WWE Clash Of Champions 2016: 10 Things WWE Got Right
9. Opening The Show With The Tag-Team Title Match
Seemingly since the dawn of time, tag-team matches have been an excellent way to open shows. There's something exciting about seeing multiple wrestlers flying around the place, the addition of more bodies means there's always something going on inside the ring. The New Day vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson was given the nod at Clash Of Champions.
Coming out of the heel victory on the Kickoff show, fans needed something to get them up and interested. The New Day were the perfect tonic for that, Big E's usual introduction had people smiling and excited to get stuck into the pay-per-view properly.
Best of all, the actual match itself was well-worked and paced. The speed quickened as the clash moved closer to the end, adding a sense of anticipation to proceedings. By contrast, even a decent match like the WWE Cruiserweight Title affair would have struggled to open Clash Of Champions like the WWE Tag-Team Title encounter did.
Backlash used the same multi-wrestler formula to great effect (opening with a Six-Pack Challenge involving the women on the brand), and it truly is a winning way of doing things.