5 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Backlash 2024 (Results & Review)

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5. Street Fight Survives On Chaos

Kevin Owens Tama Tonga
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The moment the Bloodline/Kevin Owens and Randy Orton match was turned into a street fight, it became clear WWE was going to use plunder and a red-hot crowd as a cheat code rather than going all-out with ring psychology and traditional tag action.

That’s not a negative, but it did inform what unfolded next. The plunder brawl was steaming along like any other WWE street fight/no-DQ/hardcore match in predictable fashion – brawl in the crowd, use trash cans and kendo sticks, break a table or two – until Orton went on a tear and then Owens decided to drop Tama Tonga with an avalanche Fisherman’s Buster through a bunch of chairs.

That brought things up for the reveal of Tonga Loa as the newest member of the Bloodline, paving the way for Tama and Solo Sikoa to get the win. It was a solid match with a really good finishing sequence, which is enough for passing marks here, but again won’t be something many will go back and rewatch with great anticipation.

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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.