8 WWE Fastlane 2021 Impulse Reactions
3. Drew McIntyre Vs Sheamus
The WWE Universe weren't "showing their love", as the cretinous Byron Saxton noted during the looping of the This-Is-Awesome wav file, but they probably would have at least given polite applause for yet another hard-hitting clash between the former friends.
This couldn't quite reach the heights of their double-stairs Raw draw, nor the straight singles one from the week before, but that's the price the poor wrestlers have to pay for WWE's repetitive booking.
It was, however, extremely good and the best thing on the show up to this point by a wide margin. At the risk of sounding like a Samoa Joe commentary soundboard, the two seem to really enjoy convincingly beating the hell out of each other, and this was another mostly absorbing example of that.
WWE gave them the entire ThunderDome to work with, even loading some of those zoom screens with more explosives that AEW's ring at the end of Revolution. The bells and whistles were a welcome accoutrement, all the way through to the very end. McIntyre using a broken piece of table to hit his Futureshock DDT on was in keeping with the brawl's jagged vibe, even if the Claymore proffered the cleanest of wins.
Really, really good and in the face of having its stakes stolen just days earlier, both men should be commended for making this entire feud work as well as it did.