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Now that more than a week removed from Backlash, I wanted to give some opinions on it and discuss some talking points as we head into Money in the Bank season. I’ve been doing some traveling, so I won’t be going over Raw and Smackdown Live this week, but check back next week!
I have heard some say that Backlash was the worst pay-per-view of the year. Now, I’m not sure that I’d go that far. The matches were good, not great. The stories were mostly weak, aside from a few former champions requesting rematches. And that was about it. The worst part of this pay-per-view to me was the order of the matches.
Think about it. You have a one-on-one for no title, and that is your main event over you World Championship title? And not just that, AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura, in the only match of the night with stipulations and for the largest title, didn’t even make the second place spot. They were third to last. Third to last? What message is that sending? To me, the card would’ve been better served being in complete reverse of how it went.
Seth Rollins has been the Intercontinental Champion now for almost a month. He has managed to successfully defend the title at least three times and he is on fire right now. It would have been fantastic to have Rollins and Miz take the main event slot and let Roman and Joe open the show. To put Roman in the top spot with the match lacking all of the elements already mentioned, it becomes even more obvious that they are pushing Roman.
Another thing to consider was if there were just too many pay-per-view events in a row that we became burned out. I know it’s difficult to keep the caliber of matches as high as we got for WrestleMania and the Greatest Royal Rumble, and I think that may have affected how I felt watching Backlash. All together, Backlash was a fine pay-per-view. The matches were good, even with lacking story-lines. I think it is safe to consider Backlash as a stepping stone heading toward Money in the Bank and to get us back on a monthly pay-per-view schedule.
