WWE's 2018 PPV Endings Ranked From Worst To Best

12. Backlash - The Traffic Starts Early

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What Happened: Roman Reigns spears his way through WWE's supposed superstar-making soup-can of the month Samoa Joe to stay on course for Brock Lesnar - again - at Greatest Royal Rumble.

Despite his surprise failure to take the Universal Championship at WrestleMania, it was entirely evident that WWE were still persisting with the doomed Roman Reigns project. Jaded fans, wishing they'd just get the heck on with it once and for all, knew full-well Joe was positioned as nothing more than a makeweight, a temporary time-filler before Reign's junket in Jeddah. And those in Newark's Prudential Center let WWE know it.

Perhaps their response to Backlash's irrelevant main-event wouldn't have been quite so bitter had it not been quite so boring. The inevitable "CM Punk" chants only died away when swathes of seats began to empty as fans hightailed it to beat the traffic. When a show's headline attraction is skippable, you know it's not good.

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