WWE also booked themselves into a corner because Owens should not have survived longer than Lesnar at Survivor Series. Firstly, killing time over the course of the night with meaningless matches and segments so the show could end right at three hours made it painfully apparent how long the title match would last. Goldberg capturing the championship wasn't the issue as much as it was how it happened.
Goldberg Captures Universal Championship in Predictable Fashion It would have meant more had Bayley won the championship at Fastlane or WrestleMania, where the end of Charlotte's streak would have come with the most fanfare. Bayley then went on to hand Charlotte her first defeat on pay-per-view, shocking the wrestling world in the process. Oddly enough, the match wasn't thrown out even after Banks made physical contact with Charlotte at ringside. If nothing else, a count-out or disqualification win would have ensured the best of both worlds. Most fans weren't ecstatic over the idea of Bayley losing the title so soon at Fastlane, but it was what should have happened so Charlotte could go into WrestleMania with her streak intact. She extended her streak with another victory at the Royal Rumble before dropping the title to Bayley on a random Raw show in February. Once she beat Sasha Banks for the Raw Women's Championship as many times as she did on the grand stage, WWE might as well have gone all the way with it. Charlotte Flair's Storied Streak Prematurely Comes to an End They saved the 'Taker and Reigns faceoff for Raw the next night but missed a golden opportunity Sunday. The most obvious route to take would have been Undertaker costing Reigns the match and allowing Strowman to score the victory. He did not need to be beaten in clean fashion via pinfall when it would have been significantly easier to go with a non-finish. Strowman was by no means "buried" by Reigns at Fastlane, and he can still be a big star, but the follow-up is key. The Mountain of a Man should have remained undefeated for a while longer, at least until WrestleMania. Granted, Reigns is coming off three straight losses on pay-per-view, but he needed a win at Fastlane far less than Strowman. To cut that hot momentum short in favor of Reigns picking up a win was foolish regardless of who Reigns faces at the upcoming event. Braun Strowman needed to happen at Fastlane in the first place.įor months, Strowman has been built as a dominant threat on Raw and has actually shown signs of immense improvement as a performer. Henceforth, there was no real reason why Reigns vs. It was evident from the moment Roman Reigns eliminated The Undertaker from the Royal Rumble match that those two were on a collision course toward WrestleMania.
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