WWE Fastlane 2019: Star Ratings For All 10 Matches
2. Becky Lynch Vs. Charlotte Flair
A very strange and divisive glorified angle, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch performed their roles well enough in what was the abject result of convoluted over-booking. Flair stuck her tongue out, relishing the in-built advantage, and Lynch sold her knee credibly—particularly with a helpless, flailing somersault chop-block bump—but the finish missed the mark entirely, castrating The Man in the process.
Lynch performed her comeback spots well—a not inconsiderable achievement, really, but none of this mattered. WWE got it backwards; to inspire belief in Becky, Ronda Rousey should have interfered as Becky applied the Disarm Her. This deprivation would have galvanised the crowd into support without making Flair do the job, as opposed to wide-scale bemusement.
Instead, she assaulted Lynch when Lynch was trapped in the Figure Eight. Lynch, helpless, requited help to get to New Jersey. She has entered the title picture through the back door. Again.
Isn’t this exactly why she hates Charlotte?
One-dimensional in a logical if not exactly stirring way before that dismal decision, WWE is in danger of complicating the whole storyline through, ironically, the most simplistic and uninspiring of babyface tropes.
Star Rating: *1/2