Part of the problem with a placeholder show like Fastlane is that you get some matches that are clearly on the card merely to set up a rematch at WrestleMania. And thus, you get some screwy finishes that leave things unsettled. Goldust rolled up Stardust pretty cleanly, right? Uh, no. For whatever reason, the referee managed to not make a clean three-count. Dean Ambrose got himself disqualified in a horrible ending to his Intercontinental Championship match against Bad News Barrett. Paige lost her Divas Championship title match to Nikki Bella due to a rollup with tights. After Lana entered the ring, Rusev kicked John Cena below the belt to win his match. All four pairings will likely be retread for WrestleMania. This begs the argument from the get-go: If this is what youre going to do for your February PPV, then why bother having a February PPV in the first place?
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.
