7 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Extreme Rules 2018

4. Wasting A Reunion

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If you didn’t want Team Hell No to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championships, then there was a better way to do things Sunday night.

The pre-match attack that took out Kane was a good start, but then Kane entered the match and managed to even the odds before Daniel Bryan was felled in part by a blind tag. After a low blow in the United States Championship match and a shark cage being used as a weapon in the SmackDown Women’s Championship, this felt like a waste of a match.

Team Hell No could have come out normally for the match and lost clean, then used the pre-match beating to get a rematch. But taking a former top star and having him pinned while the guy wearing a walking boot is on the outside just felt dumb.

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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.