WWE Fastlane 2019: Star Ratings For All 10 Matches
6. The Revival Vs. Aleister Black & Ricochet Vs. Chad Gable & Bobby Roode - RAW Tag Team Title Match
In which a sort of pedantry creeps into this critique, which we're sure will go down well.
This was obviously really, really good. Any match involving Ricochet and his jaw-dropping aerial game guarantees a certain adrenaline-triggering excitement. Most WWE multi-man matches, with their assorted last-ditch tropes, guarantee a certain level of drama.
But shouldn’t it have been better?
It was a bit…spotty. The Revival won, but they seemed to be in the right place, at the right time, to escape—and that is the right word—with the RAW Tag Team Titles. All six of these men starred in NXT, but this match never reached the stratospheric heights of the black and gold brand standard. It didn’t blow your t*ts off, like Halftime Heat did, nor did it resonate as the sort of thoughtful, strategic triumph that Scott Dawson and Dah Wilder crafted at the peak of their powers.
It didn’t help, either, that they made a mess of the big spot, in which Ricochet looked to have hurt himself far more than the tumbling field following an ugly hurricanrana that took an eternity to set up. He recovered to land a breathtaking, over-the-ring-post plancha—but this was only excellent in patches.
The finish in contrast followed far too quickly, insomuch that it felt anticlimactic.
Star Rating: ***1/2