7 Match Star Ratings For WWE WrestleMania 37 - Night 2
6. Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler Vs. Natalya & Tamina - Women's Tag Team Title Match
The crowd was dead.
In killing them with the unspeakable Fiend sh*t, what WWE conspired to accomplish here was making a group of prisoners resent being set free. Here's another lesson: when it comes to WWE, you can never be too cynical. Of course they made the first set of fans in over a year chant for CM Punk. Of course they did. Then, in a nice, strange development one would hope wasn't ironic, they got behind Tamina!
F*ck the opener. This was real sorcery.
Think about how little fans have cared about Tamina over the years. Then think about how much that would gnaw at a person's confidence and self-worth. Everybody knows her continuing feature role is inexplicable, but this was simply a nice thing that happened: small reward for a long, hard travelling life.
The match wasn't particularly good. The grinding babyface double team was an oxymoron of a sequence. When they worked over Shayna Baszler, they did it very slowly and tediously. But Tamina did break up a pin at more or less the last moment. There was *some* drama here. It went an insane amount of time, at 14 minutes, but they got the crowd into it.
It was a nice time, if not a particularly good match. It was chaotic, they whiffed air on an actual tag, and there was a longer waiting time for a cross body than there was to get fans back at a WWE show. The halfway respectable final two minutes were undermined by Natalya looking as dumb as f*ck by the finish, but that sort of thing barely even registers anymore, does it?
The Coen Brothers write smarter characters than this.
Star Rating: ★★½