7 Ups And 10 Downs From WWE Fastlane 2019

4. Contrived And Overbooked

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We already covered just how ridiculous the McMahon involvement and last-minute changes to the matches were, but the overbooking of the matches themselves was just nuts.

Consider that four of the 10 matches that took place involved post-match shenanigans. The first two of the PPV featured a heel turn breaking up a tag team, and then another tag team teasing a breakup in the very next match. The other two tag team matches also had post-match beatdowns by the (a) losing team.

Throw in the two matches that were changed and the one that was added, and a women’s match that ended in a contrived DQ and you have a really weak PPV. Sure, several of the matches were fine, but the booking was just really overdone, almost to hide some inadequacy.

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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.