5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (31 Mar - Results & Review)

4. Bron Doesn’t Have Any Breaks

A couple of disclaimers: multi-man matches are a form of lazy booking, and using miscommunication spots to set up said multi-man matches often looks contrived.

That said, Penta and Bron Breakker were destined to end their brief tenure as a tag team in a collision. Sure enough, that came to a head during their match against the Judgment Day, which saw Breakker eyeing Finn Balor for a spear, but Balor moved and Bron flattened Penta. This allowed Finn to nail Coup de Grace to hand Penta his first pinfall loss in WWE.

Getting Penta’s first loss out of the way in a tag match was a decent move, as he’s established himself pretty well this past couple of months, so beating him here wasn’t going to hurt him or his aura. Now it’s out of the way, and fans can ditch any talk of an undefeated streak.

But one thing that was pretty entertaining was Breakker plowing recklessly into Penta. It fits Bron’s character and the nature of his spear. WWE has made such a big deal of how fast he runs, so it’s actually reasonable to surmise that he will occasionally miss his target and hit a ringpost, a referee, or a tag partner.

The backstage interaction, with Penta immediately calling Bron stupid before Breakker could apologize, also was well done, because Bron looked like he was going to say he was sorry, but the minute Penta launched into his tirade, the Intercontinental Champion binned that and got in the luchador’s face.

Decent stuff here, even if it’s still leading to another multi-man title match.