7 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Extreme Rules 2018

6. Paying Off A Storyline

There’s an easy argument to make against perennial jobbers-turned-contenders The B-Team winning the Raw Tag Team Championships at Extreme Rules. It kinda devalues the titles for a duo who lost every match until they suddenly started stumbling into wins to capture the belts.

At the same time, Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas made it clear that they were reinventing themselves after The Miz was drafted to SmackDown, and they started winning immediately. Say what you will about how they won, they won and got themselves into position for a title shot.

Bray Wyatt and Woken Matt Hardy have been doing much of nothing with the titles in recent months, as it felt like the writers had lost interest in the quirky duo. The B-Team’s tale of lovable losers making it to a title match would have felt incomplete without them capturing gold.

Now, the smart way to go here would be for someone like the Authors of Pain to run over them, allowing Dallas and Axel to serve as transitional champs, and then the Deleters of Worlds could vie for the titles against AOP. That would be an intriguing matchup.