8 WWE The Horror Show At Extreme Rules Impulse Reactions

5. Apollo Crews (c) Vs. MVP...Didn't Happen

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Ahead of The Horror Show At Extreme Rules, Apollo Crews hadn't appeared on screen with his own title due to the weird weird state of the world, with MVP looking so much the part with the new United States Championship that it was easy to visualise him eventually reclaiming it for the first time in over 11 years.

Then, with the champion nowhere in suggt, the company just made it so.

The commentary team noted that Crews had failed his medical thanks to injuries sustained by Bobby Lashley, so Porter awarded himself the title in more official terms and everybody just...accepted it.

Lashley/Crews will probably still be good, if indeed that happens at SummerSlam, or if it's for a title. The company - on the show at least - were frustratingly unclear with their messaging.

It was really weird, but the announcers were about to spend the better part of half an hour talking about one guy pulling out another's eye, so the scale of the supposed switch barely registered.

 
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