After Daniel Bryan, Triple H and the aforementioned icons all went slightly over with the content and banter respectively, The Shield's win over the Authority's B-Team had to be abbreviated to ensure everything else on the card got all the time required. There was, remarkably, such a time when such trivialities were paid attention to.
Matches getting sliced in half often feel lesser than, but the Road Dogg, Billy Gunn and Kane getting put to the sword was a confident case of addition by subtraction. Hugely over as faces ahead of their official turn just 24 hours later, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose pasted the heel goons with exacting ease.
'The Hounds Of Justice' were leagues above their opposition before, during and after this feud. A run-time beyond the 2:56 given would have bordered on unbelievable.
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