WWE Raw's #UltimateDELETION - Review & Reaction

Jeremy Borash finding his way onto WWE's books this year may have been why the trip to the Hardy Compound was substantially more satisfying than WWE's wretched effort with The New Day and The Wyatt Family. That felt like a direct (and woefully mishandled) response to Matt's hijinks on the other channel. With all the wrong people either side of the lens, it was a catastrophe. Bray's approach to the H-adorned iron gates already carried with it an ambience anything the company were able to craft in 2016's six-man sand-fight.

Wyatt's misguided smile was - for a change - not a failure on his part to effectively emote. It suited the mayhem already afoot. Vanguard 001 scanned him over, identifying him as an intruder which afforded him more heft as an actual threat than he's had since Randy Orton left him laying in his own insect projections at WrestleMania 33.

And why would Bray be scared? This was at last a world he could be at ease in. He followed Reby Sky's haunting piano refrain to the same makeshift ring Matt began his infamous #FinalDeletion of brother Jeff in back in 2016. Much like that contest, this was subversively the silliest bit of all. Locking up, chasing pinfalls and running ropes in Matt's garden only made them look like the trampolining home video stars from the Hardy brothers' own back catalogues. Matt's initiation of the 'Boomstick Protocol' (firework display) to distract a chair-wielding Wyatt was at long last the point where the match actually began to make sense.

The use of pyro at all at least revealed that WWE had financially gone all in on the insanity. (CONT...)