7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Backlash 2023 (Review)

by Scott Carlson

1. Bunnies Can Fly

Bad Bunny Damian Priest
WWE.com

Bad Bunny deserves a mountain of credit for his work in Saturday’s street fight against Damian Priest at Backlash.

Bunny very easily could have leaned on plunder and outside interference to limit his involvement or lessen the number of bumps he took, but in addition to all of that, he actually wrestled a really physical and convincing match. Seconds into the match, he hit a shock Michinoku Driver and we were off to the races.

Priest all but had it won with a South of Heaven, but he pulled Bunny up. Bunny made him pay shortly after with a tornado DDT and Falcon Arrow. The two fought into the crowd, where Damian hit a Broken Arrow off a stack of cases through several tables. Bunny would get the upper hand and key in on an injured leg, which gave us the rare situation of a celebrity working a body part in a garbage brawl, but again, it worked well.

And of course, we get the full array of Bad Bunny highspots, including a Sliced Bread #2 and a Canadian (Puerto Rican?) Destroyer for the win. Tremendous fun and just a great example of a celebrity coming in and just going all-in on being part of the action and not just a spectator to it all.

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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.