If you ordered the WWE Network right after last weeks free preview ended, then you got your moneys worth with the first match of the night. Hearing Jerry Lawler wax about the good old days when most title matches were two out of three falls gave it a special feeling, that this was going to be a war that harkened back to the battles between the British Bulldogs and the Hart Foundation. And the Wyatts and Usos did not disappoint. They put on a masterful performance that had fans on the edges of their seats for the last 10-15 minutes. It was the kind of tag team wrestling that longtime wrestling fans love to see and that even the most inexperienced fan can pick up on almost immediately. Sure, there was a lot of immediate armchair booking over whether the Wyatts should have won here since the Usos have beaten everyone, but lets be realistic: The Usos have held the belts for just over four months. That might seem like a long time, but it really isnt. The Shield topped out at just under five months, and even Kofi Kingston and R-Truth topped four months as tag champs. Keeping the straps on a hot team makes them mean something, and hopefully will make when they lose them all the more significant. Could the Usos have lost the titles at Battleground to the Wyatts and it been the right move? Absolutely. But keeping the titles on the Usos isnt necessarily the wrong move provided they dont keep them there past the expiration date.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
