Just three weeks after Payback, WWE was back on pay-per-view for Extreme Rules – a show that at least looked good on paper, even if the top three matches were all rematches.
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Payback… is a bitch. At least, that’s how the saying goes. This year’s show was shuffled to be the post-WrestleMania pay-per-view, much like Backlash and Extreme Rules. However, 2016’s Payback featured a card that, on paper, looked to be WrestleMania level, especially with the introduction of new faces.
Immediately after WWE’s Payback event on Sunday, the WWE Network was host to the debut episode of their new animated comedy, “Camp WWE”.
It’s WrestleMania Sunday! And you know what that means… the biggest WrestleMania in history, which ended up being the longest WrestleMania in History. And Good Lord, it sure felt like it by the end!
WrestleMania weekend officially starts in the ring tonight, and BackBodyDrop.com – in conjunction with Wrestling-Online.com – brought you live coverage of an early candidate for show-of-the-year: NXT Takeover in Dallas, TX.
Saturday night saw the WWE hold another Network-special, with a house show in Toronto being turned into their first-ever “Roadblock” event. With WrestleMania three weeks away, it was intended to be nothing more than a distraction, but there was some hope going in that this would reshape WrestleMania. In the end, it was just another house show, with a pretty good main event.
Sunday night saw WWE complete their final pay-per-view before WrestleMania, with a Fast Lane pay-per-view that was notable for… very little, actually. The bookies (or at least, 888sport) had the results right in all-but-one match – and for someone notoriously awful at pay-per-view predictions, I came out 100% with my winners!
So, the first pay-per-view of 2016 is in the books, and WWE has a new champion. Perhaps the biggest surprise on Sunday was that the company kept their surprises limited to two: a debut, and the new champion.