9 Live Observations From WWE WrestleMania 38 Night 2
8. RK-Bro (c) Vs. The Street Profits Vs. Alpha Academy
The Randy Orton hot tag, live, is a thing of beauty.
Hot tag, but not a hot take. Nonetheless, this article is about live observations and that’s the main takeaway from RK-Bro and indeed the reason the company have kept the belts on Randy Orton and Riddle instead of expediting their inevitable split.
Other than that, what else was there to discern from this opener?
This match was good throughout and great in places but what can be said about Raw’s version of the 2002 SmackDown Six by this point? Rotations of these and select others in the Monday night doubles division have been having rippers for weeks and this was no different. Orton caught Gable with an RKO as he flew down from the top rope in a spot you can picture but still impresses all the same. Gable Steveson was back again afterwards, but the response to his suplex on Chad Gable was tepid thanks to a limp build the night prior.
Living up to expectations warrants praise, but truthfully the pairings have had better matches on the red brand than on ‘The Grandest Stage’. That happens when you hire tremendous wrestlers but tell nonexistent stories.
More on that later.