4 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Backlash 2017

3. Wyatt Family Wasteland

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Watching Luke Harper wrestle, it’s astonishing to think that he battled Erick Rowan in a nothing match Sunday, while Jinder Mahal competed for and won the WWE Championship. It’s frustrating to think that Baron Corbin is viewed as a future star.

Harper is one of the more talented big men on the main roster, capable of flying around the ring like a cruiserweight with dives, dropkicks and even the occasional hurricanrana. He busted out some of those moves at Backlash en route to defeating Rowan, but all of it felt like it was for naught. Harper wrestled Rowan in the “death slot” of the PPV, after the exciting United States Championship match but before the main event.

You would hope that this would put an end to any Wyatt Family fallout and Harper would go on to start competing in matches with bigger stakes, but it would not be shocking if he and Rowan are still battling next month. Please prove this column wrong, WWE.

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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.