6 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Fastlane 2021

Downs…

7. Rollups Galore

Rik Bugez
WWE

If you turned on Fastlane and watched the first hour, you probably felt like WWE had one trick up its finisher sleeve, and it was going to ride it to death.

The WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship, the Intercontinental Championship, and the 24/7 Championship (yes those title switches actually happened in canon) matches featured four(!) straight rollups. Sure, the 24/7 title almost exclusively changes hands via rollup, and this was within an Old Spice commercial (there’s a sentence you never thought you’d read), but if that was going to happen, then why have the first two matches, both for titles, end on rollups as well?

You would think that having a dozen agents backstage would lead to WWE avoiding something like this, but no. We started the PPV with rollup-a-palooza. Thankfully, there were no more rollups on the show, but this was a noticeable issue.

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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.