7 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Extreme Rules 2022

2. It Keeps Going And Going And Going…

Edge Finn Balor
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We’ll get to the last five minutes of the I Quit match in a bit, but holy hell, what a snoozefest the first 25 minutes were.

Edge and Finn Balor brawled all over the arena, into the stands and back to ringside, with the story clearly being that Edge would not submit no matter how much physical damage was inflicted upon him.

The problem is, that story took forever to tell. It moved so slowly and just dragged. The crowd was all but lost for much of this part of the bout. Asking whether Edge quit after a slingblade on the floor was a bit silly, and stuff like that only helped grind it to a halt.

So yeah, we’ll give kudos later, but if they had lopped about 10 minutes off the first part, this would have been much better. Instead, we’ve got to deduct some points here.

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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.