6 Ups And 10 Downs From WWE Fastlane 2016

by Scott Carlson

1. No Style Clash

The minute it was announced, fans knew that AJ Styles versus Chris Jericho had the potential to be a show-stealing classic. And they were not disappointed.

Styles and Jericho tore down the house in a barnburner of a match that pitted two fan-favorites against each other in the rubber match between them (btw, not all rubber matches are bad). Fans responded with dueling chants for both wrestlers as they traded rollups, countered springboards with other springboards and combated finishing moves with other finishing moves. Jericho spent much of the match slapping Styles around and trash-talking, but AJ let his fists and feet do his talking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKaiJjs5D18

In the end, Jericho kicked out of a Styles Clash (the only real blemish to the match €“ having Styles finisher being diminished this early in his WWE run), but AJ quickly transitioned to the Calf Crusher for the submission victory. This match alone was worth the $9.99 for the PPV.

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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.