4 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Backlash 2018

1. Not Even A Placeholder

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The big question heading into Backlash was whether this PPV would be more than a placeholder show. We got our answer.

It wasn’t. It wasn’t even good enough to be considered a placeholder.

After the excellent opening match, nearly everything was a dismal, awful showing. A good match for the WWE Championship was ruined by a non-ending. Both women’s championship matches under-performed. The United States Championship match was boring. The tag match resorted to poor comedy drama between the heels. And the main event was just another reboot of a main event guy no one – apparently including those in the front office – believe in.

No titles changed hands. No one returned in a surprise moment. No new angles began. If the announcers are talking about this PPV beyond this week, we’ll be shocked.

Watch the opening match and then shut the PPV off. Save yourself two-and-a-half hours.

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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.