WWE Backlash 2018: Every Match Ranked From Worst To Best

Who booked this garbage?

WWE Backlash 2018 Nakamura AJ Styles
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Well, that sure was a PPV alright. Though there was certainly on-paper potential for this year's Backlash to deliver a solid night of wrestling even in spite of its inevitable predictability, WWE once again settled for mostly bland, uninteresting in-ring action, alongside two matches that were legitimately rather bad.

There was only a single match on the nine-bout card that was anything beyond decent, which given the talent involved is just embarrassing. As usual, nonsensical booking is the main culprit, though a number of the show's strongest talents were clearly phoning their work in - presumably because they didn't much care for the booking either - which certainly didn't help.

Nobody was expecting Backlash to set the WWE Universe on fire, but was this lazy, low-effort filler fare really the best they could come up with? While there have certainly been worse PPVs over the years, there are few in recent memory that have seen WWE acting so aggressively against both their own interests and also basic logic...

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