In case I didn't do it justice, the opening segment was long. First Vince spoke, then Stephanie spoke, then Shane spoke. Then Stephanie and Shane argued, then Stephanie got mad and left. After that, Vince and Shane talked for a while, then argued, and finally, the challenge was made. After all that, it was high time for a commercial break. By the time the show came back on it was well past the half-hour mark, and the show's opening bout - Neville and The Lucha Dragons versus The New Day - started at 8:39. With 40 minutes of McMahon nonsense before any in-ring action, it felt like 2000 all over again. Thankfully, the opening bout turned out to be really good (even though they had to cram two more commercial breaks into it). After some crazy high-flying from Neville and the Dragons, Kofi Kingston scored the pin on Sin Cara.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
