6 Things WWE Got Right At Fastlane 2017

by John Bills

1. Chris Jericho Costs KO The Universal Championship

Chris Jericho
WWE

The Fastlane 2017 main event was only ever going to go one of two ways. The optimistic fans believed that Goldberg was going to wrestle a 10-minute match for the first time in almost 13 years, and the Universal Championship match was going to end up resembling an Attitude Era main event with interference-a-plenty.

WWE decided to go the other way and have Goldberg squash Kevin Owens in 22 seconds and become only the third WWE Universal Champion in history. This means that Goldberg is going to go on to main event WrestleMania with just five minutes and eight seconds worth of wrestling under his belt in 13 years, three minutes of which came in the Royal Rumble match.

The one positive to come out of this was the return of Chris Jericho, ostensibly costing Owens the championship he was only clinging on to all along. This sets in motion the real build towards Jericho and Owens at WrestleMania 33, a match which could well end up being the show's finest. The video package alone promises to be a thing of beauty.

Jericho distracting Owens long enough for the inevitable to happen gives the former champion something to complain about moving forward, and Jericho 'costing' Owens the championship after helping him retain it for so long was the right move without doubt.

WWE Fastlane 2017 was a show full of immensely frustrating booking and good wrestling that didn't matter at all. Even the most pessimistic of fans can find positives in the show, but needless to say the Road to WrestleMania experienced a bump and a half in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.