so masterfully on television.
It was at least bookended by excellent spots, even it suffered from an awful lot of drag in between. Orton struck first with an RKO having disguised himself as a cameraman in the exact way Edge used to to get The Undertaker when he was the sort of piece of sh*t Orton is today. Edge choking him out and hitting a Conchairto on top of a truck was a strong enough visual set-piece for the finish.
Elsewhere...ehh. 'The Rated-R Superstar' was far too keen on using the environment considering the fury he was supposed to be harbouring, whilst Orton's Shane McMahon-adjacent selling noises were more than a little off-putting in the heat of an otherwise-silent battle.
The match was far from a miss, but it'd be a touch generous to consider it a hit.